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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Janet F. Werker is a researcher in the field of developmental psychology. She researches the foundations of monolingual and bilingual infant language acquisition in infants at the University of British Columbia's Infant Studies Centre. Her research has pioneered what are now accepted baselines in the field, showing that language learning begins in early infancy and is shaped by experience across the first year of life.
Janet F. Werker's Published Works
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- Cross-language speech perception: Evidence for perceptual reorganization during the first year of life (1984) (2615)
- Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination (2002) (1213)
- Infants listen for more phonetic detail in speech perception than in word-learning tasks (1997) (739)
- Developmental changes in perception of nonnative vowel contrasts. (1994) (713)
- PRIMIR: A Developmental Framework of Infant Speech Processing (2005) (539)
- Acquisition of word-object associations by 14-month-old infants. (1998) (508)
- Phonemic and phonetic factors in adult cross-language speech perception. (1984) (507)
- Developmental aspects of cross-language speech perception. (1981) (496)
- Infants' Ability to Learn Phonetically Similar Words: Effects of Age and Vocabulary Size (2002) (433)
- Critical periods in speech perception: new directions. (2015) (425)
- Infant preference for both male and female infant-directed talk: a developmental study of attentional and affective responsiveness. (1989) (417)
- Listening to language at birth: evidence for a bias for speech in neonates. (2007) (411)
- Speech perception as a window for understanding plasticity and commitment in language systems of the brain. (2005) (368)
- Visual Language Discrimination in Infancy (2007) (367)
- Cross-language evidence for three factors in speech perception (1985) (363)
- Near-infrared spectroscopy: A report from the McDonnell infant methodology consortium (2011) (320)
- Newborn infants’ sensitivity to perceptual cues to lexical and grammatical words (1999) (320)
- Influences on infant speech processing: toward a new synthesis. (1999) (311)
- Cross-Language Speech Perception : Initial Capabilities and Developmental Change (2001) (308)
- Two-month-old infants match phonetic information in lips and voice (2003) (301)
- Developmental changes across childhood in the perception of non-native speech sounds. (1983) (298)
- Speech perception in severely disabled and average reading children. (1987) (283)
- The Roots of Bilingualism in Newborns (2010) (280)
- Tuned to the signal: the privileged status of speech for young infants. (2004) (267)
- Unsupervised learning of vowel categories from infant-directed speech (2007) (262)
- Infant speech perception bootstraps word learning (2005) (254)
- Perceptual narrowing during infancy: a comparison of language and faces. (2014) (250)
- Preference for infant-directed over adult-directed speech: Evidence from 7-week-old infants (1992) (234)
- A Bilingual Advantage in Visual Language Discrimination in Infancy (2012) (233)
- Are human milk long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids related to visual and neural development in breast-fed term infants? (2001) (229)
- Cross-language speech perception: Initial capabilities and developmental change. (1988) (229)
- Monolingual, bilingual, trilingual: infants' language experience influences the development of a word-learning heuristic. (2009) (224)
- Detection of Sounds in the Auditory Stream: Event-Related fMRI Evidence for Differential Activation to Speech and Nonspeech (2001) (221)
- Perceptual flexibility: maintenance or recovery of the ability to discriminate non-native speech sounds. (1984) (220)
- The development of phonetic representation in bilingual and monolingual infants (2007) (217)
- Early Word Learners' Ability to Access Phonetic Detail in Well-Known Words (2003) (214)
- Learning words’ sounds before learning how words sound: 9-Month-olds use distinct objects as cues to categorize speech information (2009) (211)
- The interaction between acoustic salience and language experience in developmental speech perception: evidence from nasal place discrimination. (2010) (200)
- Using speech sounds to guide word learning: the case of bilingual infants. (2007) (190)
- When does native language input affect phonetic perception? The precocious case of lexical tone (2013) (177)
