Current Projects:
Identifying the linguistic cues that support bilingual learning: This body of work uses artificial languages to simulate bilingual learning in order to characterize how learners use perceptual cues to differentially acquire multiple languages.
Addressing assessment biases in clinical tools used for characterizing language deficits: This body of work takes a linguistic approach to (i) understand how marginalized language users may be mischaracterized by mainstream, monolingual-centered diagnostic tools, and (ii) develop linguistically and socioculturally-sensitive tools for improved efficacy.
Publications:
Phillips, S.F. & Sedarous, Y. (to appear). Finding anchors in code-switching: How nouns guide online processing of nominals across three bilingual groups. Glossa.
Phillips, S.F. & Cournane, A. (2025). Bilinguals process incoming words using distributions across both languages. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1–13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925100333
Phillips, S.F. & Pylkkänen, L. (2021). Composition within and between languages in the bilingual mind: MEG evidence from Korean/English bilinguals. eNeuro, 8(6).
Upcoming Conference Presentations:
Zhang, Y. & Phillips, S.F. (2026, May). Prosodic and Syntactic Cue Integration in L2 English Focus Processing. To be presented at Speech Prosody 2026 (Philadelphia, PA, USA).
Recent Conference Presentations:
Phillips, S.F. “Using linguistics to make assessments used in clinical practice more precise.” Talk presented at the 2026 Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Phoenix, AZ, USA).
Phillips, S.F., Marsh, A.A., & Seydell-Greenwald, A. (2025, April). Performance Differences between Black and White Stroke Survivors on the Shortened Geneva Emotion Recognition Test Suggest Effects of Sociocultural Background on Emotion Recognition. Poster to be presented at the 2025 Annual meeting for the American Society of Neurorehabilitation (Atlanta, GA, USA).
Sarah Frances Phillips, Ph.D. 