D Kimbrough Oller

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ID1038875
NOMBRED Kimbrough Oller
NOMBRESD Kimbrough
APELLIDOOller
FIRMAOLLER D K
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Miami
ORCID0000-0001-5527-5982
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS31
TOTAL DE CITAS40
TOTAL COMO AUTOR30
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1973
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H2

  • Parentese Elicits Infant Speech‐Like Vocalizations in Typically Developing and Autistic Infants

    Open AccessPumpki Lei Su, Gordon Ramsay et al.ARTICLEInfancy2025

    Caregivers across many cultures modify their speech when interacting with infants or young children. This type of speech, commonly known as “parentese”, is characterized by greater pitch variations, longer duration, and louder volume compared to speech directed to adults. Parentese has been found to facilitate language learning. It has been proposed that parentese may benefit early language development because its exaggerated prosody encourages i…

  • Bilingual and monolingual children’s articulation rates during nonword repetition tasks

    Open AccessTodd A Gibson, Linda Jarmulowicz et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    Aims and objectives: We know little about how the rate of speaking develops in bilingual children. The purpose of the current investigation was to explore the second language (L2) articulation rate in Spanish-English bilingual kindergarten children, and to compare the rates with those of monolingual English-speaking peers. Method/design: We performed a group-level, longitudinal study comparing articulation rates in two language groups (monolingua…

  • Language Experience in the Second Year of Life and Language Outcomes in Late Childhood

    Jill Gilkerson, Jeffrey A Richards et al.ARTICLEPEDIATRICS2018

    OBJECTIVES: Quantity of talk and interaction in the home during early childhood is correlated with socioeconomic status (SES) and can be used to predict early language and cognitive outcomes. We tested the effectiveness of automated early language environment estimates for children 2 to 36 months old to predict cognitive and language skills 10 years later and examined effects for specific developmental age periods. METHODS: Daylong audio recordin…

  • Mapping the Early Language Environment Using All-Day Recordings and Automated Analysis

    Jill Gilkerson, Jeffrey A Richards et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Speech-Language…2017

    PURPOSE: This research provided a first-generation standardization of automated language environment estimates, validated these estimates against standard language assessments, and extended on previous research reporting language behavior differences across socioeconomic groups. METHOD: Typically developing children between 2 to 48 months of age completed monthly, daylong recordings in their natural language environments over a span of approximat…

  • Multiple Coordination Patterns in Infant and Adult Vocalizations

    Open AccessDrew H Abney, Anne S Warlaumont et al.ARTICLEInfancy2017

    The study of vocal coordination between infants and adults has led to important insights into the development of social, cognitive, emotional, and linguistic abilities. We used an automatic system to identify vocalizations produced by infants and adults over the course of the day for fifteen infants studied longitudinally during the first 2 years of life. We measured three different types of vocal coordination: coincidence‐based, rate‐based, and …

  • A Social Feedback Loop for Speech Development and Its Reduction in Autism

    Open AccessAnne S Warlaumont, Jeffrey A Richards et al.ARTICLEPsychological Science2014

    We analyzed the microstructure of child-adult interaction during naturalistic, daylong, automatically labeled audio recordings (13,836 hr total) of children (8- to 48-month-olds) with and without autism. We found that an adult was more likely to respond when the child’s vocalization was speech related rather than not speech related. In turn, a child’s vocalization was more likely to be speech related if the child’s previous speech-related vocaliz…

  • Vocal motoric foundations of spoken language – a commentary on Iverson's ‘Developing language in a developing body

    Open AccessD Kimbrough OllerARTICLEJournal of Child Language2010

    Vocal motoric foundations of spoken language – a commentary on Iverson's ‘Developing language in a developing body: the relationship between motor development and language development’* - Volume 37 Issue 2

  • Profile effects in early bilingual language and literacy

    Open AccessD Kimbrough Oller, Barbara Zurer Pearson et al.ARTICLEApplied Psycholinguistics2007

