Jamal A. Khlifat is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. He is also an instructor at the Program for Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research interests include bilingualism and its impact on semantics and phonological awareness, lexical semantics, phonetics, phonology (pharyngealization and pharyngeal harmony in Levantine Arabic, and rhetoric and Toulmin-style of argumentation. Pui Fong Kan is an associate professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her MA and Ph.D. in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences from the University of Minnesota in 2002 and 2008. Her general research interests involve child language learning, language disorders, and bilingualism. Her current research focuses on cognitive language processing in monolingual and bilingual children. Specifically, she examines the roles of language experience and cognitive processing ability in language learning. In her research projects, she works extensively with children who speak a minority language at home from birth and start to learn English as a second language in school settings. In addition, she has worked clinically with bilingual children and adults in medical settings as well as in educational settings. In her recent work, she examines developing bilingual children’s skills in learning new spoken words in their home language and their second language.