Graduate Student

Kayla is a third-year graduate student from Sahuarita, Arizona. She graduated with a bachelor's in Psychological and Brain Sciences with minors in Linguistics and French from WashU in 2021. Her masters investigated linguistic factors that influence lexical stress, and she is currently looking at morphology and multisyllabic words. When she is not in the lab, she is cuddling her cat, Friday, hosting game nights with her friends, reading, or learning to book bind.

Lissa is a Brazilian Ph.D. Student from the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPEL). She graduated with an M.A. in Linguistics and a bachelor's in Education (Elementary Teaching License) also from UFPEL. In Brazil, she works at GEALE lab under the supervision of Professor Ana Ruth Miranda, where she has been studying the relations between phonology and orthography since 2014, with a special look on the spelling of Brazilian Portuguese's complex syllables by Elementary School children. She is currently working as a Visiting Researcher at the Reading and Language Lab, with support from CAPES (grant no. 88881.933716/2024-01). Outside research, she loves practicing sports, having good and meaningful conversations with people, and reading a book accompanied by chimarrão, a very typical tea from her home state Rio Grande do Sul.