As wires and connections knit the world’s cultures closer and
closer together, researchers in the Texas A&M language and cognition lab work to understand the growing population of multilingual speakers.
Jyotsna Vaid, professor of psy-chology, arrived at Texas A&M in 1986 and established what is now the language and cognition lab to further linguistic research within the psychology department.
As the number of multilinguals in-creases globally, Vaid said the nature of language research must change
along with it.“The idea is to go beyond at look-
ing at just English single-language us-ers, which has tended to be the way in which psychology of language had been studied for a long time, until the last 15 years or so,” Vaid said. “There has become more of a global interest in looking at the variety of languages that are out there and the variety of language experiences that people have.”
Belem Lopez, a psychology grad-uate student working in the language and cognition lab, said while bilin-gualism research has often focused on comparing bilinguals and monolin-guals, she is more interested in the differences between bilinguals them-selves.
“Not all bilinguals are the same,” Lopez said. “A way to look at that would be through experience, and an experience I’m interested in is
language brokering.”Language brokering is the infor-
mal translation process that children of immigrants often engage in, trans-lating English to their parents’ native language in parent-teacher confer-ences, trips to the doctor or other day-to-day activities.
Lopez is researching college stu-dents who were language brokers as children by testing them with bilin-gual word tasks and observing the variation in their answers.
“Research has shown that some-times children feel like they’re a third parent or they can feel a little stressed out, but then there has been positive research psychologically where it says that children have higher confi-dence or they do better on standard-ized tests,” Lopez said. “A question that my advisor and I have is, ‘Well,
The audience sat in the dark, wait-
ing expectantly for the singers to appear on the stage. But music instead erupted from among the audience, as the perform-ers jumped from conceal-ment and headed to the stage surrounded by song.
So began Century
Singers’ Showcase, where members of the 80-voice Century Singer choir performed anything they desired. The showcase represents only one of many events the orga-nization has performed throughout the 2013-2014 season.
Though the choir concentrates on classi-cal music, events such as
the showcase give mem-bers the opportunity to perform a diverse range of tunes. The various performance options of-fered by Century Singers helps unify the members, said Zach O’Neal, junior business administration major.
“There’s a piece for
Students can get a glimpse Wednesday of what Texas A&M was like when women
and African-Americans were first allowed to enroll.
MSC LEAD is hosting “Former Students’ Stories” at noon at Rudder Plaza, which will feature Rozanna Mendoza, Class of 1986, and Leroy Sterling, one of the first four African Americans admitted to the University in 1963. The former students will share their experi-ences from their days on campus during the University’s history of integration and discrimi-nation issues.
Justin Richardson, executive director of the MSC LEAD sub-community hosting the event and biomedical engineering major, said the event will give current students a unique perspective on the past by providing them with first-hand accounts.
“The event will engage current students to recognize issues they may not have perceived as still relevant,” Richardson said. “With that knowledge they can be better prepared to face the future.”
Current students will be able to ask the speakers questions about their life on campus during their times as students.
“Oftentimes our past can inform our future, and if we can learn from our past we can bet-ter our future,” said Alec Krance, MSC LEAD chairperson and junior political science and psychology major. “It is my hope that students will learn of A&M’s past in regards to inclusion so they can see how important it is to take steps to be inclusive on today’s campus.”
Texas A&M’s air raid system, led by sophomore Johnny Manziel, has failed to have a “perfect game”
this season, but junior offensive tackle Cedric Ogbuehi said the Aggies are just a few mistakes short of perfection.
“If we stop hurting ourselves, we’ll score 70,” Ogbuehi said.
In A&M’s 51-41 home finale win over Mississippi State on Saturday, the offense’s point production off 537 total yards with three turnovers was enough to down the Bulldogs. But 91 rushing yards — roughly 17 percent of the total pro-duction — forced the Aggies into the air.
A factor for the disparity between A&M’s air and ground attacks was the offensive line’s rust, head coach Kevin Sumlin said. Ogbuehi returned to the
unit after sitting out two games with an undisclosed injury.
“[The offensive line] was a little rusty,” Sumlin said. “People think if you’re a lineman, you’re a lineman. You move from guard to tackle, back to guard, and haven’t played in a couple weeks and you’re playing big, strong SEC linemen.”
