Linguistics Faculty Publications

Input and Processing Factors Affecting Infants’ Vocabulary Size at 19 and 25 Months

Song, Jae Yung; Demuth, Katherine; Morgan, James (2018-11-30)

This study examined the relative contributions of three factors to individual differences in vocabulary development: the acoustic quality of mothers’ speech, the quantity of mothers’ speech, and infants’ ability to recognize ...
A new test for exemplar theory: Varying versus non-varying words in Spanish

Pycha, Anne (2017-01-01)

We used a Deese-Roediger-McDermott false memory paradigm to compare Spanish words in which the phonetic realization of /s/ can vary (word-medial positions: bu[s]to ~ bu[h]to ‘chest’, word-final positions: remo[s] ~ remo[h] ...