Biography
Kiel Christianson has taught at the university level in Germany, Japan, and the U.S. He is a two-time Fulbright Scholar, and conducted the first "field-psycholinguistics" study on syntactic processing in any indigenous North American language (Odawa). He is currently Director of the Educational Psychology Psycholinguistics Lab at the Beckman Institute, and Associate Chair of the Department of Educational Psychology. His research has been funded by NSF, NIH, and Procter & Gamble.
Research Interests
psycholinguistics
bilingualism & SLA
reading
Research Description
Dr. Christianson studies syntactic parsing, sentence comprehension in reading and listening, reading, language production, bilingualism, and morphological processing.
Education
Linguistics, PhD, Michigan State University
Awards and Honors
two-time Fulbright recipient
NSF CAREER Award (2009-2014)
University of Illinois Campus Award for Excellence in Advising Undergraduate Research (2019)
Illinois College of Educaiton Distinguished Scholar (2019)
Illinois Colleg eof Educaiton David Zola Career Teaching Excellence Award (2020)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Educational Psychology
Professor, Psychology
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Director, Second Language Acquisition & Teacher Education (SLATE) Program, Center for Translation Studies
Chair, Educational Psychology
External Links
Recent Publications
Brehm, L., Hussey, E., & Christianson, K. (2020). The role of word frequency and morpho-orthography in agreement processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 35(1), 58-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1631456
Bulkes, N. Z., Christianson, K., & Tanner, D. S. (2020). Semantic constraint, reading control, and the granularity of form-based expectations during semantic processing: Evidence from ERPs. Neuropsychologia, 137, [107294]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107294
Christianson, K., & Deshaies, SE. (2020). Learning Languages in Informal Environments: Some Cognitive Considerations. In M. Dressman, & R. W. Sadler (Eds.), The Handbook of Informal Language Learning (pp. 27-37). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119472384.ch2
Dempsey, J., Liu, Q., & Christianson, K. (Accepted/In press). Convergent Probabilistic Cues Do Not Trigger Syntactic Adaptation: Evidence From Self-Paced Reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000881
Zhou, P., Garnsey, S. M., & Christianson, K. (2020). ERP data on auditory imagery of native and non-native English speech during silent reading. Data in Brief, 29, [105242]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105242
