January 20, 2026
Congratulations to Anna Chrabaszcz and co-authors for receiving the Best Paper by An Untenured Scientist Prize from the Language Acquisition journal. Their paper "Acquisition of Russian Noun Case by Bilingual Children: Lexical Cues to Case Assignment in Real and Novel Words," examines the mechanisms of lexical case acquisition in Russian by looking at Russian children from two to five-years old and children who speak both Russian and English. The annual prize rece the best original research article written by an untenured scientist and is selected by the Language Acquisition Editorial Team.
Anna Chrabaszcz is an LRDC Research Associate interested in studying the normative and nonnormative aspects of language processing at different levels of linguistic analysis. She is interested in identifying where and why breakdowns in real-time language processing occur, as well as in elucidating the mechanisms that allow language users of nonnormative populations, such as bilinguals, young children, and individuals with large impairment, to overcome such difficulties.