- Infant-directed speech supports phonetic category learning in English and Japanese (2007) (177)
- Fourteen-month-old infants learn similar-sounding words. (2009) (175)
- Prenatal exposure to antidepressants and depressed maternal mood alter trajectory of infant speech perception (2012) (174)
- The tuning of human neonates' preference for speech. (2010) (174)
- The Infant's Auditory World: Hearing, Speech, and the Beginnings of Language (2007) (173)
- A cross-language investigation of infant preference for infant-directed communication☆ (1994) (170)
- Bilingualism in infancy: first steps in perception and comprehension (2008) (170)
- Recognition and Representation of Function Words in English-Learning Infants (2006) (169)
- The Perceptual Acquisition of Phonological Contrasts (2004) (168)
- Language Experience and the Organization of Brain Activity to Phonetically Similar Words: ERP Evidence from 14- and 20-Month-Olds (2004) (168)
- Matching phonetic information in lips and voice is robust in 4.5-month-old infants (1999) (167)
- Native language governs interpretation of salient speech sound differences at 18 months (2007) (159)
- Critical period regulation across multiple timescales (2020) (158)
- Sensorimotor influences on speech perception in infancy (2015) (153)
- Adult and infant perception of two English phones. (1997) (151)
- Valproate reopens critical-period learning of absolute pitch (2013) (147)
- Binding at Birth: The Newborn Brain Detects Identity Relations and Sequential Position in Speech (2012) (146)
- Bilingual beginnings as a lens for theory development: PRIMIR in focus (2011) (145)
- Six-Month-Old Infants' Preference for Lexical Words (2001) (145)
- Becoming A Native Listener (1989) (139)
- How Do Infants Become Experts at Native-Speech Perception? (2012) (138)
- Prosody cues word order in 7-month-old bilingual infants (2013) (128)
- Frequency and form as determinants of functor sensitivity in English-acquiring infants. (2006) (128)
- Lip Movements Affect Infants’ Audiovisual Speech Perception (2013) (126)
- An exploration of why preschoolers perform differently than do adults in audiovisual speech perception tasks. (1997) (126)
- Earlier Speech Exposure Does Not Accelerate Speech Acquisition (2012) (124)
- Language and the Newborn Brain: Does Prenatal Language Experience Shape the Neonate Neural Response to Speech? (2011) (122)
- The development of perceptual grouping biases in infancy: A Japanese-English cross-linguistic study (2010) (120)
- Infants' ability to match dynamic phonetic and gender information in the face and voice. (2002) (118)
- Distributional Phonetic Learning at 10 Months of Age. (2010) (116)
- Is the integration of heard and seen speech mandatory for infants? (2004) (116)
- The organization and reorganization of human speech perception. (1992) (114)
- Perceptual foundations of bilingual acquisition in infancy (2012) (109)
- Perceptual narrowing of linguistic sign occurs in the 1st year of life. (2012) (99)
- Cognitive Influences on Cross-Language Speech Perception in Infancy (1995) (98)
- Three facial expressions mothers direct to their infants (2003) (94)
- Infants' learning of novel words in a stochastic environment. (2009) (94)
- Lexicon structure and the disambiguation of novel words: Evidence from bilingual infants (2013) (81)
- Bilingual beginnings to learning words (2009) (76)
- The development of associative word learning in monolingual and bilingual infants* (2012) (74)
- Discriminating languages by speech-reading (2007) (73)
- Developmental changes in speech perception: new challenges and new directions (1993) (73)
- The Conditioned head turn procedure as a method for testing infant speech perception (1997) (72)
- Cross-language speech perception: Developmental change does not involve loss (1994) (69)
- Prenatal antidepressant exposure associated with CYP2E1 DNA methylation change in neonates (2015) (68)
- Perceptual beginnings to language acquisition (2018) (67)
- The organization and reorganization of audiovisual speech perception in the first year of life. (2017) (66)
- Toward understanding commonalities in the development of object search, detour navigation, categorization, and speech perception. (1994) (64)
- The specificity of the neural response to speech at birth. (2018) (63)
- Perception of vowel length by Japanese- and English-learning infants. (2009) (60)
- Listening to Sounds versus Listening to Words: Early Steps in Word Learning. (2004) (58)
- Second label learning in bilingual and monolingual infants. (2017) (58)
