Contact Information

Business Address:
Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences
University at Buffalo - The State University of New York
122 Cary Hall
Buffalo, NY 14214

Professional Service

Reviewer, International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2010

Reviewer, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2009

Reviewer, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2008

Professional Membership

Member, Taiwan Association of Speech and Hearing

Member, The National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA)

Member, DeLTA (Development & Learning from Theory to Application) Center, University of Iowa

Teaching Experience

2007, 2008
Instructor, Introduction to Speech and Hearing Processes and Disorders, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Iowa

2007
Teaching Assistant, Psychology of Language, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Iowa

2005
Teaching Assistant, Language Development, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Iowa

1997-1999
English Teacher, National Chengchi University Experimental Elementary School, Taipei, Taiwan

Research Experience

2008-present
Research Assistant, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics
Project: Tense Marking in English-speaking Children with Cochlear Implants

2006-2007
Research Assistant, Neurogenic Language Disorders Lab, University of Iowa
Project: Phonological Effects on Word Retrieval in Aphasia and Aging

2005-2006
Research Assistant, Word Learning Lab, University of Iowa
Project: Production of Compound Words in Children with and without Specific Language Impairment

2005
Research Assistant, Grammar Acquisition Lab, University of Iowa
Project: Acquisition of Complement Clauses

2004
Research Assistant, Motor Speech Lab, University of Iowa
Project: Treating Interarticulator Coordination in Apraxia of Speech with Variable Practice

2003-2005
Research Assistant, Child Language Research Center, University of Iowa
Project: Statistical Learning and Word Segmentation

1998-1999
Research Assistant, Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Project: Consonant Duration in the Speech of Taiwanese Speakers with Neurogenic Disorders

1995-1997
Research Assistant, National Science Council, Taiwan

Clinical Experience

2001-2003
Speech-Language Pathologist, Department of Otolaryngology, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan

Honors and Awards

2009
Trainee Scholarship Award, The 12th Symposium on Cochlear Implants in Children

2009
NIH Travel Award, The 30th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD)


2008
Graduate College Summer Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Iowa

2008
Student Travel Awards, The 29th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD)

2007
Scholarship, Summer Institute in Communication Sciences and Disorders, Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders

2007
Kenneth T. Key Scholarship, Graduate College, University of Iowa

2007
Travel Awards, The 5th Research Conference: Lessons for Success, American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHF)

2005
Travel Awards, 2005 Convention of the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA)

2005
Student Travel Awards, The 26th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD)

2003-present
Graduate Assistantship, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Iowa

1998
Scholarship, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

1998
Scholarship, Chiang Jing-kuo International Academy Exchange Foundation, Taiwan

1998
Scholarship, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

1996
Outstanding Student, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

1996
Honorary Member, Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China, Taiwan

1995, 1996
Scholarship, Foundation of Academic Development, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

1994, 1995
Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan

1993-1996
Excellent Student Awards, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Scientific Presentations

Guo, L., Owen, A., & Tomblin, J. B. (2010, November). Abstractness of representations of auxiliary BE in young English-speaking children. Paper to be presented at The 2010 American Speech-Language-Hearing Society Convention, Philadelphia, USA.

Guo, L., Owen, A., & Tomblin, J. B. (2010, June). Three accounts of case errors of subject pronouns in young English-speaking children. Poster presented at The 31st Annudal Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
http://www.srcld.org/Archive/PresentationDetail.aspx?SUBID=2361

Eisenberg, S., & Guo, L. (2010, June). How grammatical are three-year-olds? Poster presented at The 31st Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madion, Wisconsin, USA.
http://www.srcld.org/Archive/PresentationDetail.aspx?SUBID=2494

Owens, R., Guo, L., & Spencer, L. (2009, November). Revisiting language samples: The assessment method we love to hate. Seminar presented at The 2009 Convention of American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New Orleans, USA.

Guo, L., Tomblin, J.B., & Spencer, L. (2009, June). Tense marking in English-speaking children with cochlear implants: The role of speech production, speech perception, and length of auditory deprivation. Paper presented at The 12th Symposium on Cochlear Implants in Children, American College of Surgeons, Seattle, USA.

