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LouAnn Gerken

Professor, Psychology | Professor, Second Language Acquisition / Teaching - GIDP | Professor, Cognitive Science - GIDP | Professor, Cognitive Science | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Professor, Speech and Hearing Science | Professor, Linguistics

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Clayton Morrison
Andrew Carnie
Elena Plante
Michael Hammond
Dianne Patterson

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Grants(13)

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Publications(73)

Recent

Not all procedural learning tasks are difficult for adults with developmental language disorder

2021

procedural learning, developmental language disorder, adults, learning tasks, difficulty

Infants' discrimination of consonant contrasts in the presence and absence of talker variability

2021

infant language development, speech perception, auditory processing, phonetic discrimination, talker variability

Behavioral and Imaging Studies of Infant Artificial Grammar Learning

2020

infant development, cognitive neuroscience, language acquisition, cognitive development, neuroimaging

An alternative to the procedural∼declarative memory account of developmental language disorder

2020

memory, language development, cognitive development, developmental disorders, linguistics

Experience with morphosyntactic paradigms allows toddlers to tacitly anticipate overregularized verb forms months before they produce them

2019

linguistic development, child language acquisition, morphosyntactic paradigms, verb forms, language learning

Adults fail to learn a type of linguistic pattern that is readily learned by infants.

2019

language acquisition, adult learning, linguistic patterns, cognitive development, neuroplasticity

Some considerations for adding reference back into early language development

2018

language development, early childhood, reference, linguistics, child development

How who is talking matters as much as what they say to infant language learners

2018

language development, social interaction, infant communication, linguistic input, speech perception

Infant Learning is Influenced by Local Spurious Generalizations

2017

infant learning, spurious generalizations, cognitive development, language acquisition, perceptual categorization

The Distribution of Talker Variability Impacts Infants’ Word Learning

2017

language acquisition, infant development, speech perception, psycholinguistics, cognitive development