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Acoustic features of infant-directed speech to infants with hearing loss
(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 ...
The effects of bilingualism on attentional processes in the first year of life
(Developmental Science, 2021)
Bilingualism is a powerful experiential factor, and its effects have been proposed to
extend beyond the linguistic domain by boosting the development of executive functioning
skills. Crucially, recent findings suggest ...
The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups
(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 ...
Maternal Depression Affects Infants’ Lexical Processing Abilities in the Second Year of Life
(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 ...
Language specificity in cortical tracking of speech rhythm at the mora, syllable, and foot levels
(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 ...
The Acoustic Features and Didactic Function of Foreigner-Directed Speech: A Scoping Review
(ASHA, 2022)
Purpose: This scoping review considers the acoustic features of a clear
speech register directed to nonnative listeners known as foreigner-directed
speech (FDS). We identify vowel hyperarticulation and low speech rate ...
Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD
(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 ...
Novel word learning deficits in infants at family risk for dyslexia
(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 ...
Infants use phonetic detail in speech perception and word learning when detail is easy to perceive
(Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2020)
Infants successfully discriminate speech sound contrasts that belong
to their native language’s phonemic inventory in auditory-only paradigms,
but they encounter difficulties in distinguishing the same
contrasts in the ...
Acceptance of lexical overlap by monolingual and bilingual toddlers
(International Journal of Bilingualism, 2019)
Aims and Objectives: Mutual exclusivity refers to children’s assumption that there are oneto-one correspondences between words and their referents. It is proposed to guide the process of fast-mapping when children encounter ...