Hannah G. Treadway

bilingual sentence processing | code-switching | bilingualism & cognition across the lifespan

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I am a third-year PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Florida where I am co-advised by Dr. Jorge Valdés Kroff and Dr. Edith Kaan. I conduct research in the Bilingual Sentence Processing Lab and the Brain, Language, and Bilingualism Lab.

I use psycho-/neurolinguistic methods like eye-tracking and EEG to investigate the cognitive processes underlying (bilingual) language processing and code-switching. My work also considers how bilingualism might be modulatory of or interact with domain-general abilities, such as conflict adaptation, attention, Theory of Mind, and even working memory in cognitive decline. At its core, my research is concerned with characterizing how the experiential dimensions of bilingualism and language use impact real-time language processing and cognitive mechanism recruitment.

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Jun 07, 2026 Pleased to have been invited to speak at la Facultade de Filoloxía de la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela during my time as a visiting scholar with BabelBrain: Mapping multilingual ecologies. Join us at noon on June 17th for my talk about experience-driven adaptation in the processing of Spanish-English code-switching.
Mar 24, 2026 Going to be at HSP 2026? Be sure to stop by our poster on task effects on predictive eye-movements on Thursday evening and my talk on how speaker accent modulates the engagement of prediction during code-switching processing on Saturday afternoon. We would love to hear your feedback!
Mar 20, 2026 New publication alert! Check out our chapter entitled “Sensitivity to codeswitching asymmetries in second language sentence processing”, out now in Current insights into code-switching.
Jan 11, 2026 Excited to be in Reading for Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World 2026! If you’re in town for the conference, stop by my talks: Perceived accent impacts sentence processing of bilingual code-switching on Day 1, and The neural bases of Theory of Mind: The role of bilingual typology on Day 2.
Sep 26, 2025 Looking forward to serving the language science community this year as junior member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Human Sentence Processing. Stay tuned for upcoming event announcements!