#60;b#62;Eva M. Fernfndez#60;/b#62; is Associate Professor at Queens College, City University of New York. She is also affiliated with the CUNY Graduate Center#8242;s Programs in Linguistics and in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, and currently directs Queens College's Center for Teaching and Learning. #60;br#62; #60;br#62;#60;b#62;Helen Smith Cairns#60;/b#62; is Professor Emerita at Queens College, City University of New York. She is affiliated with the CUNY Graduate Programs in Linguistics and in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. Her research and scholarship are in the areas of adult sentence processing and first language acquisition in children.