We are an international group of students and post-docs using the LENA System or other daylong (audio, video) recordings in their research. On our our monthly conference calls, we discuss recent relevant literature and provide each other with feedback and support. We also liaise with the larger DARCLE community and discuss how their work might relate to our own. The DARCLE New Investigator group is a growing community. We welcome new members and ideas about how this group can engage novice researchers using the daylong recordings and the LENA System. To learn more about what our members are working on, please visit their sites.

To join: Please contact Jennifer Markfeld (Vanderbilt University) or Alexus Ramirez (University of Maryland).

Click here to download all of the papers as Noam Chomsky (or noam > chomsky).

Meetings

Consultant

Members

  • Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, Language, Experience, and Development (LEAD) Lab, twitter.
  • Erin Campbell, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University.
  • Anna Caunt, University of Plymouth, , Plymouth BabyLab, twitter.
  • Yu (Tina) Chen, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, , Family Involvement Lab, twitter, NYU Langone Department of Pediatrics .
  • Shannon Dailey, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, , Baby’s First Years.
  • Lisa Hamrick, Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University.
  • Shiree Harbick, Communication Sciences and Disorders, James Madison University, , Infant & Toddler Language Lab, twitter.
  • Jessica Kosie, Princeton University, Princeton Baby Lab, , Website, twitter.
  • Jeffrey Mai, University of California, Los Angeles, Emergence of Communication Lab.
  • Jennifer Markfeld, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University, , Biobehavioral Approaches to Neurodevelopment Lab, twitter.
  • S. Alexa McDorman, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, , Language, Experience, and Development (LEAD) Lab, twitter.
  • Nicola Phillips, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University, , “McGill Infant Speech Perception Lab, Laboratoire de la perception de la parole de McGill”.
  • Kaveri Sheth, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, , Language Development and Processing Lab, Website.
  • Elaine Smolen, Teachers College, Columbia University, , Deaf & Hard of Hearing Lab.
  • Eva Ståhlberg-Forsén, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Finland, , The APPLE research project.
  • Sarah Surrain, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, , Website.
  • Ran Wei, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital.

Past Members

  • Sarah Allen
  • Janet Y. Bang
  • Joseph Coffey
  • Meg Cychosz
  • Hanna Elo
  • Hillary Ganek
  • Haille Heid
  • Catherine Laing
  • AJ Orena
  • Gina M. Pretzer
  • Rachel R. Romeo
  • Divya Swaminathan

(page last updated 26 July 2026)