Research in the Child Language Ability lab focuses on narrative assessment and code-switching in school-age speakers who are bidialectal — having facility with both African American English (AAE) and Mainstream American English (MAE). Current projects include the following: (a) determining the impact of AAE dialect density and narrative type on adult ratings of the integrity of children’s narration, (b) identifying eye-gaze pattern profiles in bidialectal speakers with- and without developmental language disorders and (c) determining relationships among social capital, social class, and children’s narration.