Gretchen Sunderman

Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Professor

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Contact Information

Office Location
Diffenbaugh 324
Program
Linguistics
Spanish
Hispanic Linguistics (MA and PhD)
Office Hours

Monday 9-11 a.m.

About

Gretchen Sunderman is a professor of Spanish and linguistics and associate chair for Undergraduate Studies.

The bilingual lexicon

Psycholinguistic approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Inhibitory control in bilingual production

Individual difference in language processing

  • Linck, J. A., Schwieter, J. W., & Sunderman, G. (2020). The Differential Role of Executive Functions in the Cognitive Control of Language Switching. Languages, 5(2), 19. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages5020019
  • Wood, C., Fitton, L., Petscher, Y., Rodriguez, E., Sunderman, G., & Lim, T. (2018). The Effect of Ebook Vocabulary Instruction on Spanish-English Speaking Children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61, 1945-1969.
  • Leeser, M., & Sunderman, G. (2016). Methodological Issues of Working Memory Tasks for L2 Processing Research. In G. Granena, D.O. Jackson, & Y. Yilmaz (Eds.), Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition (pp. 89-104). John Benjamins.
  • Rodriguez, E., Sunderman, G., & Wood, C. (2017). The Relationship between parental language dominance of heritage Spanish-speaking children and child performance in normative language assessment. Heritage Language Journal, 14, 264-287.
  • Sunderman, G. (2013). Translation Recognition Tasks. In Jill Jegerski, & Bill Van Patten (Eds.), Research Methods in Second Language Psycholinguistics (pp. 185-211). New York: Routledge.
  • Sunderman, G., & Priya, K. (2012). Translation recognition in highly proficient Hindi-English bilinguals: The influence of different scripts but connectable phonologies. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27, 1265-1285.
  • Sunderman, G. (2011). Conceptual Mediation in Second Language Learners: Evidence from False Memories. In Pavel Trofimovich, & Kim McDonough (Eds.), Applying Priming Methods to L2 Learning, Teaching and Research: Insights from Psycholinguistics (pp. 219-237). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Schwieter, J., & Sunderman, G. (2009). Concept selection and developmental effects in bilingual speech production. Language Learning, 59, 897-927.
  • Linck, J., Kroll, J. F., & Sunderman, G. (2009). Losing access to the native language while immersed in a second language: Evidence for the role of inhibition in second language learning. Psychological Science, 20, 1507-1515.
  • Sunderman, G., & Kroll, J. F. (2009). When study abroad experience fails to deliver: The internal resources threshold effect. Applied Psycholinguistics, 30, 1-21.
  • Sunderman, G., & Kroll, J. F. (2006). First language activation during second language lexical processing: An investigation of lexical form, meaning, and grammatical class. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 28, 387-422.
  • Kroll, J. F., & Sunderman, G. (2003). Cognitive processes in second language learners and bilinguals: The Development of Lexical and Conceptual Representations. In Cathy Doughty, & Michael Long (Eds.), Handbook of second language acquisition. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

Introduction to Linguistics

Psycholinguistics

Second Language Acquisition

Bilingualism

Child Language Acquisition