Kimberly Crespo

Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests

• Aspects of the bilingual environment that may have consequences for how language and cognition develop and operate
• The nature and developmental trajectory of language impairment in bilingual children
• Input factors (e.g., code-switch input; speaker variability) and cognitive factors (e.g., attention, cognitive control) that modulate how learners extract the meanings of words and find patterns in language

Selected Publications

Crespo, K., & Kaushanskaya, M. (2022). The role of attention, language ability and language experience in children’s artificial grammar learning. Journal of Speech Language Hearing Research, 65(4), 1574-1591.

Slawny, C., Crespo, K., Ellis Weismer, S. & Kaushanskaya, M. (2022). Social pragmatic communication and length of bilingualism predict executive function skills in bilingual children. Journal of Speech Language Hearing Research

Kaushanskaya, M., Crespo, K., & Neveu, A. (2022). Does switching languages carry costs to word learning? Developmental Science

Larson, C., Crespo, K., Kaushanskaya, R., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2022). Are items actively removed from working memory during free time in children with Developmental Language Disorder? International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders

Crespo, K., & Kaushanskaya, M. (2021). Is 10 better than 1? How do children accommodate speaker variability in word learning? Language Learning and Development

Neveu, A., Crespo, K., Gangopadhyay, I., Ellis Weismer, S., & Kaushanskaya, M. (2021). Dual-language immersion has minimal impact on children’s executive functioning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 208, 105127.

Larson, C., Crespo., K., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2021). Testing an interference-based model of working memory in children with developmental language disorder and their typically developing peers. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43 (43).

Kaushanskaya, M., & Crespo, K. (2019). Does exposure to code-switching influence language performance in bilingual children? Child Development, 1-11.

Crespo, K., Gross, M. & Kaushanskaya. M. (2019). The effects of dual language exposure on executive control in Spanish-English bilingual children with different language abilities. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 188, 1-19.

Awards
2022 Research Mentoring-Pair Travel Award, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association