Samantha Durrant
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Soderstrom M, Rocha-Hidalgo J, Munoz L, Bochynska A, Werker J, Skarabela B, et al.
J Child Lang
. 2024 Oct;
:1-26.
PMID: 39422249
From early on, infants show a preference for infant-directed speech (IDS) over adult-directed speech (ADS), and exposure to IDS has been correlated with language outcome measures such as vocabulary. The...
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Monaghan P, Donnelly S, Alcock K, Bidgood A, Cain K, Durrant S, et al.
Cogn Psychol
. 2023 Oct;
147:101607.
PMID: 37804784
We investigated whether learning an artificial language at 17 months was predictive of children's natural language vocabulary and grammar skills at 54 months. Children at 17 months listened to an...
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Lee C, Jessop A, Bidgood A, Peter M, Pine J, Rowland C, et al.
J Exp Child Psychol
. 2023 May;
233:105693.
PMID: 37207474
There is a wealth of evidence demonstrating that executive function (EF) abilities are positively associated with language development during the preschool years, such that children with good executive functions also...
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Byers-Heinlein K, Sin Mei Tsui A, Bergmann C, Black A, Brown A, Carbajal M, et al.
Adv Methods Pract Psychol Sci
. 2022 Jul;
4(1).
PMID: 35821764
From the earliest months of life, infants prefer listening to and learn better from infant-directed speech (IDS) than adult-directed speech (ADS). Yet, IDS differs within communities, across languages, and across...
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Byers-Heinlein K, Tsui R, Renswoude D, Black A, Barr R, Brown A, et al.
Infancy
. 2020 Dec;
26(1):4-38.
PMID: 33306867
Determining the meanings of words requires language learners to attend to what other people say. However, it behooves a young language learner to simultaneously encode relevant non-verbal cues, for example,...
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Frost R, Jessop A, Durrant S, Peter M, Bidgood A, Pine J, et al.
Cogn Psychol
. 2020 Mar;
120:101291.
PMID: 32197131
To acquire language, infants must learn how to identify words and linguistic structure in speech. Statistical learning has been suggested to assist both of these tasks. However, infants' capacity to...
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Peter M, Durrant S, Jessop A, Bidgood A, Pine J, Rowland C
Cogn Psychol
. 2019 Sep;
115:101238.
PMID: 31539813
It is becoming increasingly clear that the way that children acquire cognitive representations depends critically on how their processing system is developing. In particular, recent studies suggest that individual differences...
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Floccia C, Keren-Portnoy T, dePaolis R, Duffy H, Delle Luche C, Durrant S, et al.
Cognition
. 2015 Dec;
148:1-9.
PMID: 26707426
The word segmentation paradigm originally designed by Jusczyk and Aslin (1995) has been widely used to examine how infants from the age of 7.5 months can extract novel words from...
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Delle Luche C, Durrant S, Poltrock S, Floccia C
Infant Behav Dev
. 2015 Jul;
40:151-72.
PMID: 26176183
The Intermodal Preferential Looking paradigm provides a sensitive measure of a child's online word comprehension. To complement existing recommendations (Fernald, Zangl, Portillo, & Marchman, 2008), the present study evaluates the...
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Durrant S, Delle Luche C, Cattani A, Floccia C
J Child Lang
. 2014 Mar;
42(2):447-65.
PMID: 24655564
Monolingual infants are typically studied as a homogenous group and compared to bilingual infants. This study looks further into two subgroups of monolingual infants, monodialectal and multidialectal, to identify the...