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Tokowicz, Natasha

Research Scientist, Project Director
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
PhD, The Pennsylvania State University


Contact:
634 LRDC
412-624-7026
412-624-9149
tokowicz@pitt.edu
http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/ReadLab/bios/tokowicz.html
http://www.pitt.edu/~PLUMLab/
 

Research Interests: Adult second language learning, bilingualism, within and cross-language lexical ambiguity, semantic representation within and across languages.

Projects/Labs

• Reading and Language Group
• Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC)
• Psycho-Linguistic Underpinnings of Multilingualism (PLUM)

Publications

• Tokowicz, N., & Warren, T. (in press). Beginning adult L2 learners’ sensitivity to morphosyntactic violations: A self-paced reading study. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology.
• Tokowicz, N. & Warren, T. (2008). Quantification and statistics in the study of bilingualism. In L. Wei & M. Moyer (Eds.), The Blackwell guide to research methods in bilingualism. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
• Kroll, J. F., & Tokowicz, N. (2005). Models of bilingual representation and processing: Looking back and to the future. In J. F. Kroll & A. M. B. De Groot (Eds.), Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches (pp. 531-553). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Tokowicz, N., & MacWhinney, B. (2005). Implicit and explicit measures of sensitivity to violations in second language grammar: An event-related potential investigation. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 27, 173-204.
• Tokowicz, N., & Perfetti, C. A. (2005). Introduction to part II: Comprehension. In J. F. Kroll & A. M. B. De Groot (Eds.), Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches (pp. 173-177). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Tokowicz, N., Michael, E. B., & Kroll, J. F. (2004). The roles of study-abroad experience and working-memory capacity in the types of errors made during translation. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 7, 255-272.
• Kroll, J. F., Michael, E., Tokowicz, N., & Dufour, R. (2002). The development of lexical fluency in a second language. Second Language Research, 18, 137-171.
• Tokowicz, N., Kroll, J. F., De Groot, A. M. B., & Van Hell, J. G. (2002). Number-of-translation norms for Dutch-English translation pairs: A new tool for examining language production. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 34, 435-451.
• Tokowicz, N., Kroll, J. F., De Groot, A. M. B., & Van Hell, J. G. (2002). Number-of-translation norms for Dutch-English translation pairs: A new tool for examining language production. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 34, 435-451.
• Kroll, J. F., & Tokowicz, N. (2001). The development of conceptual representation for words in a second language. In J. L. Nicol (Ed.), One mind, two languages: Bilingual language processing (pp. 49-71). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

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Honors and Awards

• Women in Cognitive Science Travel Award(2004
• Individual Post-doctoral National Research Service Award (2002-2003)

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