Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Supervisor "White, Katherine"
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Environmental Influences on the Development of Child-Directed Speech Modifications in Young Children
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-30)Background. Siblings play a big role in our early lives. Having an older sibling has been shown to contribute to later-born children’s socio-emotional understanding and prosocial skill development (Barr & Hayne, 2003; ... -
Linguistic Features of Lectures and their Relationship with Student Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)Lectures are an important part of the post-secondary experience. Optimizing various aspects of this experience for the benefit of students’ learning has been examined (Mayer, 2019). However, the linguistic features of ... -
Listening to their peers: An assessment of toddlers' processing of other children's speech
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-29)Young language learners acquire their first language(s) from the speech they are exposed to in their environment. For at least some children (e.g., those in daycare), this environmental speech includes a large quantity of ... -
The role of social information in infants’ and toddlers’ linguistic representations
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-31)In seven experiments I demonstrate that social group information plays a role in infants’ and toddlers’ speech processing. In Chapter 2, I provide evidence that 16-month-old infants index social information to their ...