As the Aggies inch closer to the sea-son’s end, the offense has become more focused on its elusive “perfect game.” Of-fensive coordinator Clarence McKinney said the task remains a stimulus for con-tinued production and even though it is “unrealistic,” he believes the unit needs only to perform a “complete” game to reach its potential.
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Ashley Morehead (from left), Zach O’Neal, Haley Demos and Sarah Pederson practice Monday in the MSC choral office.
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soccer | 2A&M to host NCAA 1st roundA&M will play Utah in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday at Ellis Field.
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“You’re talking about a complete game — 14 possible drives — where you score touchdowns in all 14, then you’re look-ing at a lot of points,” McKinney said. “It’s unrealistic, but as a coaching staff and players, we feel like we can score on every possession. We’ve had that opportunity, we just haven’t put it together.”
Entering the bye week, Sumlin said the Aggies have an opportunity to recover from injuries and refocus before closing out the season with consecutive road games at No. 21 LSU and No. 9 Missouri.
Sumlin said he remained convinced the road matchups will serve as motiva-tion, especially since the outcomes will affect A&M’s bowl placement.
“[The bye week] comes at a good time for us with the two games we have on the road against two high-quality opponents, both ranked teams,” Sumlin said. “We have a couple games that are meaningful and will dictate a lot for this team. It gives our guys a lot to play for.”
Defensive coordinator Mark Snyder said he was satisfied with the defensive
unit’s performance against Mississippi State, which generated a large portion of its total yards in the fourth quarter.
Snyder attributed the opposing teams’ success in the fourth quarter to many of his veterans’ inexperience playing late in the game due to A&M’s success last sea-son in blowing out opponents early.
“We were bleeding yards,” Snyder
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A&M to host first-round against UtahThe Texas A&M women’s soccer team —
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A&M earned its position in the national tournament through the SEC tournament title, marking the program’s 19th consecu-tive entrance. The Aggies are just one of five schools to reach the NCAA Tournament every season since 1995, each under current head coach G Guerrieri.
The Aggies (17-4-1, 9-2 SEC) hold a 10-2-1 home record on the year, and will face a Utah squad (10-4-6, 6-3-2 Pac-12) that fin-ished third in its conference this season. A&M owns an all-time 3-0 edge over Utah.
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port the proposed Texas A&M branch in Israel.Brody Smith, SGA vice president of academic af-
fairs, said even though the TAMU Library Expan-sion Bill has not passed through Senate, it has already prompted action from administrators.
Smith said library administrators have agreed to ex-tend Evans Library hours until 2 a.m. Sunday through Thursday, starting next semester.
David Carlson, dean of University Libraries, wrote in an email to Student Government that the library will aim to lower the costs of expansion by sharing staff between the Annex and Evans.
“We’re going to try out some version of the ‘shared staff’ model already working during those times and hope that it works, which means that we don’t an-ticipate an increase in costs,” Carlson said. “We are concerned about ensuring that Evans remains a place where students feel — and are — safe, so we’re also going to pursue security options and see if we can’t increase coverage.”
Smith said the extended hours will be a trial contin-gent on the number of students utilizing Evans Library during the extended hours.
“They are going to be tracking the numbers in the spring and if numbers stay constant with what the An-nex was, then they will leave the library open,” Smith said.
The TAMU Library Expansion Bill supports the changes at Evans Library and also seeks to expand West Campus Library Facilities.
“West Campus Library now is currently very over-used,” Smith said. “There is not enough space and the computer labs are always full. With so many more stu-dents coming in this year, with a 1,500-student push to the new freshman class, it is just overused.”
Smith said the library administration was interest-ed in adding onto the West Campus Library or even
building a new library for the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine because of the high use of West Campus Library and the new dorms to be built on West Campus.
Smith said the administration supports the expan-sions, but would need donors to build an entirely new library.
Also to be voted on at the meeting is a bill that sup-ports the creation of a Texas A&M University branch in Israel.
Sarah Mercer, senior international studies major, introduced the idea for the bill to the Student Senate.
“As I mentioned in my presentation, Texas A&M will be the first American university to have a branch campus in Israel and I think that is an honor,” Mercer said. “We should be proud of that and we should sup-port the school in those initiatives.”
