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University of Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh, US

2024-09-01 to present | Associate Professor (Linguistics)
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Melinda Fricke

University of Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh, PA, US

2016-07-01 to 2024-08-31 | Assistant Professor (Linguistics)
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Melinda Fricke

Pennsylvania State University: University Park, PA, US

2013-08-01 to 2016-06-30 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Psychology, Center for Language Science)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of California, Berkeley: Berkeley, CA, US

2008-08-01 to 2013-07-31 | Ph.D. (Linguistics)
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Melinda Fricke

University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign, IL, US

2003-08-01 to 2007-05-31 | B.A. (Linguistics, French)
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Funding (3)

NSF-BSF: Collaborative Research: RI: Small: Multilingual Language Generation via Understanding of Code Switching

2020-10-01 to 2023-09-30 | Grant
Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (Arlington, US)
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The behavioral and neural basis of codeswitching: bilingual speech, executive control, and language processing

2016-07-01 to 2018-06-30 | Grant
Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (Arlington, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: 1723759
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The behavioral and neural basis of codeswitching: bilingual speech, executive control, and language processing

2014-07-01 to 2017-02-28 | Grant
Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (Arlington, US)
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Works (13)

Implementing the map task in applied linguistics research: What, how, and why

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
2023-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Juan Berríos; Angela Swain; Melinda Fricke
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Modulation of Cross-Language Activation During Bilingual Auditory Word Recognition: Effects of Language Experience but Not Competing Background Noise

Frontiers in Psychology
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Fricke, Melinda
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Speaker Information Can Guide Models to Better Inductive Biases: A Case Study On Predicting Code-Switching

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL), VOL 1: (LONG PAPERS)
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Ostapenko, Alissa; Wintner, Shuly; Fricke, Melinda; Tsvetkov, Yulia
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Speaker Information Can Guide Models to Better Inductive Biases: A Case Study On Predicting Code-Switching

ArXiv
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Alissa Ostapenko; Shuly Wintner; Melinda Fricke; Yulia Tsvetkov
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Predictive Processing and Inhibitory Control Drive Semantic Enhancements for Non-Dominant Language Word Recognition in Noise

Languages
2022-09-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Melinda Fricke; Megan Zirnstein
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Bilingualism reveals fundamental variation in language processing

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Fricke, Melinda; Zirnstein, Megan; Navarro-Torres, Christian; Kroll, Judith F.
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Auditory disruption improves word segmentation: A functional basis for lenition phenomena

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics
2018 | Journal article
Contributors: Katz, Jonah; Fricke, Melinda
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Cross-Language Activation Begins During Speech Planning and Extends Into Second Language Speech

Language Learning
2016 | Journal article
Contributors: Jacobs, April; Fricke, Melinda; Kroll, Judith F.
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Dimensions of similarity in the mental lexicon

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
2016 | Journal article
Contributors: Fricke, Melinda; Baese-Berk, Melissa M.; Goldrick, Matthew
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Primed codeswitching in spontaneous bilingual dialogue

Journal of Memory and Language
2016 | Journal article
Contributors: Fricke, Melinda; Kootstra, Gerrit Jan
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Phonetic variation in bilingual speech: A lens for studying the production–comprehension link

Journal of Memory and Language
2016-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0749-596X
Contributors: Melinda Fricke; Judith F. Kroll; Paola E. Dussias
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What bilinguals do with language that changes their minds and their brains

Applied Psycholinguistics
2014 | Journal article
Contributors: Kroll, Judith F.; Fricke, Melinda
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Word and Sound Processing in Bilingual Preschoolers

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 34TH ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, VOLS 1 AND 2
2012 | Journal article
Contributors: Fricke, Melinda
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Peer review (7 reviews for 3 publications/grants)

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