Publications and Presentations

Publications and Manuscripts

Namboodiripad, S., Kutlu, E., Babel, A., Babel, M., Baese-Berk, M., Bassuk, P. B., Block, A., Cabrera Perez, R., Carlson, M. T., Carraturo, S., Cheng, A., Cheng, L. S. P., Combiths, P., Foushee, R., Frederiksen, A. T., Grammon, D., Hayes-Harb, R., Higby, E., Kendro, K., Koulidobrova, E., Lin, C.-J. C., Lin, Z., Luque, A., McGowan, K. B., Muegge, J., Shea, C., Tripp, A., Woods, S. J., & Wright, K. E. (Under review). Essentialist characterizations of language are an obstacle to accuracy, progress, and justice in science. [preprint]

Henriksen, N. & Kendro, K. (2024). Laxing Vowel Harmony. In van der Hulst, H. & Ritter, N. (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [proof, access link]

García-Amaya, L., Kendro, K., & Henriksen, N. (2023). Regional variation, articulation rate, and pausing patterns in three varieties of Spanish. In Radek, S. & Volín, J. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1449–1453). Guarant International. [paper]

Marchand, E., Lovelett, J. T., Kendro, K., & Barner, D. (2022). Assessing the knower-level framework: How reliable is the Give-a-Number task? Cognition 222, 104998. [access link]

Cook, I., Deaton, E., Johandes, E., Kendro, K. Alberto, P., Coetzee, A., García-Amaya, L., Langland, V., Silva, A., Szpiech, R., & Henriksen, N. (2020). Humanities reimagined: An innovative faculty-student collaborative model. Inside Higher Ed. [access link]

A masked woman with glasses and medium-length light brown hair, wearing black slacks and a black blazer with a pink shirt, angled away from the camera and gesturing with her hands to someone outside of the frame. She is in front of a partially visible poster with a title that begins "Assessing potential language attrition", which is displayed at the 2024 LSA conference poster session.

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Presentations

Larson-Hall, J., & Kendro, K. (2025). Effects of task repetition and idealized input on lexical performance of L2 Spanish Attriters. Paper accepted for presentation at the 2025 Second Language Research Forum (SLRF): Flagstaff, AZ.

Kendro, K. (2025). A scoping review of L2 attrition research. Paper accepted for presentation at the 2025 Second Language Research Forum (SLRF): Flagstaff, AZ.

Kutlu, E. & Kendro, K. (2025). Rethinking the “Native” Speaker: Essentialism and Linguistic Theory. Part of Reframing Our Language Experience: Challenging Essentialist Labels for Inclusive and Equitable Research. Paper accepted for presentation at the Linguistic Society of America Presidential Research Forum.

Kendro, K. & Jarvis, S. (2025). Defining bilingualism: Reconciling self-identification and researcher determination. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2025 International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB): San Sebastián, SP. [abstract] [poster]

Kendro, K. (2025). Who counts as bilingual? Comparing participants' and researchers' descriptions of language background. Lightning talk accepted for presentation at the 2nd Annual Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Symposium. [First presented as: Kendro, K. & Jarvis, S. (2025). Who counts as bilingual? Comparing participants' and researchers' descriptions of language background. 2025 Five Minute Linguist (5ML) presentation at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA): Philadelphia, PA.] [abstract] [video]

Kendro, K., Maloney, J., & Jarvis, S. (2025). A comparison of lexical diversity measures between human and AI writing. Paper presented at the 2025 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL): Denver, CO. [abstract, slides]

Larson-Hall, J., & Kendro, K. (2025). A Constant Decay Hypothesis account of lexical attrition: Evidence from L2 Spanish. Paper presented at the 2025 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL): Denver, CO. [abstract, slides]

Kendro, K. & Jarvis, S. (2025). Who counts as bilingual? Comparing ideals and identification across researchers and participants. Poster presented at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA): Philadelphia, PA. [osf]

Jarvis, S., Egbert, J., Akbary, M., Demir, Y., Grixoni, F., Kendro, K., Cunningham, C., & Eggington, B. (2024). Improving the Comprehensibility of Jury Instructions through Empirical Linguistic Methods. Paper presented at the 9th Annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference. [abstract, slides]

Kendro, K., Maloney, J., & Jarvis, S. (2024). Lexical diversity in human- and LLM-generated text. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 46. [osf]

Kendro, K. & Jarvis, S. (2024). Lexical diversity and perceived credibility in eyewitness accounts. Paper presented at the 2024 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). [abstract, slides]

Kendro, K. & Jarvis, S. (2024). Assessing potential language attrition: The Supplemental Language Attrition Questionnaire. Poster presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA): New York City, NY. [osf]

García-Amaya, L., Kendro, K., & Henriksen, N. (2023). Regional variation, articulation rate, and pausing patterns in three varieties of Spanish. Poster presented at The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. [poster, paper]

Kendro, K., & Jarvis, S. (2023). Lexical diversity across monolingual and multilingual populations. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 45. [abstract, poster]

Kendro, K., Akbary, M., Almas, A., & Jarvis, S. (2023). Extralinguistic markers of political affiliation: A corpus analysis of Parler and Twitter. Poster presented at the 2023 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). [osf]

Kendro, K., Akbary, M., & Jarvis, S. (2022). Internet-influenced shifts in compound word formation and usage frequency. Poster presented at The 15th Biennial High Desert Linguistic Society Conference. [osf, lightning talk]

García-Amaya, L., Kendro, K., & Henriksen, N. (2022). Regional variation in articulation rate and pausing across three dialects of Spanish. Poster presented at The 18th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. [osf, lightning talk]

Schoener, N., Marchand, E., Kendro, K., & Barner, D. (2021). Subitizing Abilities of Bilingual Subset-Knowers. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 43. [abstract]

Kendro, K. (2019). The Lasting Cognitive Effects of Second Language Acquisition. Poster presented at Midwest Undergraduate Cognitive Science Conference: Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Boland, J. E., Pasquinelli, R., Sabri, M., Kendro, K., & Brickman, J. (2017). Working Memory and Conversational Fluency. In Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society 22, 58th Annual Meeting. [abstract; page 7]

Panels and workshops

Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Collective Workshop. ISB organized workshop; co-chairs Ethan Kutlu and Alicia Luque. The 2025 International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB): San Sebastián.

Linguistics and Jury Instructions. LCL organized session; co-chairs Jesse Egbert and Scott Jarvis. The 9th Annual Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference: Provo, UT.

Pushing against essentialist characterizations of language in Linguistics: Setting priorities in research, teaching, and advocacy. LSA organized session; co-chairs Ethan Kutlu and Savithry Namboodiripad. The 2024 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA): New York City, NY.

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