- How Infant Speech Perception Contributes to Language Acquisition (2008) (55)
- La langue et les Lèvres: cross-language influences on bimodal speech perception. (1992) (54)
- Listening to Speech in the 1st Year of Life: Experiential Influences on Phoneme Perception (1995) (54)
- Chapter 4 Exploring Developmental Changes in Cross-Language Speech Perception (53)
- Learning non-adjacent regularities at age 0 ; 7. (2013) (49)
- Inner speech captures the perception of external speech. (2013) (48)
- Abnormal processing of speech during oddball target detection in schizophrenia (2003) (47)
- Early word-object associations and later language development (2007) (46)
- Referential labeling can facilitate phonetic learning in infancy. (2014) (46)
- The basis of preference for lexical words in 6-month-old infants (2003) (44)
- Auditory-visual integration of temporal relations in infants. (1979) (42)
- The effect of multilingualism on phonetic perceptual flexibility (1986) (42)
- Does the ACC Have Potential as an Index of Early Speech Discrimination Ability? A Preliminary Study in 4-Month-Old Infants With Normal Hearing (2012) (42)
- Analyzing the resting state functional connectivity in the human language system using near infrared spectroscopy (2014) (41)
- Auditory Perception of Self-Similarity in Water Sounds (2011) (40)
- The perceptual foundations of phonological development (2007) (39)
- Toward understanding the problem in severely disabled readers Part 1: Vowel errors (1989) (38)
- Can a Click be a Word?: Infants' Learning of Non-Native Words (2014) (38)
- Do you hear what I hear? Neural correlates of thought disorder during listening to speech in schizophrenia (2006) (38)
- Development of Phonetic Categories in Infants Raised in Bilingual and Monolingual Environments (2003) (37)
- Preverbal Infants Discover Statistical Word Patterns at Similar Rates as Adults: Evidence From Neural Entrainment (2020) (36)
- The development of audiovisual speech perception (2012) (31)
- Toward understanding the problem in severely disabled readers Part II: Consonant errors (1989) (26)
- Innate phonetic boundaries revisited (L) (2002) (26)
- Why voice melody alone cannot explain neonates' preference for speech (2007) (24)
- Baby steps to learning language. (2003) (23)
- Who's Got Rhythm? (2000) (22)
- The Ontogeny and Developmental Significance of Language-Specific Phonetic Perception (1993) (22)
- Function words in early speech perception (2003) (22)
- Alterations in Resting-State Networks Following In Utero Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Exposure in the Neonatal Brain. (2019) (20)
- The Role of Auditory and Visual Speech in Word Learning at 18 Months and in Adulthood. (2017) (20)
- Age-related sensitive periods influence visual language discrimination in adults (2013) (20)
- Category-Specific Processing of Scale-Invariant Sounds in Infancy (2014) (18)
- Now you hear it, now you don't: vowel devoicing in Japanese infant-directed speech. (2010) (18)
- Cross-language sensitivity to phonotactic patterns in infants. (2006) (17)
- Here's looking at you, baby: What gaze and movement reveal about minimal pair word-object association at 14 months (2012) (16)
- Sensorimotor influences on speech perception in pre-babbling infants: Replication and extension of Bruderer et al. (2015) (2019) (16)
- Hub distribution of the brain functional networks of newborns prenatally exposed to maternal depression and SSRI antidepressants (2019) (15)
- The neural correlates of processing scale-invariant environmental sounds at birth (2016) (15)
- A multi-lab study of bilingual infants: Exploring the preference for infant-directed speech (2020) (15)
- Articulatory influences on the categorization of speech sounds (2005) (15)
- Speech and language processing in infancy: A neurocognitive approach (2001) (15)
- Cascading and Multisensory Influences on Speech Perception Development (2018) (15)
- Age-related changes in sensitivity to native phonotactics in Japanese infants. (2007) (14)
- Culture as a binder for bilingual acquisition (2014) (14)
- Multisensory Interactions in Speech Perception (2011) (13)
- Japanese Listeners' Perceptions of Phonotactic Violations (2005) (13)
- Neural indicators of articulator-specific sensorimotor influences on infant speech perception (2021) (13)
- A Multilab Study of Bilingual Infants: Exploring the Preference for Infant-Directed Speech (2021) (12)
- Speech Perception in Infancy (2013) (12)
- Distributional Learning and Attention in Phonological Development (2006) (12)
