Language Acquisition Research Center, Hunter College

Collaborators

Lidiya Tornyova

Graduate student

Lidiya Tornyova is pursuing a doctoral degree in the Linguistics Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her primary interest is the acquisition of syntax. Lidiya is currently conducting an elicited imitation study of the production of wh- and yes/no questions by 2-year-old English-speaking children, for her dissertation which focuses on young children's acquisition of questions in English and Bulgarian.

Nancy Eng

Associate Professor

Nancy Eng is an Associate Professor at Hunter College in the Department of Communication Sciences. She is a licensed speech/language pathologist who has worked almost exclusively with bilingual (Chinese/English) speakers presenting with a wide range of language and communication disorders. Her research interests include the translation skills in typically developing bilingual children; the impairment of translation abilities following brain injury; the manifestation of language impairment in speakers of Chinese; reading and reading disabilities in bi-script readers; acquisition of lexical tone in typical and atypical speakers of Chinese.