Research
Main interests
My work is primarily on phonological development. Within that area, there are several topics that I am particularly interested in:
- Prosodic development
- The relationship between phonological and lexical development
- The role of the linguistic input on phonological and lexical development
- Individual differences in phonology
And here are some findings I've made along the way...
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Infants find words with repeated syllables easier to segment and learn.
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Children master accurate production of syllables and consonant clusters in frequent words first.
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Contextual invariance guides children's acquisition of tone-intonation interaction in Swedish and Japanese (in word production and recognition).
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Adult second language learners have fuzzy mental representations of words that contain non-native sound contrasts.
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'Autistic' traits affect children and adults in the way they process sounds and words.
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People with dyslexia have intact implicit knowledge of sounds.