Recent presentation @ H-LRF: "Assessing the validity of lexical variety indices using direct judgements across prepared speech tasks"
Hello! My name is Kelly Kendro, and I am a PhD candidate in applied linguistics at Northern Arizona University, advised by Scott Jarvis.
My primary research interests lie in multilingualism and psycholinguistics, specifically executive functioning and cross-linguistic influence in understudied multilingual populations during the processes of language acquisition and attrition. I am also interested in internet-mediated language interactions and sociolinguistic variation, broadly defined.
Upcoming presentations:
Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)
Flagstaff, AZ
September 25-28, 2025
Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference (LCL)
Provo, UT
October 24, 2025
Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
New Orleans, LA
January 8-11, 2026
Recent presentations:
Hiroshima Lexical Research Forum (H-LRF)
Virtual
September 13-14, 2025
2025 Five Minute Linguist lightning talk
(honorable mention; also given at ROLE 2025)