Morse Scholar Alumni 2021–2024
Current Position
Doctoral Student
Language Acquisition and Bilingualism (LAB) Laboratory
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Contact
About
Emma is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders under the mentorship of Dr. Margarita Kaushanskaya. She earned a BA in Psychology from Grinnell College in 2019. Emma’s research interests center around bilingual language acquisition in diverse populations (i.e., children with and without language disorders) and contexts (e.g., disfluent input & naturalistic parent-child interactions).
Education
| 2019 | BA | Psychology | Grinnell College |
| 2021–2024 | Morse Scholar | Major Professor: Margarita Kaushanskaya, PhD | Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Selected Publications
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Libersky, E., Slawny, C., & Kaushanskaya, M. (2024). Effects of dual- and single-language exposure on children’s word learning: Experimentally testing the role of competition. Journal of experimental child psychology, 244, 105953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105953
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Libersky, E., Crespo, K., Reppe, A., & Kaushanskaya, M. (2023). Effects of bilingualism on autobiographical memory: variation in idea density and retrieval speed. Memory (Hove, England), 31(4), 491–501. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2171435
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Libersky, E., Neveu, A., & Kaushanskaya, M. (2023). One fish, uh, two fish: Effects of fluency and bilingualism on adults’ novel word learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30(2), 763–773. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02189-8