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How sociolinguistic factors shape children’s subjective impressions of teacher quality (2022)
Journal Article
Paquette-Smith, M., Buckler, H., & Johnson, E. K. (2023). How sociolinguistic factors shape children’s subjective impressions of teacher quality. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(3), 485-496. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221094312

When university students are asked to rate their instructors, their evaluations are often influenced by the demographic characteristics of the instructor—such as the instructor’s race, gender, or language background. These influences can manifest in... Read More about How sociolinguistic factors shape children’s subjective impressions of teacher quality.

Navigating Accent Variation: A Developmental Perspective (2021)
Journal Article
Johnson, E. K., van Heugten, M., & Buckler, H. (2022). Navigating Accent Variation: A Developmental Perspective. Annual Review of Linguistics, 8(1), 365-387. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-032521-053717

Adult processing of other-accented speech is fast, dependent on lexical access, and readily generalizable to new words. But what does children's processing of other-accented speech look like? Although many acquisition researchers have emphasized how... Read More about Navigating Accent Variation: A Developmental Perspective.

A Global Perspective on Testing Infants Online: Introducing ManyBabies-AtHome (2021)
Journal Article
Zaadnoordijk, L., Buckler, H., Cusack, R., Tsuji, S., & Bergmann, C. (2021). A Global Perspective on Testing Infants Online: Introducing ManyBabies-AtHome. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 703234. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.703234

Online testing holds great promise for infant scientists. It could increase participant diversity, improve reproducibility and collaborative possibilities, and reduce costs for researchers and participants. However, despite the rise of platforms and... Read More about A Global Perspective on Testing Infants Online: Introducing ManyBabies-AtHome.

The effect of accent exposure on children’s sociolinguistic evaluation of peers (2019)
Journal Article
Paquette-Smith, M., Buckler, H., White, K., Choi, J., & Johnson, E. K. (2019). The effect of accent exposure on children’s sociolinguistic evaluation of peers. Developmental Psychology, 55(4), 809-822. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000659

Language and accent strongly influence the formation of social groups. By five years of age, children already show strong social preferences for peers who speak their native language with a familiar accent (Kinzler, Shutts, DeJesus, & Spelke, 2009).... Read More about The effect of accent exposure on children’s sociolinguistic evaluation of peers.

What infant-directed speech tells us about the development of compensation for assimilation (2017)
Journal Article
Buckler, H., Goy, H., & Johnson, E. K. (2018). What infant-directed speech tells us about the development of compensation for assimilation. Journal of Phonetics, 66, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2017.09.004

In speech addressed to adults, words are seldom realized in their canonical, or citation, form. For example, the word ‘green’ in the phrase ‘green beans’ can often be realized as ‘greem’ due to English place assimilation, where word-final coronals ta... Read More about What infant-directed speech tells us about the development of compensation for assimilation.

Input matters: speed of word recognition in 2-year-olds exposed to multiple accents (2017)
Journal Article
Buckler, H., Oczak-Arsik, S., Siddiqui, N., & Johnson, E. K. (in press). Input matters: speed of word recognition in 2-year-olds exposed to multiple accents. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 164, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.06.017

Although studies investigating language abilities in young children exposed to more than one language have become common, there is still surprisingly little research examining language development in children exposed to more than one accent. Here, we... Read More about Input matters: speed of word recognition in 2-year-olds exposed to multiple accents.

Using distributional statistics to acquire morphophonological alternations: evidence from production and perception (2016)
Journal Article
Buckler, H., & Fikkert, P. (2016). Using distributional statistics to acquire morphophonological alternations: evidence from production and perception. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 540. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00540

Morphophonological alternations, such as the voicing alternation that arises in a morphological paradigm due to final-devoicing in Dutch, are notoriously difficult for children to acquire. This has previously been attributed to their unpredictability... Read More about Using distributional statistics to acquire morphophonological alternations: evidence from production and perception.

Dutch and German 3-year-olds’ representations of voicing alternations (2015)
Journal Article
Buckler, H., & Fikkert, P. (in press). Dutch and German 3-year-olds’ representations of voicing alternations. Language and Speech, 59(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830915587038

The voicing contrast is neutralised syllable and word finally in Dutch and German, leading to alternations within the morphological paradigm (e.g. Dutch ‘bed(s)’, be[t] be[d]en, German ‘dog(s)’, Hun[t]-Hun[d]e). Despite structural similarity, languag... Read More about Dutch and German 3-year-olds’ representations of voicing alternations.