{"id":593,"date":"2019-08-22T09:13:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T13:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/lamclab\/?page_id=593"},"modified":"2026-08-05T07:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:01:36","slug":"language-acquisition-multilingualism-and-cognition-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/lamclab\/language-acquisition-multilingualism-and-cognition-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Acquisition, Multilingualism, &amp; Cognition Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"593\" class=\"elementor elementor-593\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34d384c5 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"34d384c5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5500abff elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5500abff\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-764\" src=\"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/lamclab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/08\/LAM-C-logo-6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/lamclab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/08\/LAM-C-logo-6.png 799w, https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/lamclab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/08\/LAM-C-logo-6-768x335.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The\u00a0<strong>Language Acquisition, Multilingualism, and Cognition Laboratory<\/strong>\u00a0at Wilfrid Laurier University is an experimental research lab, directed by<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlu.ca\/academics\/faculties\/faculty-of-arts\/faculty-profiles\/john-w-schwieter\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. John W. Schwieter<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, which investigates how humans acquire and process more than one language.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the lab, we are proud to host\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bilingualism-matters.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Bilingualism Matters @ Laurier<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, the first\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilingualism-matters.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bilingualism Matters\u00a0<\/a>site in Canada.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Involvement in Externally-Funded Projects<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Using priming as a method to facilitate second language vocabulary acquisition<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 1rem;\">,\u201d funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Development Grant, 2024-2026.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 1rem;\">\u201cBilingualism matters in the Waterloo Region and Canada,\u201d funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Development Grant, 2019-2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cLanguage experience and linguistic skills among multilinguals in higher education,\u201d funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Development Grant, 2018-2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/wordsintheworld.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Words in the World<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">,\u201d funded by a\u00a0Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\u00a0Partnership Grant,\u00a02016-2022.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Language Acquisition, Multilingualism, and Cognition Laboratory\u00a0at Wilfrid Laurier University is an experimental research lab, directed by\u00a0Dr. John W. Schwieter, which investigates how humans acquire and process more than one language. In the lab, we are proud to host\u00a0Bilingualism Matters @ Laurier, the first\u00a0Bilingualism Matters\u00a0site in Canada.\u00a0 Involvement in Externally-Funded Projects &#8220;Using priming as a method &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/lamclab\/language-acquisition-multilingualism-and-cognition-laboratory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Language Acquisition, Multilingualism, &amp; Cognition Lab&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-593","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/lamclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/lamclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/lamclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/lamclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/lamclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/lamclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2040,"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/lamclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593\/revisions\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/lamclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}