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Description:: Preterm children are at risk for language delays and deficits. By 2 years, very preterm/low birthweight children tend to have smaller vocabularies and use less …
Year:: 2014
Contributor:: Molina Onario, Glenda (creator); Morgan, James (Director); Blumstein, Sheila (Reader); Amso, Dima (Reader); Brown University. Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences: Cognitive Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Longitudinal Study; Preterm Birth; Receptive Language Skills; Language Outcomes; Structural equation modeling
Language:: English
Collection:: Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences; Cognitive Sciences; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: The visual world holds valuable communicative information for the language learning infant. Emerging evidence suggests that the way an infant distributes his or her attention …
Year:: 2011
Contributor:: Tenenbaum, Elena Jean (creator); Morgan, James (Director); Sobel, David (Reader); Amso, Dima (Reader); Brown University. Psychology (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: face scanning; gaze following; language; Infants; Eye tracking
Language:: English
Collection:: Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences; Psychology; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Infants learn to segment words from fluent speech during the same period as they learn native language phonetic categories, yet accounts of phonetic category acquisition …
Year:: 2011
Contributor:: Feldman, Naomi H (creator); Morgan, James (Director); Griffiths, Thomas (Reader); Blumstein, Sheila (Reader); Brown University. Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences: Cognitive Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: language acquisition; phonetic category learning; Bayesian inference
Language:: English
Collection:: Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences; Cognitive Sciences; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Newborn infants are sensitive to their native language prosody. When children begin to speak, they are able to approximate adult-like intonation patterns and align these …
Year:: 2015
Contributor:: Thorson, Jill C (creator); Morgan, James (Director); Kertz, Laura (Reader); Prieto, Pilar (Reader); Brown University. Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences: Cognitive Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: first language acquisition; prosody; information structure; infant perception; early word learning; speech production; phonetics and phonology; acoustic phonetics; Versification; Conceptual structures (Information theory); Perception in infants; Phonetics, Acoustic
Language:: English
Collection:: Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences; Cognitive Sciences; Theses and Dissertations

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