About
My main interest is in children's acquisition of morphosyntax and phonology. I use corpus data analysis and psycholinguistic methods like eye-tracking to investigate how children process sentences on-line and how they acquire their ambient language.
I had previously worked in Manila, Philippines as a speech-language pathologist for children with special needs, before I took graduate studies in Clinical Linguistics at the Universities of Potsdam, Groningen, and Eastern Finland. I received my PhD in Cognitive Science under the joint programme, International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language and Brain (IDEALAB), from the Universities of Potsdam, Groningen, Trento, Newcastle, and Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. My dissertation was on children's acquisition of thematic role assignment and word order in Tagalog. My first postdoc was at Dr. Evan Kidd's Learning through Processing group in MPI Nijmegen.
Publications
Rowena Garcia, Evan Kidd
Linguistics, vol. 60(6), 2022, pp. 1855-1906
Online data collection to address language sampling bias: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Rowena Garcia, Jens Roeser, Evan Kidd
Linguistics Vanguard, 2022
How diverse is child language acquisition research?
Evan Kidd, Rowena Garcia
First Language, vol. 42(6), 2022, pp. 703-735
Where to from here? Increasing language coverage while building a more diverse discipline
Evan Kidd, Rowena Garcia
First Language, vol. 42, 2022, pp. 837-851
Rowena Garcia, Gabriela Garrido Rodriguez, Evan Kidd
Cognition, vol. 216, 2021, p. 104859
Kathleen Kay Amora, Rowena Garcia, Natalia Gagarina
Natalia Gagarina, Josefin Lindgren, New language versions of MAIN: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives – Revised, 2020, pp. 221–233
The acquisition of the Tagalog symmetrical voice system: Evidence from structural priming
Rowena Garcia, Evan Kidd
Language Learning and Development, vol. 16, Routledge, 2020, pp. 399-425
Rowena Garcia, Jens Roeser, Barbara Höhle
Journal of Child Language, vol. 47, Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 533–555
Rowena Garcia, Jens Roeser, Barbara Höhle
Language Acquisition, vol. 26, Routledge, 2019, pp. 235-261
Word order preferences of Tagalog-speaking adults and children
Rowena Garcia, Jeruen E. Dery, Jens Roeser, Barbara Höhle
First Language, vol. 38, 2018, pp. 617-640
Projects
Tagalog morphosyntax and word order
Together with Prof. Evan Kidd of MPI Nijmegen, I investigate children's acquisition of Tagalog morphosyntax and thematic role assignment. Older articles were for my PhD, supervised by Prof Barbara Höhle at the University of Potsdam
Phonotactic acquisition of German and Russian infants
In Prof. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan's C07 project under the University of Potsdam's SFB 1287, I look at German- and Russian-speaking monolinguals' and bilinguals' acquisition of phonotactics.
Tagalog negation and narratives
The project on Tagalog-speaking children's acquisition of negation words is a collaboration with Roman Feiman and Scott AnderBois from Brown University. The narratives project was Kathleen Kay Amora's Master thesis at the University of Potsdam.
Cross-linguistic study on word order
This is an MPI NL's Levelt award project on the order of given and new arguments in different languages. My collaborators are Natalia Levshina and Yevheniy Skyra (MPI NL).
Contact
Rowena Garcia
Postdoctoral researcher