PRESENTATIONS
Peer reviewed presentations
Sheng, L., Bedore, L., & Peña, E. D. (2009, June). Depth of semantic knowledge in Spanish-English bilingual children with specific language impairment. Poster presented at the 29th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
Sheng, L., Bedore, L., & Peña, E. D. (2008, December). Lexical-semantic organization in Spanish-English bilingual children. Talk presented at the Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood, Hong Kong, China.
Sheng, L. (2008, November). Semantic representation in bilinguals. Talk presented at the annual convention of the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.
Sheng, L., and McGregor, K. K. (2008, June). Lexical retrieval and semantic organization in children with and without SLI. Poster presented at the 29th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
Sheng, L., and McGregor, K. K. (2008, June). The effects of word class, word frequency, and lexical neighborhood density on normal and impaired word retrieval. Poster presented at the 29th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
Sheng, L., and McGregor, K. K. (2007, June). Lexical-semantic organization in children with specific language impairment. Poster presented at the 28th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
Sheng, L., McGregor, K. K., and Marian, V. (2007, March). Bilingualism promotes semantic organization and cognitive flexibility: Evidence from word association and nonverbal classification. Talk presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Boston, MA.
McGregor, K. K., Sheng, L., and Ball, T. (2006, July). Complexities of word learning over time. Talk presented at the Child Language Seminar, New Castle, UK.
Sheng, L., McGregor, K. K., and Marian, V. (2006, May) Cognitive flexibility in bilingual children. Poster presented at the Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Sheng, L., McGregor, K. K., and Marian, V. (2005, July). Bilingual and monolingual semantic development: Evidence from a repeated word association task. Talk presented at the 10th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, Germany.
McGregor, K. K., Sheng, L., Graham, A., Riley, K. G., and Keegan, M. (2004, November). The role of frequency and context in learning the phonology and semantics of words. Talk presented at the annual convention of the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association.
Sheng, L., McGregor, K. K., Marian, V., and Grohne, K. (2004, June). Semantic organization in young Mandarin-English bilingual children: L1, L2 and best performance. Poster presented at the 25th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
Sheng, L., Marian, V., McGregor, K. K., and Grohne, K. (2004, May). Semantic organization in bilinguals and monolinguals: Is there a bilingual advantage? Poster presented at the 16th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.
McGregor, K. K., Sheng, L., and Smith, B. (2003, July). Individual differences in adherence to lexical principles at age two. Poster presented at the Child Language Seminar, New Castle, UK.
Marian, V., Faroqi-Shah, Y., Sheng, L., Shildkrot, E., and Hirsch, J. (2002, August). One brain, two languages: Cortical similarities and differences in bilinguals. Poster presented at the 2002 Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Sheng, L., Xu, Y., and McGregor, K. K. (2002, May). Prosodic and lexical-syntactic aspects of the therapeutic register. Poster presented at the 9th Conference of International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, Hong Kong, China.
Marian, V., Sheng, L., and Faroqi-Shah, Y. (2002, May). An fMRI study of language and hemispheric organization during semantic, phonological, and orthographic processing in bilinguals. Poster presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Marian, V., Faroqi-Shah, Y., and Sheng, L. (2002, May). Cortical organization of first and second languages in bilinguals: examining centers of activation in the inferior frontal gyrus. Poster presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Invited presentations
McGregor, K. K., and Sheng, L. (2003, September-December). The precocious two year old: Status of the lexicon and links to the grammar. Invited paper presented at: South Bank University, London; University of New Castle upon Tyne, New Castle; University College, London; Reading University, Reading; and University of Oxford, Oxford, England.
Sheng, L., and Reilly, R.M. (2003, March). Cultural differences and the practice of speech-language pathology. Invited presentation to Niles Township Department of Special Education, Morton Grove, IL.
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