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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Depression and Anxiety in the Postnatal Period: An Examination of Infants' Home Language Environment, Vocalizations, and Expressive Language Abilities
(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 ...
Prosodic cues in infant-directed speech facilitate young children’s conversational turn predictions
(Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2020)
Experienced language users are able to predict when conversational
turns approach completion, which allows them to attend
to and comprehend their interlocutor’s speech while planning
and accurately timing their response. ...
Infant‐directed speech to infants at risk for dyslexia: A novel cross‐dyad design
(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 ...