Professional Background
Associate Professor of Speech & Language Pathology and Director, Neurocognition of Language Lab, and Assistant Professor of Speech Language Pathology, Department of Biobehavioral Sciences.
Educational Background
PhD Linguistics,
MA Linguistics (Distinction),
BSc (Hons) Clinical Communication Sciences (1st Class), Central
Scholarly Interests
Neural underpinnings of language representation and processing, especially in pathological situations: developmental and acquired speech and language disorders; language and cognitive processing in schizophrenia. Neural correlates of second language acquisition in adults. Contributions of cognitive neuroscience to determining efficacy and mechanisms of change in speech-language pathology and educational interventions.
Selected Publications
Galgano, J. & Froud, K. (2008). Evidence of the Voice-Related Cortical Potential: an electroencephalographic study. NeuroImage, 41, 1313-1323. (Also Corrigendum. NeuroImage 42, published online July 2008.)
Froud, K. & van der Lely, H.K.J. (2008). The count-mass distinction in typically developing and grammatically specifically language impaired children: new evidence on the role of syntax and semantics. Journal of Communication Disorders, 41, 274-303.
Khamis-Dakwar, R., & Froud, K. (2007). Lexical processing in two language varieties: an event-related brain potential study of Arabic native speakers. In Mughazy, M. (Ed.) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XX, 153-166.
Froud, K. (2006). Unaccusativity as lexical argument reduction: evidence from aphasia. Lingua, 116, 1631-1650.
Gardner, H., Froud, K., McLelland, A. & van der Lely, H.K.J. (2006). The development of the Grammar and Phonology Screening (GAPS) test to assess key markers of specific language difficulties in young children. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 41 (5), 513-540.
Allen, K., Carlile, S., Alais, D. & Froud, K. (2005). Persistence of auditory streaming preserves release from masking. Canadian Acoustics, 33, 3, 46-47.
Druks, J. & Froud, K. (2002). The syntax of single words: evidence from a patient with a function word deficit. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 19(3), 207-244.
Froud, K. (2001). Prepositions and the lexical / functional divide: aphasic evidence. Lingua, 111, 1-28.
Froud, K. (1998). Aphasic evidence for the syntactic determination of unaccusativity. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics, 10, 1-18.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Froud, K. (in press). Understanding and addressing the theory-to-practice divide in clinical training and practice. To appear in Bowen, C. (Ed.), Children’s Speech Sound Disorders.
van der Lely, H.K.J., Froud, K., Gardner, H., McLelland, A. (2007). The grammar and phonology screening test (GAPS).
Bury, D., Froud, K., Horsey, R. & Szendroi, K. (Eds.) (2004). Focus and the interaction between syntax and pragmatics. Lingua, 114, 3, 227-388.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Froud, K., Titone, D., Marantz, A. & Levy, D.L. (submitted). Brain/behavior asymmetry in schizophrenia: a preliminary MEG study of cross-modal semantic priming in schizophrenia. Journal of Neurolinguistics.
Froud, K. & Khamis-Dakwar, R. Diglossic variety switching: an event-related potential study of Arabic native speakers. (In preparation.)
Khamis-Dakwar, R., Froud, K., & Gordon, P. Syntactic and morphological development in Arabic diglossia. (In preparation.)
Purdy, J.D. & Froud, K. Electrophysiological evidence for L1 interference in L2 sentence processing. (In preparation.)
Froud, K., Galgano, J., Randazzo, M. & Krieger, L. Acoustic and Spirometric Correlates of Phonation in Young and Middle-Aged Adults. (In preparation.)
Galgano, J. & Froud, K. Age-related changes of the voice-related cortical potential (VRCP). (In preparation.)
Karen Froud
Associate Professor of Speech & Language Pathology
Director, Neurocognition of Language Lab, and Assistant Professor of Speech Language Pathology, Department of Biobehavioral Sciences.
Phone: 212-678-3033
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Web site: http://www.kfroud.net