Look out for the BLAB at BUCLD 2019! Dr. Federica Bulgarelli will be giving a talk, Erin Campbell and Charlotte Moore will be presenting posters, and Dr. Elika Bergelson will be presenting at a symposium. 11 BLAB members will be attending!
Look out for the BLAB at BUCLD 2018! 9 BLAB members will be in attendance, Dr. Federica Bulgarelli and Shannon Dailey will be giving talks, and Dr. Elika Bergelson will be presenting a poster.
Grad student Genia Lukin and lab manager, Lilli Righter presented research at the 49th annual Boston University Conference for Language Development. Former BLab member Erin Campbell also presented!
In October, BLAB graduate student Erin Campbell will present at the Many Paths to Language Conference, organized by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
We present an exploratory cross-linguistic analysis of the quantity of target-child-directed speech and adult-directed speech in North American English (US & Canadian), United Kingdom English, Argentinian Spanish, Tseltal (Tenejapa, Mayan), and Yélî...
Do biases in infant and adult language learning follow (or better yet, follow from) typological biases observed cross-linguistically? The evidence obtained thus far has been equivocal; the present study examines a previously uninvestigated type of bias...
Our findings provide magnetoencephalographic evidence that the mismatch-negativity response to two-note chords (dyads) is modulated by a combination of abstract cognitive differences and lower-level differences in the auditory signal. Participants were...
Recent issues around reproducibility, best practices, and cultural bias impact naturalistic observational approaches as much as experimental approaches, but there has been less focus on this area. Here, we present a new approach that leverages cross...
A handful of recent experimental reports have shown that infants of 6–9 months know the meanings of some common words. Here, we replicate and extend these findings. With a new set of items, we show that when young infants (age 6–16 months, n = 49) are...
Research on computational speech processing has traditionally relied on the availability of a relatively large and complex infrastructure, which encompasses data (text and audio), tools (feature extraction, model training, scoring, possibly online and...
The present article provides a narrative review on how language communicates sensory information and how knowledge of sight and sound develops in individuals born deaf or blind. Studying knowledge of the perceptually inaccessible sensory domain for these...
