Rebecca E Eilers

Datos Biográficos

ID5757829
NOMBRERebecca E Eilers
NOMBRESRebecca E
APELLIDOEilers
FIRMAEILERS R E
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Miami
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS13
TOTAL DE CITAS4
TOTAL COMO AUTOR13
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1974
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN1999
ÍNDICE H1

  • An event-based analysis of the coordination of early infant vocalizations and facial actions

    Marygrace E Yale, Daniel M Messinger et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology1999Citada por: 4Referencias: 2

    This study used an event-based approach to provide empirical evidence regarding the nature of coordination in 3- and 6-month-old infants. Vocalizations and facial actions of 12 normally developing infants interacting with their caregivers were coded. Coded vocalizations and facial actions were considered coordinated when they temporally overlapped. Results indicate that infants coordinated their vocalizations and facial actions more than expected…

  • Development of precursors to speech in infants exposed to two languages

    Open AccessD Kimbrough Oller, Rebecca E Eilers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language1997

    The study of bilingualism has often focused on two contradictory possibilities: that the learning of two languages may produce deficits of performance in each language by comparison with performance of monolingual individuals, or on the contrary, that the learning of two languages may produce linguistic or cognitive advantages with regard to the monolingual learning experience. The work reported here addressed the possibility that the very early …

  • Extreme poverty and the development of precursors to the speech capacity

    Open AccessD Kimbrough Oller, Rebecca E Eilers et al.ARTICLEFirst Language1995

    The study of infant vocal development has suggested that babbling is an important precursor of the speech capacity. In addition, research has shown that the babbling of infants is biologically robust - it develops normally in infants from widely varying environments of language and socio-economic status. Babbling development is so robust that even premature birth does not appear to slow its course in healthy infants

  • Speech-like vocalizations in infancy

    Open AccessD Kimbrough Oller, Rebecca E Eilers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language1994

    This work reports longitudinal evaluation of the speech-like vocal development of infants born at risk due to prematurity or low socio-economic status (SES) and infants not subject to such risk. Twenty infants were preterm (10 of low SES) and 33 were full term (16 of low SES), and all were studied from 0;4 through 1;6. The study provides the indication that at-risk infants are not generally delayed in the ability to produce well-formed speech-lik…

  • A natural logic of speech and speech-like acts with developmental implications

    Open AccessD Kimbrough Oller, Rebecca E EilersARTICLEFirst Language1989

    This paper presents the beginnings of a unified categorization system for speech and speech like acts. Hierarchical relationships among categories are taken into account in the context of a model specifying the components of speech and speech-like acts. A metric whereby hierarchically related speech acts can be judged for relative complexity is provided. Since more complex acts are predicted to occur later in development than less complex ones, t…

  • Linguistic experience and infant speech perception

    Open AccessRebecca E Eilers, D Kimbrough Oller et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language1984

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  • The acquisition of voicing contrasts in Spanish and English learning infants and children

    Open AccessRebecca E Eilers, D Kimbrough Oller et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language1984

    The production of voice-onset time (VOT) was studied in a group of Spanish- and English-learning subjects at 1 and 2 years of age. Voice-onset time of initial stop consonants from canonical utterances was measured oscillographically. At one year no significant difference in VOT production was found between Spanish and English learners at any place of articulation. Mean VOT values for infants fell in the short lag range. By two years, four of the …

  • Cross-linguistic perception in infancy

    Open AccessRebecca E Eilers, William J Gavin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language1982

    The possibility that early linguistic experience affects infant speech perception was investigated in a cross-linguistic study with naturally produced speech stimuli. Using the Visually Reinforced Infant Speech Discrimination paradigm, three contrasts were presented to Spanish-and English-learning infants 6–8 months of age. Both groups of infants showed statistically significant discrimination of two contrasts, English and Czech. Only the Spanish…

  • Similarity of babbling in Spanish- and English-learning babies

    Open AccessD Kimbrough Oller, Rebecca E EilersARTICLEJournal of Child Language1982

    Infants from a variety of linguistic backgrounds have been reported to babble similarly. The present study considers this possibility in detail, offering a concrete characterization of how babbling of Spanish- and English-learning babies is similar. Babbling of a group of Spanish- and another of English-learning infants (12 months of age) was recorded and transcribed by two experimenters, one a primarily Spanish speaker and one a primarily Englis…

  • Speech discrimination in the language-innocent and the language-wise

    Open AccessRebecca E Eilers, Wesley R Wilson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language1979

    Discrimination of synthetically produced stimuli differing along the voice onset time continuum was assessed for infants and adults within the context of the Visually Reinforced Infant Speech Discrimination (VRISD) paradigm. English-learning infants' discrimination abilities were compared with two groups of English-speaking adults (a phonetically naive and a phonetically sophisticated group). Contrary to the predictions of the innateness hypothes…

  • The role of speech discrimination in developmental sound substitutions

    Open AccessRebecca E Eilers, D Kimbrough OllerARTICLEJournal of Child Language1976

    Fourteen two-year-olds (M=2; o) were presented with minimal word pairs in a new and highly efficient experimental perception paradigm. The data provide a preliminary view of the relative difficulty of various minimal phonological contrasts for children. The study specifically focuses on perception of some phonological contrasts which usually are actualized and some which usually are not actualized in two-year-old child productions. The data sugge…

  • Suprasegemental and grammatical control over telegraphic speech in young children

    Open AccessRebecca E EilersARTICLEJournal of Psycholinguistic…1975Referencias: 12

  • The acquisition of word-meaning for dimensional adjectives

    Open AccessRebecca E Eilers, D Kimbrough Oller et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language1974

    Two experiments tested the semantic feature hypothesis with children younger than those previously studied. Two predictions were considered: (1) that order of acquisition of dimensional adjective pairs corresponds with their order of semantic generality; (2) that at an early stage of development, the marked members of dimensional pairs are interpreted as having the meaning of the unmarked members. In general, both experiments supported prediction…