Hannah G. Treadway

bilingualism | code-switching | language experience & cognition

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I am a fourth-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.

My work adopts a context-to-cognition framework to study bilingualism. Integrating methods from sociolinguistics (e.g., corpora, personal social network analysis), psycholinguistics (e.g., eye-tracking and self-paced reading), and cognitive neuroscience (e.g., event-related potentials and oscillations), my research maps the structure of situated language use onto adaptation in bilingual language processing, with a particular focus on code-switching. My work also considers how variability in the bilingual experience across the lifespan manifests as cognitive adaptation to attention, memory, cognitive control, and Theory of Mind. At the broadest level, my research program advocates for contextualized understandings of interaction, cognition, and computation.

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Jul 10, 2026 New preprint alert! Check out how associative prediction is influenced by modulations to task relevance in joint work led by my mentee, Jude Singleton.
Jul 06, 2026 Join us this week for the summer course Cómo investigar con corpus at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. As visiting instructor, I look forward to teaching how to conduct corpus-to-cognition research in multilingual contexts. Hope to see you there!
Jul 01, 2026 I had great fun speaking about applications of personal social network analysis in language science as invited presenter at the inaugural meeting of the Network Science and Multilingualism Interest Group! Join us for our next meeting on Tuesday, September 15th, where we will discuss how to use the personal social network technique to ask targeted research questions about multilingualism.
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!