Mercer, who is not a student senator, said most stu-dents are not aware that any student can introduce a bill in Student Senate if they get the support of one student senator.
“I would definitely encourage other students if they have an issue that’s really on their hearts to come into contact with the Student Senate and to present it in front of everyone,’” Mercer said.
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As students turn the knobs of their car radios, they
may pay little attention to the origins and implications of the music blaring from their speak-ers, but the MSC Woodson Black Awareness Committee will turn up the volume with five panelists to discuss the im-pact of rap music on the black community and society as a whole.
Serving as panelists for the discussion, “Started from the Bottom, Now We’re Where?” are Texas A&M professors Tommy Curry and Reuben May and three Prairie View A&M University professors. They will analyze the influ-ence of rap culture, following it from its origins through its expansion into mainstream culture and into the present day.
The panelists will explore different ideas about the genre and analyze its portrayal of the black community. Topics may include sexism, violence, drugs and poverty, according to members associated with the event.
Candace Morris, director of Black History Month and junior accounting major, said she hopes the event will in-form people.
“What WBAC aims to achieve in hosting this event is to educate the audience about the history of rap music and how it has a relationship with
the black community,” Morris said. “Nowadays, the audience of rap music sees rap music as the black community. They equate that with each other even though rap music isn’t a true representation of the black community, so we just want the audience to understand the evolution of both rap music and the black community and how they differ and share rela-tionships.”
Aja Holston, WBAC chair and senior political science major, said addressing hip-hop and rap is relevant to students because of its popularity.
“For people who consider themselves to be fans of hip-hop, fans of rap, it’s really im-portant that they understand the history of it and they un-derstand the purpose of rap and hip-hop and it was never to be entertainment,” Holston said. “It was always to be an ave-nue for black people to have a space to speak in, to speak your thoughts.”
The event will last as long as the discussion continues, said Lyndon Pryor, MSC program advisor for WBAC.
“As always, with any discus-sion, depending on audience engagement, what type of top-ics that we end up hitting and how those strike our panelists, we kind of allow the conversa-tion to go where it will,” Pryor said.
“Started From the Bottom, Now We’re Where?” will be at 7 p.m. on Nov. 14 in the Psychology Building, Room 108. The event is open to the public.
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everyone,” O’Neal said. “When you join a choir you don’t assume that we’re going to do a Bruno Mars song and then the very next week completely go through Mozart. I think that if you enjoy contemporary music you can find your niche there, and if you enjoy classical music you can find your niche there. If you enjoy both you’re just happy all the time.”
This season marks notable changes in the or-ganization, said John O’Hearne, Century Sing-ers treasurer and junior telecommunication and media studies major, as the arrival of new direc-tor Eric Posada brought with it a new direction and new opportunities.
“Whenever you have a change of director I think there’s just a very obvious leadership change in what he’s going to bring to the ta-ble,” O’Hearne said. “We’ve seen it in how he interacts with the choir and I guess one of the most interesting things to me is just the energy that he brings.”
O’Neal said one such opportunity Posada brought to the organization was the chance to sing for Omar Maldonado, Class of 1997, in his campaign video as he ran for a judge of Hidalgo County Court.
Century Singers is scheduled to tour around the state, take a trip to Germany, sing at Muster and perform with the Nordic Choir. The Nor-dic Choir is among the top choirs in the world, and O’Hearne said this could be an incredible opportunity for Century Singers.
“If we’re able to hold up and put on a good show with them that could be incredible na-tional recognition for us,” O’Hearne said. “There are just a lot of exciting opportunities that I think we’ve been having. I think that’s just the general theme of this year. It’s not that past years haven’t been exciting. We’ve had
some really cool things happen over the years, but this year is kind of a culmination that keeps your head spinning all the time.”
Despite these changes and opportunities, O’Neal said Century Singers has managed to stay close and maintain a family dynamic that sets their music apart.
“There’s a whole dynamic of singing with people that you’re friends with rather than people that you don’t know,” O’Neal said. “It brings a certain excitement into the room. Because when all of your friends are singing together in the same room and you know that you’re about to produce something beautiful together as a family, there’s just so much more to it than singing with random people.”
