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The Buratti-Horak-Rosa Conjecture Holds for Some Underlying Sets of Size Three
No full textA research paper investigating the Burrati-Horak-Rosa Conjecture, which concerns possible multisets of edge-labels of Hamiltonian paths in the complete graph under the induced length edge-labeling. This work was completed in the research co-curricular SOC320 at Emerson College in the summer of 2021. It was presented at the 53rd South-Eastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing in March 2022. It is under consideration for publication in a peer-reviewed journal
Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence Grant
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Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence Partnership
No full textEric Gordon (VMA) was awarded a $150,000 contract from Massachusetts General Hospital to support “Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence,” a multi-year initiative that hosts 5-7 partnered studio courses each year, during which students and faculty work alongside community partners to co-create narrative interventions and film short public service videos to combat the crisis of gun violence as it is experienced locally
Critical and Creative Data Literacies and Studies to Redress Mis-/Disinformation and Algorithmic Discrimination
No full textCritical and Creative Data Literacies and Studies to Redress Mis-/Disinformation and Algorithmic Discriminatio
Conventions for unconventional language: Revisiting a framework for spoken language features in autism
No full textThis review paper updates and expands an existing framework for unconventional language in autism to include a broader range of non-generative (echolalia and self-repetition) and generative (idiosyncratic phrases, neologisms and pedantic language) features often observed in the language of individuals on the autism spectrum. For each aspect of the framework, we review the various definitions and measurement approaches, and we provide a summary of individual and contextual correlates. We also propose some transitional language features that may bridge non-generative and generative domains (e.g., mitigated echolalia and gestalt language)
Word imageability is associated with expressive vocabulary in children with autism spectrum disorder
No full textThroughout typical development, children prioritize different perceptual, social, and linguistic cues to learn words. The earliest acquired words are often those that are perceptually salient and highly imageable. Imageability, the ease in which a word evokes a mental image, is a strong predictor for word age of acquisition in typically developing (TD) children, independent of other lexicosemantic features such as word frequency. However, little is known about the effects of imageability in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who tend to have differences in linguistic processing and delayed language acquisition compared to their TD peers. This study explores the extent to which imageability and word frequency are associated with early noun and verb acquisition in children with ASD
Parental tuning of language input to autistic and nonspectrum children
No full textCaregivers’ language input supports children’s language development, and it is often tuned to the child’s current level of skill. Evidence suggests that parental input is tuned to accommodate children’s expressive language levels, but accommodation to receptive language abilities is less understood. In particular, little is known about parental sensitivity to children’s abilities to process language in real time. Compared to nonspectrum children, children on the spectrum are slower to process language. In this study, we ask: Do parents of autistic children and those of nonspectrum children tune their language input to accommodate children’s different language processing abilities? Children with and without a diagnosis of autism (ages 2–6 years, N = 35) and their parents viewed a display of six images, one of which was the target. The parent labeled the target to direct the child’s attention to it. We first examined children’s language processing abilities by assessing their latencies to shift gaze to the labeled referent; from this, we found slower latencies in the autistic group than in the nonspectrum group, in line with previous findings. We then examined features of parents’ language and found that parents in both groups produced similar language, suggesting that parents may not adjust their language input according to children’s speed of language processing. This finding suggests that (1) capturing parental sensitivity to children’s receptive language, and specifically language processing, may enrich our models of individual differences in language input, and (2) future work should investigate if supporting caregivers in tuning their language use according to children’s language processing can improve children’s language outcomes
MCC Artist Fellowship (Fiction/Creative Non-Fiction)
No full textMCC Artist Fellowship (Fiction/Creative Non-Fiction
