Education:
Ph.D., University of Delaware - 2009 (Education)
M.A., University of Delaware - 2006 (Education)
B.A., Tsinghua University (China) - 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., W. Ma, L. Song and K. Hirsh-Pasek. "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., L. Song, S. Pruden, R.M. Golinkoff and K. Hirsh-Pasek. "Infants' Attention to Manner and Path: Foundations for Learning Relational Terms." Child Development 1: 241-52. doi:10.1111/cdev.12030. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2013
Song, L., E.T. Spier and C.S. Tamis-LeMonda. "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. and L. Song. "Parent-infant Communicative Interactions in Cultural Context." Handbook of Psychology, Volume 6: Developmental Psychology 2nd ed. Eds. R.M. Lerner, E. Easterbrooks and J. Mistry. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons Inc. 143-70. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2013
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., R. Luo and L. Song. "Parents' Role in Infants' Language Development and Emergent Literacy." Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide. Eds. S. Landry and C. Cooper. Oxford, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell. In press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013
Song, L., C.S. Tamis-LeMonda, H. Yoshikawa, R. Kahana-Kalman and I. Wu. "Language Experiences and Vocabulary Development in Dominican and Mexican Infants Across the First 2 Years." Developmental Psychology 48: 1106-23. doi:10.1037/a0026401. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., L. Song, A.S. Leavell, R. Kahana-Kalman and H. Yoshikawa. "Ethnic Differences in Mother-infant Communications Are Associated With Infants' Language and Gesture Skills." Developmental Science 15: 384-97. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01136.x. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
McDonough, C., L. Song, K. Hirsh-Pasek, R.M. Golinkoff and R. Lannon. "An Image Is Worth a Thousand Words: Why Nouns Tend to Dominate Verbs in Early Word Learning." Developmental Science 14: 181-89. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.00968.x. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Song, L., T. Nazzi, S. Moukawane, R.M. Golinkoff, A. Stahl, W. Ma, K. Hirsh-Pasek and M.A. Connell. "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., W. Ma, L. Song, D.E. Strober and R.M. Golinkoff. "Whatever Happened to Play?" Review of 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, Seattle, April. (Awards and Honors) 2013
William Stewart Travel Award, for attending the SRCD Biennial Meeting, Seattle, April. (Awards and Honors) 2013
Society for Research in Child Development Strategic Plan Conference Grant, for "Infants' Learning of Multiple Languages: Development in Cultural Context." L. Song and Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda (New York University), co-principal investigators. $20,000. (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
Song, L., C.S. Tamis-LeMonda, Y. Kuchirko, R. Luo and J. Raufman. "Children's Vocabulary Growth in English and Spanish Across Early Development and Associations With School Readiness Skills." Multi-level Approaches to Dual Language Development Symposium (L. Song, chair). Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Seattle, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., L. Tafuro, Y. Kuchirko, L. Song and R. Kahana-Kalman. "Mothers' Responsiveness and Child Development: A Focus on Mother-infant Interactions in Low-income, Ethnically Diverse Families." The Value of Micro-Analysis of Parent-Infant Interactions to Understanding Development in At-Risk Populations Symposium (J. Northrup, chair). Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Seattle, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Y. Kuchirko, L. Tafuro, L. Song, L. Karasik, R. Kahana-Kalman and K. Adolph. "Why Might Contingent Maternal Responsiveness Predict Infant Language Development." Linking Maternal Responsiveness With Language Development Symposium. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Wojcik, E.H., G. Hollich, R. Barr, L. Smith and L. Song. "The Role of Context in Language Development" roundtable. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Seattle, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
