Norielle Adricula,
Linguist and Cognitive Scientist
PhD Candidate and Researcher
I'm a joint PhD student in the Department of Linguistics and Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am interested in language, how people use language, and what language patterns can tell us about how the mind works. I examine what influences language users to choose one language form when they could have chosen a different form in another context. Furthermore, I am interested in how children acquire their first language(s) seemingly very effortlessly. Nerd out with me here!
Research Interests
I integrate the theoretical perspectives of linguistics and cognitive science to investigate linguistic choices in adult speakers of Tagalog (a Philippine symmetrical voice language), and child and adult speakers of English. I combine corpus analyses with psycholinguistic methods to investigate adults’ and children’s underlying conceptual representations and processes during language production and acquisition. I have published in the areas of Tagalog linguistics, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition.
Publications
Adricula, N. (submitted). Examining Voice Choice in Tagalog: A Corpus Study of Web-based Tagalog
Adricula, N. (2022). Examining the Tagalog Undergoer Voice Preference in the Context of Verbs and Referential Features. Colorado Research in Linguistics.
Adricula, N., & Narasimhan, B. (2020). ‘Understanding is Understanding by Seeing’: Visual Perception Verbs in Child Language. Proceedings of the 44th Boston University Conference on Language Development
Adricula, N., & Pielke, M. (2019). A Child's Acquisition of Polysemy: of, with, and by in Child English. Proceedings of the 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development