Liberal Arts and Sciences
Treadway Lab
Led by Hannah Treadway · Psychology(unverified)
What we study
The Treadway Lab studies bilingual language processing. Recent student projects use eye-tracking during reading and listening to see how community code-switching norms and a speaker's perceived accent affect Spanish-English bilinguals' comprehension.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Computational
- Human participants
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
Current projects
Perceived Accent Affects Code-switching in Spanish-English
The lab looks at how a Spanish speaker’s accent changes how bilinguals switch between Spanish and English in a sentence. Students will listen to speakers with different accents and track eye movements to see how expectations of language switches change.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 549
The influence of community-specific code-switching norms on online comprehension in early Spanish-English bilinguals
The lab examined whether bilingual readers use the frequency of local code‑switching patterns to understand sentences faster. The student ran an eye‑tracking reading task with 24 mixed‑language sentences and will compare responses for different switch locations and verb types.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 365
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
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