- Minimal pair word learning and vocabulary size: Links with later language skills (2017) (11)
- Developmental changes in cross-language speech perception: Implications for cognitive models of speech processing. (1993) (11)
- Infant Discrimination of a Morphologically Relevant Word-Final Contrast. (2009) (11)
- Additive effects of phonetic distinctions in word learning (1998) (11)
- Innate phonetic boundaries revisited. (2002) (11)
- 4-month-old female infants influenced by visible speech (1996) (11)
- Infants track word forms in early word-object associations. (2014) (10)
- Distributional learning in vowel length distinctions by 6-month-old English infants (2006) (10)
- Distributional learning of speech sound categories is gated by sensitive periods (2021) (9)
- Finding Phrases: The Interplay of Word Frequency, Phrasal Prosody and Co-speech Visual Information in Chunking Speech by Monolingual and Bilingual Adults (2019) (9)
- Distributional Learning in Vowel Distinctions by 8-month-old English Infants (2006) (9)
- Bilingual beginnings as a lens for theory development. (2009) (8)
- The contribution of the relation between vocal production and perception to a developing phonological system (1993) (8)
- Does early motor development contribute to speech perception? (2017) (8)
- Finding phrases: On the role of co-verbal facial information in learning word order in infancy (2019) (8)
- PRIMIR on Tone (2018) (8)
- Editorial: The systematic effects of bilingualism on children's development. (2017) (7)
- Reduced perceptual narrowing in synesthesia (2020) (7)
- Putting Mutual Exclusivity in Context: Speaker Race Influences Monolingual and Bilingual Infants' Word-Learning Assumptions. (2021) (6)
- Putting the Baby in the Bootstraps: Toward a More Complete Understanding of the Role of the Input in Infant Speech Processing (2014) (6)
- Who can speak that language? Eleven-month-old infants have language-dependent expectations regarding speaker ethnicity. (2019) (6)
- The Systematic Effects of Bilingualism on Children’s Development (2017) (6)
- The Role of Audiovisual Speech in Fast-Mapping and Novel Word Retention in Monolingual and Bilingual 24-Month-Olds (2021) (6)
- Developmental speech perception (1978) (6)
- Understanding individual variation in levels of second language attainment through the lens of critical period mechanisms (2018) (5)
- Speech perception, word learning, and language acquisition in infancy: The voyage continues (2018) (5)
- Infants' Mapping of New Faces to New Voices. (2021) (4)
- Phonetic discrimination and perceptual reorganization in human infants (1986) (4)
- Chapter 1. Bilingual Speech Processing in Infants and Adults (2006) (3)
- Language. Who's got rhythm? (2000) (3)
- Phonological acquisition and change . John L. Locke, New York: Academic Press, 1983. Pp. 263. (1984) (3)
- REORGANIZATION OF HUMAN SPEECH PERCEPTION (1992) (3)
- The phonetic rhythm/syntax headedness connection: Evidence from Tagalog (2005) (3)
- Phonetic category cues in adult-directed speech: Evidence from three languages with distinct vowel characteristics (2012) (3)
- Coverbal speech gestures signal phrase boundaries: A production study of Japanese and English infant- and adult-directed speech (2020) (3)
- Developmental changes in cross‐language vowel perception (1993) (3)
- Bilingualism alters infants' cortical organization for attentional orienting mechanisms. (2021) (3)
- Neural Foundations of Cognition and Language (2018) (3)
- The development of cross language speech perception : the influence of age, experience, and context on perceptual organization (1981) (3)
- ManyBabies 1 CDI Follow-up (2018) (2)
- CRITICAL PERIODS AND EARLY EXPERIENCE (2018) (2)
- Learning to Recognize Unfamiliar Voices: An Online Study With 12- and 24-Month-Olds (2022) (2)
- INFANTS' USE OF TEMPORAL AND PHONETIC INFORMATION IN THE ENCODING OF AUDIOVISUAL SPEECH. (2016) (2)
- From speech perception to word learning and beyond (2002) (2)
- Updates on becoming a native listener (1998) (2)
- The use of visual information in non-native speech sound discrimination across the first year of life (2015) (2)
- Matching phonetic information in lips and voice by 4-month-old infants (1998) (2)
- Phonetic representation of frequent function words in 8-month-old infants (2004) (2)
- Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines (2020) (2)
- Consonant Errors of Severely Disabled Readers. (1985) (2)
- Developmental Differences in the Accuracy of Reporting the Causal Determinants of Behaviour (1990) (2)