    Bilingual children's language and literacy is stronger in some domains than others. Reanalysis of data from a broad-scale study of monolingual English and bilingual Spanish–English learners in Miami provided a clear demonstration of “profile effects,” where bilingual children perform at varying levels compared to monolinguals across different test types. The profile effects were strong and consistent across conditions of socioeconomic status, lan…

  • Evolution of communication systems

    D Kimbrough Oller, Ulrike GriebelBOOKEvolution of Communication Systems2004

    Laying foundations for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of evolution in communication systems with tools from evolutionary biology, linguistics, animal behavior, developmental psychology, philosophy, cognitive sciences, robotics, and neural network modeling. The search for origins of communication in a wide variety of species including humans is rapidly becoming a thoroughly interdisciplinary enterprise. In this volume, scientists engag…

  • Final Syllable Lengthening (FSL) in infant vocalizations

    Open AccessSuneeti Nathani, D Kimbrough Oller et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2003

    Final Syllable Lengthening (FSL) has been extensively examined in infant vocalizations in order to determine whether its basis is biological or learned. Findings suggest there may be a U -shaped developmental trajectory for FSL. The present study sought to verify this pattern and to determine whether vocal maturity and deafness influence FSL. Eight normally hearing infants, aged 0;3 to 1;0, and eight deaf infants, aged 0;8 to 4;0, were examined a…

  • 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…

  • The relation of input factors to lexical learning by bilingual infants

    Open AccessBarbara Zurer Pearson, Sylvia C Fernández et al.ARTICLEApplied Psycholinguistics1997

    The bilingual child is seen as a unique source of information about the relation between input and intake. The strength of the association between language exposure estimates and vocabulary learning was examined for 25 simultaneous bilingual infants (ages 8 to 30 months) with differing patterns of exposure to the languages being learned. Using the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories, standardized parent report forms in English and Spa…

  • 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 …

  • Cross-language synonyms in the lexicons of bilingual infants

    Open AccessBarbara Zurer Pearson, Sylvia Fernández et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language1995

    This study tests the widely-cited claim from Volterra & Taeschner (1978), which is reinforced by Clark's Principle Of Contrast (1987), that young simultaneous bilingual children reject cross-language synonyms in their earliest lexicons. The rejection of translation equivalents is taken by Volterra & Taeschner as support for the idea that the bilingual child possesses a single-language system which includes elements from both languages. We examine…

  • 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

  • Infants' vocalization patterns across home and laboratory environments

    Open AccessVanessa L Lewedag, D Kimbrough Oller et al.ARTICLEFirst Language1994

    Differences in infants' vocalization patterns across home and laboratory recordings were examined. Audiorecordings of the infants were made in both environments during the month immediately following the observed onset of speech-like (canonical) syllables. Analyses indicated that: (a) infants produced more vocalizations per minute in the home than in the laboratory, (b) the vocalizations in the home included higher proportions of speech-like syll…

  • 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…

  • Infants' vocalization patterns across home and laboratory environments

    Open AccessVanessa L Lewedag, D Kimbrough Oller et al.ARTICLEFirst Language1994

    Differences in infants' vocalization patterns across home and laboratory recordings were examined. Audiorecordings of the infants were made in both environments during the month immediately following the observed onset of speech-like (canonical) syllables. Analyses indicated that: (a) infants produced more vocalizations per minute in the home than in the laboratory, (b) the vocalizations in the home included higher proportions of speech-like syll…

  • Lexical Development in Bilingual Infants and Toddlers

    Open AccessBarbara Zurer Pearson, Sylvia C Fernández et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning1993Citada por: 34Referencias: 14

    This study compares lexical development in a sample of 25 simultaneous bilingual and 35 monolingual children for whom semilongitudinal data were collected between the ages of 8 and 30 months. A standardized parent report form, the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory (1989), was used to assess the children's receptive and productive vocabulary in English and/or Spanish. A methodology was devised to assess the degree of overlap between th…

  • Measuring Bilingual Children's Receptive Vocabularies

    Vivian M Umbel, Barbara Zurer Pearson et al.ARTICLEChild Development1992

  • 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…