Publications

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• Rett, A. & White, K. S. (2022). Children Treat Grammatical Errors Differently for Native and Non-Native Speakers  Frontiers in Psychology.

• White, K. S. & Daub, O. (2021). When it’s not appropriate to adapt: Toddlers’ learning of novel speech patterns is affected by visual information  Brain & Language.

• Weatherhead, D. & White, K. S. (2021). Toddlers Link Social and Speech Variation During Word Learning  Developmental Psychology, 57, 1195-1209.

• Avarino, A., Thorburn, R., & White, K. S. (2021). Broken Telephone: Children's Judgments of Messages Delivered by Non-Native Speakers are Influenced by Processing Fluency  In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & T Tessmar-Raible (Eds.) Proceedings of the 43^rd Annual Meeting of theCognitive Science Society.

• Johnson, E. K. & White, K. S. (2020). Developmental sociolinguistics: Children's acquisition of language variation. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews in Cognitive Science, 11 (1), e1515.

• White, K. S., Nilsen, E. S., Deglint, T., & Silva, J. (2020). That's thee, uhh blicket! How does disfluency affect children's word learning? First Language, 40, 3-20.

• Weatherhead, D., Friedman, O., White, K. S. (2019). Preschoolers are sensitive to accent distance. Journal of Child Language, 46, 1058-1072.

• Bernier, D. & White, K. S. (2019). Toddlers process common and infrequent childhood mispronounciations differently for child and adult speakers. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62, 4137-4149.

• Paquette-Smith, M., Buckler, H., White, K.S., Choi, J. & Johnson, E.K. (2019). The effect of accent exposure on children’s sociolinguistic evaluation of peers. Developmental Psychology, 55, 809-822.

• Bernier, D. & White, K. S. (2019). Toddlers' sensitivity to phonetic detail in child speech. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 185, 128-147.

• Johnson, E.K., & White, K. S. (in press). Six questions in infant speech and language development. In: Human Language: from Genes and Brains to Behavior, ed. P. Hagoort. Boston, MA: MIT Press.

• Weatherhead, D., White, K. S., & Friedman, O. (2018). Children's accent-based inferences depend on geographic background . Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 175, 108-116.

• Weatherhead, D. & White, K. S. (2018). And then I saw her race: Race-based expectations affect infants’ word processing. Cognition, 177, 87-97.

• Weatherhead, D., Friedman, O., & White, K. S. (2018). Accent, Language, and Race: 4-6-Year-Old Children's Inferences Differ by Speaker Cue. Child Development, 89, 1613-1624.

• White, K. S. (2017). The impact of input variability on word learning. Invited chapter in G. Westermann & N. Mani (Eds). Current Issues in Developmental Psychology: Early Word Learning. New York: Psychology Press, pp. 83-95.

• White, K. S., Chambers, K. E., Miller, Z., & Jethava, V. (2017). Listeners learn phonotactic patterns conditioned on suprasegmental cues.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 2560-2576.

• Bernier, D. & White, K. S. (2017). What's a foo? Toddlers are not tolerant of other children's mispronunciations. In M. LaMendola & J. Scott (Eds.) Proceedings of the 41^st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, pp. 88-100.

• Weatherhead, D. & White, K. S. (2017). Read my lips: Visual speech influences word processing in infants (PDF). Cognition, 160, 103-109.

• Weatherhead, D., White, K. S., & Friedman, O. (2016). Where are you from? Preeschoolers infer background from accent. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 143, 171-178.

• Weatherhead, D. & White, K. S. (2016). He says potato, she says potahto: Infants track talker-specific accents. Language Learning and Development, 1-13.

• Orena, A. J. & White, K. S. (2015). I forget what that's called! Children's online processing of disfluencies depends on speaker knowledge. Child Development, 86, 1701-1709.
• White, K. S., Yee, E., Blumstein, S. E. & Morgan, J. L. (2013). Adults show less sensitivity to phonetic detail in unfamiliar words, too (PDF). Journal of Memory and Language, 68, 362-378.
• Feldman, N., Myers, E. B., White, K. S., Griffiths, T. L. & Morgan, J. L. (2013). Word-level information influences phonetic learning in adults and infants (PDF). Cognition, 127, 427-438.
• White, K. S. & Aslin, R. N. (2011). Adaptation to novel accents by toddlers (PDF). Developmental Science, 14, 372-384.
• Shukla, M., White, K. S. & Aslin, R.N. (2011). Prosody guides the rapid mapping of auditory word forms onto visual objects in 6-mo-old infants (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (15), 6038-6043.
• Kidd, C., White, K. S. & Aslin, R. N. (2011). Toddlers use speech disfluencies to predict speakers' referential intentions (PDF). Developmental Science. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01049.x.
• Shukla, M., Wen, J., White, K. S. & Aslin, R. N. (2011). SMART-T: A system for fully automated eye-tracking paradigms (PDF). Behaviour Research Methods, 43, 384-398.

• Kidd, C., White, K. S., & Aslin, R. N. (2011). Learning the Meaning of “Um”: Toddlers’ developing use of speech disfluencies as cues to speakers' referential intentions. In I. Arnon & E.V. Clark (Eds.), Experience, Variation, and Generalization: Learning a First Language (Trends in Language Acquisition Research). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 91–106.

• Kidd, C., White, K.S., & Aslin, R.N. (2009). Children's use of disfluencies for pragmatic inference in lexical development (PDF). Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
• White, K. S. & Morgan, J. L. (2008). Sub-segmental detail in early lexical representations (PDF). Journal of Memory and Language, 59, 114-132.
• White, K. S., Peperkamp, S., Kirk, C. & Morgan, J. L. (2008). Rapid acquisition of phonological alternations by infants (PDF). Cognition, 107, 238-265.
• Singh, L., White, K. S. & Morgan, J. L. (2008). Building a phonological lexicon in the face of variable input: Effects of pitch and amplitude variation on early word recognition (PDF). Language Learning and Development, 4, 157-178.
• Soderstrom, M., White, K. S., Conwell, E. & Morgan, J. L. (2007). Early grammatical knowledge of function and content words (PDF). Infancy, 12, 1-29.
• White, K. S., Morgan, J. L. & Wier, L. (2005). When is a dar a car? Effects of mispronunciation and referential context on sound-meaning mappings (PDF). In A. Brugos, M. Clark-Cotton and S. Ha (Eds). Proceedings of the 29th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Singh, L., Morgan, J. L. & White, K. S. (2004). Preference and processing: The role of speech affect in early spoken word recognition (PDF). Journal of Memory and Language, Vol. 51, 173-189.
• Anderson, J., Morgan, J. L. & White, K. S. (2003). A statistical basis for speech sound discrimination (PDF). Language and Speech, Vol. 46, 155-182.
• Foley, C., Lust, B., Battin, D., Koehne, A. & White, K. (2000). On the acquisition of an indefinite determiner: Evidence for unselective binding. In S. C. Howell, S. Fish and T. Keith-Lucas (Eds). Proceedings of the 24th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.