Amanda Seidl

Amanda Seidl, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences

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Contact Info.

Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Purdue University
B3A Heavilon Hall
West Lafayette, IN 47907

aseidl@purdue.edu
496-3127 (lab)

496-3863 (office)

Current Research interests:

Can we locate precursors to language disorders such as ASDs or SLI in infancy? What is the role of complexity in language learning? How does language learning interact with other cognitive systems? We explore all of these sorts of questions in The infant speech lab at Purdue.

Selected Papers (please feel free to request a copy of any listed below)

Cristia, A., Seidl, A., Junge, C., Hagoort, P., & Soderstrom, M. (submitted). Baby Steps: What Research in Infant Speech Perception Can (and Can’t) Tell Us About Language Acquisition. Child Development.

Seidl, A. and Cristia, A. (2012). Infants' learning of phonological status. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 448.

Cristia, A., Seidl, A., Vaughn, C., Schmale, R., Bradlow, A., & Floccia, C. (2012). Linguistic processing of accented speech across the lifespan. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 479.

Cristià, A., & Seidl, A. (2012). Phonological Categories in Infant-directed Speech. Journal of Child Language.

Schmale, A., Seidl, A. & Cristia, A. (2012). Brief Exposure to a Non-Native Accent Bolsters Word Recognition, Developmental Science, 15, 732-738.

Cristia, A., Skoruppa, K., Pepperkamp, S., & Seidl, A., (2011). English-learning infants’ perception of word stress patterns. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Cristià, A., McGuire, G., Seidl, A., and Francis, A. (2011). Effects of the distribution of cues in infants’ discrimination of speech sounds. Journal of Phonetics.

Schmale, R., Hollich, G., and Seidl, A. (2011). Contending with voice and accent variability in early lexical acquisition. Journal of Child Language.

Cristià, A., Seidl, A., & Onishi, K. (2010). Indices acoustiques de phonémicité etd’allophonie dans la parole adressée aux enfants. Journées d’Étude sur la Parole.

Schmale, R, Cristià, A., Seidl, A., and Johnson, E. (2010). Developmental changes in infants' ability to cope with dialect variation in word recognition. Infancy.

Brentari, D., Gonzales, C., Seidl, A. and Wilbur, R. (2010). Sensitivity to visual prosodic cues in signers and nonsigners. Language & Speech.

Seidl, A., Cristià, A., Bernard, A., and Onishi, K. (2009). Allophones and phonemes in infants' phonotactic learning. Language, Learning, & Development, 5, 191-202.

Schmale, R., and Seidl, A. (2009). Accommodating Variability in Voice and Foreign Accent: Flexibility of Early Word Representations. Developmental Science, 12, 583-601.

Johnson, E., and Seidl, A. (2008). A cross-linguistic perspective on the detection of juncture in speech. Infancy, 13 (5), 440–455.

Johnson, E., and Seidl, A. (2008). At eleven months, prosody still outranks statistics. Developmental Science, 11 (6), 1–11.

Cristià, A., and Seidl, A. (2008). Phonological features in infants’ phonotactic learning: Evidence from artificial grammar learning. Language, Learning, and Development, 4 (3), 203–227.

Seidl, A., and Cristià, A. (2008). Developmental changes in the weighting of prosodic cues. Developmental Science, 11 (4), 596–606.

Examples of stimuli from the paper: Unmodified clause & non-clause, pause clause & non-clause, preboundary lengthened clause & non-clause, flattened clause & non-clause

Seidl, A. and Johnson, E. (2008). Perceptual factors influence infants’ extraction of onsetless words from continuous speech. Journal of Child Language, 34.

Seidl, A. (2007) Infants’ use and weighting of prosodic cues in clause segmentation. Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 24--48.

Seidl, A. and Johnson, E. (2006). Infant word segmentation revisited: Edge alignment facilitates target extraction. Developmental Science, 9, 565-573.

Seidl, A. and Buckley, E. (2005). On the learning of arbitrary phonological rules. Language Learning and Development, 1, 289-316.

Seidl, A., Hollich, G., and Jusczyk, P. (2003). Early comprehension of subject and object wh-questions. Infancy, 4, 3, 423-436.

Soderstrom, M., Seidl, A., Kemler Nelson, D., & Jusczyk, P. (2003). The prosodic bootstrapping of phrases: Evidence from prelinguistic infants. Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 249-267.

Kirk, C. and Seidl, A. (2004). Perception and production of unfooted syllables: Implications for lexical representations. In A. Brugos, L. Micciulla, and C. E. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28^th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (p. 318-327). Somerville: Cascadilla.

Seidl, A., Johnson, E. (2003). Position and vowel quality effects in infants' segmentation of vowel-initial words. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

Blenn, L., Seidl, A. and Hoehle, B. (2003). Recognition of syntactic phrases in early language acquisition: The role of morphological markers. In B. Beachley, A. Brown, and F. Conlin, (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (p. 138-149). Somerville: Cascadilla.

Buchwald, A., Schwartz, O., Seidl, A. and Smolensky, P. (2002). Recoverability Optimality Theory: Discourse Anaphora in a Bidirectional framework. In J. Bos, M. Foster and C. Matheson, Proceedings of EDILOG, the 6th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialog.

Seidl, A. and Dimitriadis, A. (2002). Statives and reciprocal morphology in Swahili. In P. Sauzet and A. Zribi-Hertz (Eds.), Typologie des langues d’Afrique et universaux de la grammaire. Paris: L’Harmattan.

Book

Seidl, A. (2001). Minimal indirect reference: A theory of the syntax-phonology interface. New York: Routledge.

Collaborators and students

Rachel Schmale

Sharon Peperkamp

Melanie Soderstrom

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