Publications

Exposure Matters: Effects of Current Language Exposure on Item-Level Measurement of Spanish and English Morphosyntax.

A. Choi-Tucci, J. H. Y. Lam, C. del C. Perez, M. Leachman, L. M. Bedore, E. D. Peña

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2026

Neural tracking of surprisal in Spanish-English bilingual children during naturalistic heritage language listening

Lauren K. Salig, Chi-Lin Yu, Molly Leachman, Nivedhitha {Dondati Purushotham}, Valeria Ortiz-Villalobos, Zahira Flores-Gaona, Viviana Vélez Negrón, Carla Girardini, Hsin-Yuan Fang, Alisa Baron, Lisa M. Bedore, James R. Booth, Elizabeth D. Peña, Teresa Satterfield, Jonathan R. Brennan, Ioulia Kovelman

Brain and Language, vol. 281, 2026, p. 105833

Developing listening comprehension through multi-component instruction: Results from the Story Detective intervention

Young-Suk Grace Kim, Molly Leachman, Sarah Herrera

Child Development, 2026 Jul, pp. aacag133

A meta-analysis of relationships between syntactic features and writing performance and how the relationships vary by student characteristics and measurement features.

J. Wang, Y.-S. G. Kim, J. H. Y. Lam, M. A. Leachman

Assessing Writing, 2025

Factor structure and longitudinal changes in bilinguals’ oral narratives production: role of language exposure, language-domain proficiency, and transfer.

J. H. Y. Lam, M. A. Leachman, C. D. C. Perez, A. S. Pratt, E. D. Peña, L. M. Bedore, R. B. Gillam

Applied Psycholinguistics, 2025

The relation between text reading and reading comprehension varies as a function of developmental phase, orthographic depth, and measurement characteristics: Evidence from a meta-analysis.

M. Leachman, A. Wolters, Y.-S. G. Kim