In addition to nearly four hours of practice per week, the choir hosts weekly social events and parties for its members. Taylor Cooper, sophomore agricultural leadership and devel-opment major, said he appreciates that the choir is about more than just music.
“It’s what makes us more than a choir I guess,” Cooper said. “It’s got a very family feel, very tight knit. We have a lot of our own traditions and everything. It’s definitely a very unique organization.”
Century Singers strives not only to give its members the opportunity to grow musically, but also to grow as individuals, O’Hearne said.
“When you look at A&M, people can think there’s not musical opportunity, but that’s not even remotely true,” O’Hearne said. “If you’re willing to put the time into Century Singers, we will give you as many opportunities as we can, not only to grow as a person with our different social events and as a leader, but also musically.”
The choir will next be performing Mozart’s Requiem with the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra on Nov. 24 and taking part in the Holiday Spirit of Aggieland Christmas concert on Dec. 8.
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they’re using language in a so-phisticated way, maybe there’s some long-term cognitive and linguistic repercussions to this.’”
Lopez said the process of language brokering could have implications for the edu-cation of bilingual children.
“Language brokering is something that people aren’t taught, they just kind of get thrown into it,” Lopez said. “Maybe it’s something that teachers should take into ac-count. This is an advanced skill that children are learning. How can they incorporate that into education?”
Kayoung Kim, a psychol-ogy graduate student working in the language and cognition lab, is observing how ortho-graphic differences — differ-
ences in spelling and represen-tation of sounds — between English and Korean affects how speakers of both lan-guages perceive them.
“We started with people like me who have quite good proficiency in English but are dominantly Korean-users,” Kim said. “That was our first part, and we demonstrated that orthographic knowledge does influence how we were understanding speech sounds. So now as a next step we’re using Korean-Americans who differ on their literacy experi-ences.”
The participants are given a sound deletion task in which participants are given a word and then asked to drop in what they believe to be the first “sound” of the word. The differences in their re-sponses highlight the unique characteristics of the Korean language as well as the partici-
pants’ dominant language.The study focuses on lit-
eracy and its effect on speech, but Kim said the broad objec-tive is to view how language affects human perception.
“In a nutshell, I’m inter-ested because I’m trying to think of the influence of the language experience in how people view the world,” Kim said. “That could be investi-gated with lots of other things. The effect of literacy on how people perceive speech sounds, that’s really specified. But if you were to think about it, generally speaking, it’s just seeing how language actually changes your perception.”
Though communication can be found in other animal species, Vaid said an argument could be made that communi-cation through language is the embodiment of the human experience.
“There are so many ways in which language affects every-one’s daily life, not to mention just courtship and attraction and the kind of humor that draws people together,” Vaid said. “There are a number of reasons why language is such a central kind of phenomenon and yet we take it for granted. But it does a lot of work on many levels for us.”
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this event is important because it sheds light on the harsh reality faced by students of minority races. Hearing from two former students about their experiences will be eye opening, she said.
“If you talk to students of various races, I guarantee you will hear some stories of how they were discriminated against in some fash-ion regarding race,” Martin said. “The Uni-versity likes to focus on the word ‘diversity,’ though, and in time we will all hopefully be able to represent that to its fullest.”
Wednesday’s event is part of the “Day of Engagement” put on by the Texas A&M Uni-versity’s 50th Anniversary of Inclusion com-mittee to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the admittance of African-Americans and
women to the University. “Our sophomore members have been hand-
ing out fliers this week in the MSC and there are large foam board signs in Rudder Plaza helping to spread awareness,” Richardson said. “Anybody who walks by is invited to come and learn from our former students.”
Krance said he hopes the event will help promote learning opportunities for students on campus.
“We are an organization dedicated to de-veloping sophomore leaders while providing leadership opportunities for all of campus,” Krance said. “You cannot force people to learn, they have to have a genuine interest. It is my hope that students at A&M are interested in our University’s past and seek to learn from it.”
The event is free and the first 150 students will receive a free T-shirt.
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“Maybe [language brokering]
is something that teachers should take into account. This is an advanced skill that children are learning. How can they incorporate that into education?”
— Belem Lopez, psychology
graduate student working in the language and cognition lab
