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Our Goal: To understand the first steps in infancy that launch the process of language acquisition.
Updates
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October 13, 2009, 8:55 amNewsletters
Not only have we published the Fall edition of our newsletter, "Baby Talk" - we've also created a new "Newsletters" page! Click here to check out the new page - you can download the latest issue of "Baby Talk," a recent newsletter on our "Early Detection of Language Delay" project, and "Baby Talk" newsletters from past years!
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July 8, 2009, 1:17 amWelcome
Welcome to the new and revamped Infant Studies Centre website! Thanks to Brock Ferguson, a visiting student from the University of Ottawa, for designing and creating this website! Please take a look around and let us know what you think!
New Publications
- Yeung, H. H., & Werker, J. F. (2009). Learning words' sounds before learning how words sound: 9-Month-olds use distinct objects as cues to categorize speech information. Cognition, 113(2), 234-243.
- Byers-Heinlein, K., & Werker, J. F. (2009). Monolingual, bilingual, trilingual: Infants' language experience influences the development of a word learning heuristic. Developmental Science, 14(4), 488-499.
- Yoshida, K. A., Fennell, C. T., Swingley, D., & Werker, J. F. (2009). Fourteen month-old infants learn similar sounding words. Developmental Science, 12(3), 412-418.