Amanda
Seidl, Ph.D. Associate Professor
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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)
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)
Wang, Y., and Seidl, A. (in
press). The learnability of phonotactic restrictions in onset and coda
positions. Language, Learning, and
Development.
Seidl, A. Cristia, A., and
Onishi, K. (in press). Talker Variation Aids Infants’ Phonotactic Learning. Language, Learning, and Development.
Cristia, A., Seidl, A., Junge, C., Hagoort, P., & Soderstrom,
M. (in press). Predicting individual
variation in language from infant speech perception measures. Child Development.
Johnson, E., Seidl, A., and
Tyler, M. (2013). The Edge Factor in Early Word Segmentation: Utterance-level
Prosody Enables Word Form Extraction by 6-month-olds. PLoS One.
Danielson, K., Seidl, A.,
Onishi, K. and Cristia, A. (2013). The acoustic properties of bilingual infant directed
speech, JASA-EL.
Cristia, A., and Seidl, A.
(2013). The Hyperarticulation hypothesis of infant-directed speech. Journal of Child Language, 1–22.
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 28th 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
Funders
Research
in the Infant Speech Lab is supported by a grant from NSF and from funds from
Purdue University.
Links
The Society for Research on Child Development
The International Society for Infant Studies
William
Labov's Phonological
Atlas of North America
The LINGUIST list and CHILDES database
The Web of Science
Science Daily Magazine--Your link to
the latest research news
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Research Areas
Language acquisition
African linguistics
Phonology-syntax interface
Phonetics-phonology interface
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