Developmental sociolinguistics is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary framework that builds
upon theoretical and methodological contributions from multiple disciplines (ie …

This article reviews research on when acoustic‐phonetic variability facilitates, inhibits, or
does not impact perceptual development for spoken language, to illuminate mechanisms by …

At birth, infants discriminate most of the sounds of the world's languages, but by age 1,
infants become language-specific listeners. This has generally been taken as evidence that …

The present study investigated infants' knowledge about familiar nouns. Infants (n= 46, 12–
20-month-olds) saw two-image displays of familiar objects, or one familiar and one novel …

How do our expectations about speakers shape speech perception? Adults' speech
perception is influenced by social properties of the speaker (eg, race). When in development …

Previous work indicates mutual exclusivity in word learning in monolingual, but not bilingual
toddlers. We asked whether this difference indicates distinct conceptual biases, or instead …

Although unfamiliar accents can pose word identification challenges for children and adults,
few studies have directly compared perception of multiple nonnative and regional accents or …

Contending with talker variability has been found to lead to processing costs but also
benefits by focusing learners on invariant properties of the signal, indicating that talker …

Contemporary models of adult speech perception acknowledge that the processing of
linguistic and nonlinguistic aspects of the speech signal are interdependent. But when in …

Within a language, there is considerable variation in the pronunciations of words owing to
social factors like age, gender, nationality, and race. In the present study, we investigate …