Education:
Ph.D., University of Delaware - 2009 (Education)
M.A., University of Delaware - 2006 (Education)
B.A., Tsinghua University - 2002 (English)
Areas of Expertise:
* Roles of context and culture in the early language development of children from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds
* Relation between early language development and later language, cognitive, and school readiness skills
* Bilingualism/multilingualism in early childhood
* Infants' processing of actions and events and its relation with verb learning
* Young children's word learning mechanisms
* Children's learning in museums
Books and Publications
Golinkoff, R. M., Ma, W., Song, L., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2013). Twenty-five years using the Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm to study language acquisition: What have we learned? Perspectives on Psychological Science. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2013
Pulverman, R., Song, L., Pruden, S., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2013). Infants' attention to manner and path: Foundations for learning relational terms. Child Development, 1, 241-252. doi:10.1111/cdev.12030 (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2013
Song, L., Spier, E. T., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2013). Reciprocal Influences between maternal language and children's language and Cognitive Development in Low-Income Families. Journal of Child Language. doi:10.1017/S0305000912000700 (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2013
Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Song, L. (2013). Parent-infant communicative interactions in cultural context. In R. M. Lerner, E. Easterbrooks, & J. Mistry (Co-Editors), Handbook of Psychology, 2nd ed.: Volume 6. Developmental Psychology (pp. 143-170). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2013
Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Luo, R., & Song, L. (in press). Parents' role in infants' language development and emergent literacy. To appear in S. Landry & C. Cooper (Eds.), Wellbeing: A complete reference guide. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013
Song, L., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Yoshikawa, H., Kahana-Kalman, R., & Wu, I. (2012). Language experiences and vocabulary development in Dominican and Mexican infants across the first 2 years. Developmental Psychology, 48, 1106-1123. doi:10.1037/a0026401 (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Song, L., Leavell, A. S., Kahana-Kalman, R., & Yoshikawa, H. (2012). Ethnic differences in mother-infant communications are associated with infants' language and gesture skills. Developmental Science, 15, 384-397. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01136.x (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
McDonough, C., Song, L., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Lannon, R. (2011). An image is worth a thousand words: Why nouns tend to dominate verbs in early word learning. Developmental Science, 14, 181-189. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.00968.x (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Song, L., Nazzi, T., Moukawane, S., Golinkoff, R. M., Stahl, A., Ma, W., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Connell, M. A. (2010). Sleepy vs. sleeping: Preschoolers' sensitivity to morphological cues for adjectives and verbs in English and French. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2010
Wong, W., Ma, W., Song, L., Strober, D. E., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2008). Whatever happened to play? Review of book, The power of play: How spontaneous, imaginative activities lead to happier, healthier children by D. Elkind. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 47, 1099-1100. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2008
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Early Career Travel Award for attending the SRCD Biennial Meeting, April, 2013, Seattle. (Awards and Honors) 2013
William Stewart Travel Award for attending the SRCD Biennial Meeting, April, 2013, Seattle. (Awards and Honors) 2013
Co-Principal Investigator (with Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, New York University), Society for Research in Child Development Strategic Plan Conference Grant, "Infants' Learning of Multiple Languages: Development in Cultural Context," $20,000. (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
Song, L., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Kuchirko, Y., Luo, R., & Raufman, J. (2013, April). Children's vocabulary growth in English and Spanish across early development and associations with school readiness skills. In L. Song (Chair), Multi-Level Approaches to Dual Language Development. Symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Kuchirko, Y., Tafuro, L., Song, L., Karasik, L., Kahana-Kalman, R., & Adolph, K. (2013, April). Why might contingent maternal responsiveness predict infant language development? In M. Bornstein (Chair), Linking maternal responsiveness with language development. Symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Tafuro, L., Kuchirko, Y., Song, L., & Kahana-Kalman, R. (2013, April). Mothers' responsiveness and child development: A focus on mother-infant interactions in low-income, ethnically diverse families. In J. Northrup (Chair), The Value of Micro-Analysis of Parent-Infant Interactions to Understanding Development in At-Risk Populations. Symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Wojcik, E. H., Hollich, G., Barr, R., Smith, L., & Song L. (2013, April). The Role of Context in Language Development. Roundtable at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