Guo, L., Owen, A., & Tomblin, J.B. (2009, June). The effect of subject types on the production of auxiliary ‘is’ in young English-speaking children. Poster presented at The 30th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
http://www.srcld.org/Archive/PresentationDetail.aspx?SUBID=2233

Guo, L., Spencer, L., Tomblin, J. B., & Walker, B. (2008, November). Acquisition of tense marking in children with cochlear implants: A surface hypothesis account. Paper presented at The 33th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, Boston, USA.

Guo, L., Spencer, L., Tomblin, J. B., Walker, B., & Gantz, B. (2008, November). Acquisition of tense marking in children with cochlear implants. Paper presented at The 2008 Convention of American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Illinois, USA.

Guo, L., Tomblin, J. B., & Owen, A. (2008, June). The effect of subject types, predicate types, and input frequency on the production of copula ‘is’: Case studies. Poster presented at The 29th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
http://www.srcld.org/Archive/PresentationDetail.aspx?SUBID=2151

McGregor, K., Rost, G., & Guo, L. (2007, June). Are children with SLI challenged by the lexical or grammatical components of compound words? Poster presented at The 28th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
http://www.srcld.org/Archive/PresentationDetail.aspx?SUBID=1947

Guo, L., Tomblin, J. B., & Samelson, V. (2006, November). Pauses in the narratives of English-speaking children with SLI. Paper presented at The 2006 Convention of American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Florida, USA.

Guo, L., & Tomblin, J. B. (2005, June). Pauses in the narratives of English-speaking children with SLI. Poster presented at The 26th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Ballard, K. Maas, E. Robin, D., & Guo, L. (2005, June). Treating interarticulator coordination in apraxia of speech with variable practice. Paper presented at The 35th Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA.

Guo, L., Yiu, C., Lin, Y., Hsu, C., & Huang, H. (2003, January). Consonants in Mandarin alaryngeal speech. Paper presented at The 2003 Annual Meeting of Speech-Language-Hearing Association of Republic of China, Taichung, Taiwan.

Guo, L., Lin, Y., & Hsu, S. (2002, November). Adjustment disorder in individuals with hearing impairment: A case study. Paper presented at the Conference on Mental Health, Education and Communication of the Deaf People, National Tainan Teacher’s College, Taiwan.

Guo, L., Lin, Y., Hsu, C., Huang, H., & Yiu, C. (2002, November). Lexical tones in Mandarin alaryngeal speech: An acoustic and perceptual study. Paper presented at The Eighth International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Guo, L., Yiu, C., Lin, Y., Hsu, C., & Huang, H. (2002, November). Intelligibility of consonants and lexical tones in Mandarin alaryngeal speech: A preliminary study. Poster presented at The Third Asia Pacific Conference on Speech, Language and Hearing, Taichung, Taiwan.

Guo, L., Lin, Y., & Chiu, M. (2002, January). The effect of Botox on Taiwanese adductor spasmodic dysphonia: A case report. Paper presented at The 2002 Annual Meeting of Speech-Language-Hearing Association of Republic of China, Taipei, Taiwan

Guo, L. (2001, May). Mandarin loanword phonology and optimality theory: Evidence from transliterated American state names and typhoon names. Paper presented at The Seventh International Symposium on Chinese Phonology, Taipei, Taiwan.
http://dspace.wul.waseda.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2065/12118/1/PACLIC13-191-202.pdf

Guo, L. (1999, July). Consonant duration in the speech of Taiwanese neurogenic dysarthrics. Paper presented at The Fourth Conference on Phonetics and Phonology in China, Institute of Acoustics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China.

Guo, L. (1998, May). Prosodic cues and given/new information in Mandarin speech. Paper presented at the Conference on Phonetics of the Languages in China, May 28-30, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Guo, L. (1998, March). A constraint-based analysis to Yami reduplication. Paper presented at The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA.
http://ling.uwo.ca/afla/meetings/afla5/abstracts/guo_a_constraint_based_analysis_to_yami_reduplication.pdf

Guo, L. (1998). A prosodic-morphology approach to Yami reduplication. In T. Wang (ed.), Proceedings of 1998 National Conference on English Literature and Linguistics (pp. 137-153). Taipei: Crane.

Guo, L. (1998). Fundamental frequency and given/new information: A preliminary study. In L. Huang (ed.), Proceedings of 1997 National Conference on English/American Literature and Linguistics, Taipei: Crane.

