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. & Pylkkänen, L. (2021, November). Composition within and between languages in the bilingual mind: MEG evidence from Korean/English bilinguals. eNeuro, 8(6).
Upcoming Conference Presentations:
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).
Phillips, S.F. & Holliday, N.R. (2025, March). Learners attend to color when exposed to minimally different language varieties. Poster to be presented at the 38th Annual Conference of Human Sentence Processing (College Park, MD, USA).
Recent Conference Presentations:
Phillips, S.F. (2024, May). Prosody may be a sufficient cue for differentiated bilingual learning. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2024), Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
Recorded Talks:
2021, September. Toward a linguistically inclusive model of language processing. Speaker Series, NLP with Friends.
Sarah Frances Phillips, Ph.D. 