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Kristina Strother-Garcia, Ph.D.

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Kristina Strother-Garcia
Title(s)
Assistant professor
Department
Education

B.A. in Linguistics, University of Chicago, 2013

M.A. in Linguistics, University of Delaware, 2015

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Delaware, 2019

Contact Information

Dr. Strother-Garcia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders at Bloomsburg University, where she teaches courses on language development, child language disorders, phonetics, research methods, and psycholinguistics. She completed her Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Delaware in 2019. Her research interests include child language acquisition (typical and atypical), model-theoretic phonology, and syllable theory. In her free time, she enjoys listening to podcasts, playing board games, and spending time with her husband and their 3 cats.

Areas of Interest: child language acquisition (typical and atypical), model-theoretic phonology, syllable theory

Teaching

  • CSD 220 Phonetics                                                        Spring 2021, 2022
  • CSD 240 Normal Language Acquisition                           Fall 2020, 2021, 2022
  • CSD 340 Cognitive/Behavioral Principles                        Spring 2021, 2022
  • CSD 460 Psycholinguistics                                              Fall 2020, 2021, 2022
  • CSD 552 Language Disorders in Preschool Children         Fall 2020
  • CSD 582 Research in Communication Disorders              Fall 2020, 2022

 

Research/Presentations/Publications/Grants
Last 5 years

  • Publications
    • 2021. Dolatian, H., Koser, N., Rawski, J., & Strother-Garcia, K. Computational restrictions on iterative prosodic processes. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 9.
    • 2018. Vu, M. H., Zehfroosh, A., Strother-Garcia, K., Sebok, M., Heinz, J., & Tanner, H. Statistical relational learning with unconventional word models. Frontiers in Robotics & AI, 5.
    • 2018. Strother-Garcia, K. Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber syllabification is Quantifier-Free. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, 1, Article 16.
    • 2017. Strother-Garcia, K., Heinz, J., Hwangbo, H. Using model theory for grammatical inference: A case study from phonology. Journal of Machine Learning Research: Workshop and Conference Proceedings, 57, 66—78.
    • 2017. Levine, D., Strother-Garcia, K., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. Names for things…and actions and events: Following in the footsteps of Roger Brown. In E. M. Fernandez & H. S. Cairns (Eds), Handbook of psycholinguistics. Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Talks
    • Feb. 2020. Strother-Garcia, K. From Theory to Experiment to Practice: An Example from Morphology. Invited talk at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
    • Feb. 2019 Strother-Garcia, K. Using Model Theory in Phonology. Invited talk at George Mason University.
    • Jan. 2018. Heinz, J., Strother-Garcia, K., Vu, M. H., Dolatian, H., & Tanner, H. Integrating the sciences of language learning, activity recognition, human-robot interaction, and pediatric rehabilitation. Presented in the showcase Expanding the Reach of Linguistics: Collaborations with Other Disciplines and Beyond at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT.
    • Apr. 2017. Strother-Garcia, K. Demonstrating the notational equivalence of model theories for syllable representations. Presented at the Rutgers/Delaware/Haverford Workshop on Computational Phonology, New Brunswick, NJ.
    • Apr. 2017. Nye, H., Pace, A., Levine, D., Luo, R., Morini, G., Strother-Garcia, K., Brezack, N., de Villiers, J., Wilson, M., Iglesias, A., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M. With the touch of a screen: Reliability, validity, and diagnostic accuracy of the Quick Interactive Language Screener (QUILS). In D. Levine (Chair), Language science meets the real world: Assessments to further research and practice. Paper symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.
    • Mar. 2017. Strother-Garcia, K. Logical foundations of syllable structure. Presented at the University of Delaware Cognitive Science Graduate Student Conference, Newark, DE.
  • Posters
    • Nov. 2020. Oppenheimer, K., Morini, G., Strother-Garcia, K., Huang, Y. T., & Owen Van Horne, A. Online comprehension of passive sentences by children with developmental language disorder and typically-developing age-matched peers. Presented at the 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
    • Nov. 2020. Owen Van Horne, A. & Strother-Garcia, K. Distributional properties of the input affect syntax learning for children with Developmental Language Disorder, but not Typically Developing peers. Presented at the 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
    • Sep. 2020. Dolatian, H., Koser, N., Rawski, J., & Strother-Garcia, K. Computational Restrictions on Iterative Prosodic Processes. Presented at the 8th Annual Meeting on Phonology, Santa Cruz, CA.
    • Jan. 2018. Strother-Garcia, K. Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber Syllabification is Quantifier-Free. Presented at the first meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, Salt Lake City, UT.
    • Sep. 2017. Strother-Garcia, K. & Heinz, J. Logical foundations of syllable representations. Presented at the 5th Annual Meeting on Phonology, New York, NY.
    • Aug. 2017. Kokkoni, E., Kannappan, P., Zehfroosh, A., Mavroudi, E., Strother-Garcia, K., Galloway, J. C., Heinz, J., Vidal, R., Tanner, H. G. Use of socially assistive robots in early rehabilitation to promote mobility for infants with motor delays. Presented at the 19th meeting of the International Conference on Social Robotics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
    • Jan. 2017. Strother-Garcia, K. & Heinz, J. Berber syllabification with local inviolable constraints. Presented at the 91st annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Austin, TX.
       

    • Service

    • Fall 2022-present          Member, University-wide Planning & Budget Committee
    • Fall 2022-present          Member, University-wide General Administration Committee
    • Fall 2022-present          Member, University-wide General Education Council
    • Spring 2022-present      Member, BU Health Sciences Symposium Organizing Committee
    • Fall 2021-present          Member, Departmental Promotion Committee
    • Fall 2021-present          Member, Departmental Curriculum Committee
    • Spring 2021-present      Chair, Departmental Strategic Planning Committee
    • Spring 2021-present      Member, SLP Graduate Admissions Committee
    • Spring 2021-present      Member, COST Career Expo Advisory Group
    • Fall 2020-present          Member, Departmental Search and Screen Committee