Publications

Guo, L., Owen, A., & Tomblin, J. B. (under revision). The role of developmental levels in examining the effect of subject types on the production of auxiliary 'is' in young English-speaking children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Guo, L., Owen, A., & Tomblin, J. B. (in press). The effect of subject types on the production of auxiliary 'is' in young English-speaking children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

McGregor, K., Rost, G., Guo, L., & Sheng, L. (2010). What compound words mean to children with SLI. Applied Psycholinguistics, 31, 463-487. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=7792917&jid=&volumeId=&issueId=03&aid=7792915&bodyId=&membershipNumber=&societyETOCSession=

Guo, L, Tomblin, J. B., & Samelson, V. (2008). Speech disruptions in the narratives of English-speaking children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 51, 722-738. http://jslhr.highwire.org/cgi/content/abstract/51/3/722

Guo, L., Yiu, C., Lin, Y., Hsu, C., & Huang, H. (2005). Stop consonants in Mandarin alaryngeal speech: An acoustic and perceptual study. Journal of the Speech-Language-Hearing Association of Republic of China, 18, 36-56. (In Mandarin) http://www.ceps.com.tw/ec/ecjnlarticleView.aspx?atliid=869841&issueiid=48313&jnliid=457

Guo, L., Lin, Y., & Chiu, M. (2003). An acoustic and perceptual analysis to the effect of botulinum toxin on Taiwanese adductor spasmodic dysphonia: A case report. Journal of the Speech-Language-Hearing Association of Republic of China, 17, 47-62. (In Mandarin)
http://www.ceps.com.tw/ec/ecjnlarticleView.aspx?atliid=15667&issueiid=1351&jnliid=457

Huang, H., Wang, C., & Guo, L. (2003). Fundamental frequency, intensity, and stability of Mandarin vowels /i/, /a/, and /u/: An acoustic study. Journal of the Speech- Language-Hearing Association of Republic of China, 17, 31-44. (In Mandarin)http://www.ceps.com.tw/ec/ecjnlarticleView.aspx?atliid=15666&issueiid=1351&jnliid=457

Guo, L., Chiu, M., Chang, C., Lee, S., & Hong, G. (2000). Consonant duration in Taiwanese flaccid and spastic dysarthria and its clinical significance. Journal of the Speech-Language-Hearing Association of Republic of China, 15, 11-23. (In Mandarin)
http://www.ceps.com.tw/ec/ecjnlarticleView.aspx?atliid=15645&issueiid=1349&jnliid=457

Research Grants

Guo, L. (2010). Acquisition of copula and auxiliary BE in English-speaking children with specific language impairment. Language Learning Small Grant. Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies, Blackwell Publishing, $10,000, P.I.

Guo, L. (2007). Acquisition of copula and auxiliary BE in English-speaking children. Language Learning Dissertation Grant. Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies, Blackwell Publishing, $1500, P.I.

Guo, L. (2006). Acquisition of copula and auxiliary BE in English-speaking children. The 2006 Student Research Grant in Early Childhood Language. American Speech-Language- Hearing Foundation (ASHF), $2000, P.I.

Yiu, C., Lin, Y., & Guo, L. (2002). Lexical tones in Mandarin alaryngeal speech: An acoustic and perceptual study. Chi Mei Medical Center Research Grant, $8000, Co-P.I.

Research Interests

  1. Grammatical development and deficits in normal and special populations (children with specific language impairment, hearing impairment, autism spectrum disorders)
  2. Input frequency and language processing/acquisition
  3. Prosody and syntactic acquisition
  4. Language learning mechanisms, with particular interests in analogy and statistical learning
  5. Development of conversational, narrative and expository discourse skills in children

Education

2003-2009
Ph.D., Speech and Hearing Science
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Major: Child Language Development and Disorders
Dissertation Title: Acquisition of Copula and Auxiliary BE in English-Speaking Children

1996-1999
Master of Arts, Linguistics
National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Major: Phonetics and Phonological Theories
Thesis: Consonant Duration in the Speech of Taiwanese-speaking Adults with Dysarthria: An Acoustic Study

1992-1996
Bachelor of Arts, English (Graduated Valedictorian)
National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Minor: Education

Academic Position

2010-Present
Assistant Professor
Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences
University at Buffalo - The State University of New York
Buffalo, NY

2009-2010
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