- Young infants' perception of lexical and functional categories (1998) (2)
- The development of cross‐language speech perception (1986) (2)
- Attentional orienting abilities in bilinguals: Evidence from a large infant sample. (2022) (1)
- Vowel devoicing in Japanese infant‐ and adult‐directed speech (2006) (1)
- Speech perception and the sensorimotor system in Infancy (2021) (1)
- The acquisition of word-object associations in 14-month-olds: Does phonetic similarity make a difference? (1996) (1)
- Reduced Perceptual Narrowing in Synaesthesia: Discrimination of Native and Non-native Stimuli. (2014) (1)
- Phonetic details in perception and production allow various patterns in phonological change (2002) (1)
- Accessing coarticulatory information (2002) (1)
- Perception in Infancy : A Foundation for Language Acquisition 1 (2012) (1)
- Phonological development in first languages (2017) (1)
- A Conversation with Michael Rutter (2021) (0)
- Review of Language learning and concept acquisition: Foundational issues. (1988) (0)
- Children's use of morphology in spelling: The representation of base words in derived/inflected forms (2004) (0)
- Visual and sensori-motor influences on speech perception in infancy (2013) (0)
- Early word-object associations and language skills in children at-risk for language delay (2005) (0)
- Discovering speech, words, and mind (review) (2012) (0)
- Neonates attend to perceptual cues to rudimentary grammatical categories (1997) (0)
- Infant Speech Perception (2020) (0)
- 20-month-olds selectively generalize newly learned word meanings based on cues to linguistic community membership. (2022) (0)
- Articulatory gestures influence the perception of speech. (2008) (0)
- Audio-Aerotactile Integration in Infant Speech Perception (2016) (0)
- FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 22 MAY 2009 SKY BRIDGE TERRACE, 5:00 TO 6:15 P.M. Session 5pSWc Speech Workshop: Keynote Address (2009) (0)
- Sensorimotor influences on speech perception in pre-babbling infants: Replication and extension of Bruderer et al. (2015) (2019) (0)
- Adult perceptions of phonotactic violations in Japanese (2004) (0)
- The neonate neural response to native, non-native and whistled language (2016) (0)
- What infants know: The new cognitive science of early development. Jacques Mehler and Emmanuel Dupoux. Blackwell, Cambridge, Mass, 1994 (translated from the French by patsy Southgate). No. of Pages: 212. ISBN 1557863709 $17.95 Paperback (1995) (0)
- The neonate brain's sensitivity to repetition-based structure: Specific to speech? (2023) (0)
- The "Switch" Design in Word-Learning Research: a Meta-Analysis (2006) (0)
- Bilingual Visual Language Discrimination 995 growing up in bilingual homes show as much preference for the two languages in their environment ( Bosch & (2012) (0)
- 24 Multisensory Interactions in Speech Perception (2011) (0)
- The effects of hearing experience on early voice and word recognition (2020) (0)
- U-shaped Development of Infants' Ability to Perceive Word-final Consonant Sequences (2006) (0)
- Insights into Early Word Comprehension: Tracking the Neural Representations of Word Semantics in Infants (2021) (0)
- Perceiving speech: A developmental perspective (2000) (0)
- Changes in Sensitivity to Nonnative Contrasts (0)
- A Cross-Language lnvesti for Infant-Directe 3 ation of Infant Preference Communication (1994) (0)
- Phonetic perception and word learning: Evidence for continuous and discontinuous changes (1998) (0)
- Perceptual development of phonotactic features in Japanese infants (2005) (0)
- Visual cues to phrase segmentation and the acquisition of word order (2015) (0)
- Infants use disambiguation to learn new voices (2020) (0)
- Acoustic correlates to word order in Infant- and adult directed speech: A cross-linguistic study (2016) (0)
- Temporal lobe dysfunction in patients with schizophrenia during performance of a speech and non-speech analogue detection task: An event-related fMRI study (2002) (0)
- Experience-independent effects of matching and non-matching visual information on speech perception (2014) (0)
- Object-based phonetic categorization of speech: a mechanism of functional reorganization (2006) (0)
- Mothers show special facial expressions when interacting with their infants (1996) (0)
- EDRS PRICE MFO 1 / PCO 1 Plus (2007) (0)
- FUNCTIONS, FORMS A N D FEPS: HOW INFANTS USE L A N G U G E TO L E A R N A B O U T ARTIFACTS by (2009) (0)
- Thanks to our guest reviewers (1987) (0)
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