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My main interest is language development and its relation to learning more generally. Recent work in my lab focuses on similarities of music and language learning, experience-related changes in what can be learned, learning and retention of single-feature vs. multi-feature rules, and the relation between learning and emotion.Show Less
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Courses
- ALAnimal Learning
- LDLanguage Development
- ICDIntroduction to Cognitive Development
- TLDTheories of Language Development
Grants
- A Developmental Framework For Linking Phonological And Morpho-Syntactic Sequential Pattern Rules In Developmental Language Disorder
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$871.2K
Active - Comparing Infants' and Adults' Learning of Three Types of Linguistic Generalizations
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$316.0K
- Age and Group Differences in Language-Learning Biases
Co-Investigator (COI)
2014
$188.5K
- Imaging Learning in Developmental Language Disorder
Co-Investigator (COI)
2011
$2.1M
- The Role of Sleep in Language Learning and Abstraction
Co-Investigator (COI)
2011
$400.9K
- The Role of Variability in Infants' Phonological Learning
Co-Investigator (COI)
2011
$144.6K
- How much input is required for infant language learning: Exploring the distribution of types and tokens
Principal Investigator (PI)
2010
$394.1K
- Receptive Language Skills in Developmental Language Disorder
Co-Investigator (COI)
2009
$161.5K
- Receptive Language Skills in Developmental Language Disorder
Co-Investigator (COI)
2008
$1.3M
- ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers
Co-Investigator (COI)
2006
$3.3M
News
- UA Experts Address the Value of Nursery Rhymes
2016
- Understanding Infant Language Learning
2010
- College of Science Spring Lectures Focus on "Mind and Brain"
2010
- UA Awarded $3.3 Million to Increase Participation by Women in Science and Engineering
2006
- Tweety Lab to Explore Innate Language Abilities of Infants
2004
- Provost Invites Faculty to Forum on Cognitive Science, Neuroscience
2003
- UA Tweety Lab Studies How Babies Learn Language
2002
- UA is National Highlight During Better Hearing & Speech Month
2001
- So Simple A Child Can Do It
2001
Publications (74)
Recent
- Not all procedural learning tasks are difficult for adults with developmental language disorder
2021
- Infants' discrimination of consonant contrasts in the presence and absence of talker variability
2021
- An alternative to the procedural∼declarative memory account of developmental language disorder
2020
- Behavioral and Imaging Studies of Infant Artificial Grammar Learning
2020
- Adults fail to learn a type of linguistic pattern that is readily learned by infants.
2019
- Experience with morphosyntactic paradigms allows toddlers to tacitly anticipate overregularized verb forms months before they produce them
2019
- How who is talking matters as much as what they say to infant language learners
2018
- Some considerations for adding reference back into early language development
2018
- The Distribution of Talker Variability Impacts Infants’ Word Learning
2017
- Infant Learning is Influenced by Local Spurious Generalizations
2017
- Prosody as a cue to hierarchical structure for toddlers and adults
2016
- Infants generalize from just (the right) four words
2015
- The acoustic salience of prosody trumps infants' acquired knowledge of language-specific prosodic patterns
2015
- Does hearing two dialects at different times help infants learn dialect-specific rules?
2015
- From pauses to clauses: prosody facilitates learning of syntactic constituency
2014
- Surprise! Infants consider possible bases of generalization for a single input example
2014
- What Influences Children's Conceptualizations of Language Input?
2013
- The role of morphophonological regularity in young Spanish-speaking children's production of gendered noun phrases
2012
- Can rational models be good accounts of developmental change? The case of language development at two time scales
2012
- State of rest in 17-month old infants differentially affects attention to new information
2012
- When global structure Explains Away local grammar: A Bayesian account of rule-induction in tone sequences
2011
- Beyond phonotactic frequency: Presentation frequency effects word productions in specific language impairment
2011
- Contributions of phonetic token variability and word-type frequency to phonological representations.
2011
- When global structure
2011
- Infants avoid “laboring in vain” by attending more to learnable than unlearnable linguistic patterns
2011
- Children with specific language impairment show rapid, implicit learning of stress assignment rules
2010
- Infants use rational decision criteria for choosing among models of their input
2010
- Contributions of phonetic token variability and word-type frequency to phonological representations
2010
- From domain-generality to domain-sensitivity: 4-Month-olds learn an abstract repetition rule in music that 7-month-olds do not
2009
- Learning to learn differently: The emergence of domain-sensitive generalization in the second six months of life
2009
- Statistical frequency in perception affects children's lexical production
2009
- Processing prosodic structure by adults with language-based learning disability
2009
- Three-year-old children can access their own memory to guide responses on a visual matching task
2008
- Acquiring Linguistic Structure
2008
- Three exemplars allow at least some linguistic generalizations: Implications for generalization mechanisms and constraints
2008
- Relations between segmental and motor variability in prosodically complex nonword sequences
2007
- The role of prior experience in language acquisition
2007
- Do children and adults with language impairment recognize prosodic cues?
2007
- 4-month-olds discover algebraic patterns in music that 7.5-month-olds do not
2006
- Editors' report for volume 49
2006
- Decisions, decisions: Infant language learning when multiple generalizations are possible
2006
- Does implicit metacognition provide a tool for self-guided learning in preschool children?
2006
- Subcategory learning in normal and language learning-disabled adults: how much information do they need?
2006
- Infants can use distributional cues to form syntactic categories
2005
- The acquisition of phonology based on input: A closer look at the relation of cross-linguistic and child language data
2005
- 17-month-olds can use distributionalcues to form syntactic categories
2005
- A model of infant learning of word stress
2005
- What develops in language development?
2005
- Nine-month-olds extract structural principles required for natural language
2004
- Do children's omissions leave traces?
2004
- Phonotactic probabilities in young children's speech production
2004
- Similarities in weak syllable omissions between children with specific language impairment and normally developing language: a preliminary report
2003
- Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination
2002
- Sensitivity to word order cues by normal and language/learning disabled adults
2002
- The basis of transfer in artificial grammar learning
2000
- Infant artificial language learning and language acquisition
2000
- Grammatical and caregiver cues in early sentence comprehension
1999
- Artificial grammar learning by 1-year-olds leads to specific and abstract knowledge
1999
- An Overview of Prosody and Its Role in Normal and Disordered Child Language
1998
- Sensitivity to grammatical morphemes in children with specific language impairment
1998
- An electrophysiological study of infants' sensitivity to the sound patterns of English speech
1998
- The influence of Lexical familiarity on children's function morpheme omissions: A nonmetrical effect?
1997
- Prosody's Role in Language Acquisition and Adult Parsing
1996
- Prosodic structure in young children's Language Production
1996
- Do English-learning infants use syllable weight to determine stress?
1995
- Three- and four-year-olds' perceptual confusions for spoken words
1995
- The head-turn preference procedure for testing auditory perception
1995
- When prosody fails to cue syntactic structure: 9-month-olds' sensitivity to phonological versus syntactic phrases
1994
- Young Children′s Representation of Prosodic Phonology: Evidence From English-Speakers′ Weak Syllable Productions
1994
- A metrical template account of children's weak syllable omissions from multisyllabic words.
1994
- Interplay of Function Morphemes and Prosody in Early Language
1993
- The metrical basis for children's subjectless sentences
1991
- Function Morphemes in Young Children's Speech Perception and Production
1990
- Linguistic intuitions are the result of interactions between perceptual processes and linguistic universals
1986