Browsing by Author "Burnham, Denis"
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Acoustic features of infant-directed speech to infants with hearing loss
Lovcevic, Irena; Kalashnikova, Marina; Burnham, Denis (The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2020)This study investigated the effects of hearing loss and hearing experience on the acoustic features of infant-directed speech (IDS) to infants with hearing loss (HL) compared to controls with normal hearing (NH) matched ... -
Delayed development of phonological constancy in toddlers at family risk for dyslexia
Kalashnikova, Marina; Goswami, Usha; Burnham, Denis (Infant Behavior and Development, 2019)Phonological constancy refers to infants’ ability to disregard variations in the phonetic realisation of speech sounds that do not indicate lexical contrast, e.g., when listening to accented speech. In typically-developing ... -
Depression and Anxiety in the Postnatal Period: An Examination of Infants' Home Language Environment, Vocalizations, and Expressive Language Abilities
Brookman, Ruth; Kalashnikova, Marina; Conti, Janet; Rattanasone, Nan Xu; Grant, Kerry-Ann; Demuth, Katherine; Burnham, Denis (Child Development, 2020)This longitudinal study investigated the effects of maternal emotional health concerns, on infants' home language environment, vocalization quantity, and expressive language skills. Mothers and their infants (at 6 and 12 ... -
Effects of maternal depression on maternal responsiveness and infants’ expressive language abilities
Brookman, Ruth; Kalashnikova, Marina; Levickis, Penny; Conti, Janet; Ruttanasone, Nan Xu; Grant, Kerry-Ann; Demuth, Katherine; Burnham, Denis (PLOS, 2023)High levels of maternal responsiveness are associated with healthy cognitive and emotional development in infants. However, depression and anxiety can negatively impact individual mothers’ responsiveness levels and ... -
Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD
Peter, Varghese; Goswami, Usha; Burnham, Denis; Kalashnikova, Marina (ELSEVIER, 2023)Neural synchronization to amplitude-modulated noise at three frequencies (2 Hz, 5 Hz, 8 Hz) thought to be important for syllable perception was investigated in English-speaking school-aged children. The theoretically-important ... -
Infants’ Sensitivity to Lexical Tone and Word Stress in Their First Year: A Thai and English Cross- Language Study
Kalashnikova, Marina; Onsuwan, Chutamanee; Burnham, Denis (Taylor & Francis, 2022)Non-tone language infants’ native language recognition is based first on supra-segmental then segmental cues, but this trajectory is unknown for tone-language infants. This study investigated non-tone (English) and ... -
Infant‐directed speech to infants at risk for dyslexia: A novel cross‐dyad design
Kalashnikova, Marina; Goswami, Usha; Burnham, Denis (Wiley, 2020)When mothers speak to infants at risk for developmental dyslexia, they do not hyperarticulate vowels in their infant‐directed speech (IDS). Here, we used an innovative cross‐dyad design to investigate whether the absence ... -
Language development in infants with hearing loss: Benefits of infant-directed speech
Lovcevic, Irena; Burnham, Denis; Kalashnikova, Marina (ELSEVIER, 2022)The majority of infants with permanent congenital hearing loss fall significantly behind their normal hearing peers in the development of receptive and expressive oral communication skills. Independent of any prosthetic ... -
Language specificity in cortical tracking of speech rhythm at the mora, syllable, and foot levels
Peter, Varghese; van Ommen, Sandrien; Kalashnikova, Marina; Mazuka, Reiko; Nazzi, Thierry; Burnham, Denis (NATURE, 2022)Recent research shows that adults’ neural oscillations track the rhythm of the speech signal. However, the extent to which this tracking is driven by the acoustics of the signal, or by language-specific processing remains ... -
Maternal Depression Affects Infants’ Lexical Processing Abilities in the Second Year of Life
Brookman, Ruth; Kalashnikova, Marina; Conti, Janet; Rattanasone, Nan Xu; Grant, Kerry-Ann; Demuth, Katherine; Burnham, Denis (Brain sciences, 2020)Maternal depression and anxiety have been proposed to increase the risk of adverse outcomes of language development in the early years of life. This study investigated the e ects of maternal depression and anxiety on ... -
Novel word learning deficits in infants at family risk for dyslexia
Kalashnikova, Marina; Goswami, Usha; Burnham, Denis (Dyslexia, 2020)Children of reading age diagnosed with dyslexia show deficits in reading and spelling skills, but early markers of later dyslexia are already present in infancy in auditory processing and phonological domains. Deficits ... -
Rhythm discrimination and metronome tapping in 4-year-old children at risk for developmental dyslexia
Kalashnikova, Marina; Burnham, Denis; Goswami, Usha (Cognitive Development, 2021)Temporally accurate perception and production of rhythmic patterns are key factors related to language development and reading acquisition. Here we investigate rhythm discrimination and rhythm production in children who ... -
Seeing a Talking Face Matters: Gaze Behavior and the Auditory–Visual Speech Benefit in Adults’ Cortical Tracking of Infant-directed Speech
Tan, Sok Hui Jessica; Kalashnikova, Marina; Di Liberto, Giovanni M.; Crosse, Michael J.; Burnham, Denis (MIT PRESS, 2023)In face-to-face conversations, listeners gather visual speech information from a speaker's talking face that enhances their perception of the incoming auditory speech signal. This auditory-visual (AV) speech benefit is ... -
Seeing a talking face matters: Infants' segmentation of continuous auditory-visual speech
Tan, Sok Hui Jessica; Kalashnikova, Marina; Burnham, Denis (WILEY, 2023)Visual speech cues from a speaker's talking face aid speech segmentation in adults, but despite the importance of speech segmentation in language acquisition, little is known about the possible influence of visual speech ... -
Seeing a talking face matters: The relationship between cortical tracking of continuous auditory ‐visual speech and gaze behaviour in infants, children and adults
Tan, S.H. Jessica; Kalashnikova, Marina; Di Liberto, Giovanni M.; Crosse, Michael J.; Burnham, Denis (ELSEVIER, 2022)An auditory-visual speech benefit, the benefit that visual speech cues bring to auditory speech perception, is experienced from early on in infancy and continues to be experienced to an increasing degree with age. While ... -
Sensitivity to amplitude envelope rise time in infancy and vocabulary development at 3 years: A significant relationship
Kalashnikova, Marina; Goswami, Usha; Burnham, Denis (Developmental Science, 2019)Here we report, for the first time, a relationship between sensitivity to amplitude envelope rise time in infants and their later vocabulary development. Recent research in auditory neuroscience has revealed that amplitude ... -
The Role of Paired Associate Learning in Acquiring Letter-Sound Correspondences: A Longitudinal Study of Children at Family Risk for Dyslexia
Kalashnikova, Marina; Burnham, Denis; Goswami, Usha (Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021)Visual-verbal-paired associate learning (PAL) is strongly related to reading acquisition, possibly indexing a distinct cross-modal mechanism for learning letter-sound associations. We measured linguistic abilities (nonword ... -
The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups
Liu, Liquan; Lai, Regine; Singh, Leher; Kalashnikova, Marina; Wong, Patrick C.M.; Kasisopa, Benjawan; Chen, Ao; Onsuwan, Chutamanee; Burnham, Denis (ELSEVIER, 2022)Some prior investigations suggest that tone perception is flexible, reasonably independent of native phonology, whereas others suggest it is constrained by native phonology. We address this issue in a systematic and ...