Rana Abu‐zhaya
Biographic Data
| ID | 1464421 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rana Abu‐zhaya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rana |
| FAMILY NAME | Abu‐zhaya |
| SIGNATURE | ZHAYA R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9532-7935 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring differences between mothers’ and fathers’ language attitudes in multilingual London
This study investigated the language attitudes of parents raising multilingual infants in London. Using a newly developed questionnaire, 131 mothers and fathers rated their attitudes towards their languages across three themes: (1) their emotional resonance with the language, (2) the significance of the language in their personal life, and (3) its importance in bringing up a multilingual child. Parents varied in the combination of languages they …
Does Early Unit Size Impact the Formation of Linguistic Predictions? Grammatical Gender as a Case Study
Making adults learn from larger linguistic units can facilitate learning article-noun agreement. Here we ask whether initial exposure to larger units improves learning by increasing the predictive associations between the article and noun. Using an artificial language learning paradigm, we taught 106 Hebrew-speaking participants novel article-noun associations with either segmented input first or unsegmented input first, and tested their learning…
Mothers' use of touch across infants' development and its implications for word learning
Caregivers' touches that occur alongside words and utterances could aid in the detection of word/utterance boundaries and the mapping of word forms to word meanings. We examined changes in caregivers' use of touches with their speech directed to infants using a multimodal cross‐sectional corpus of 35 Korean mother‐child dyads across three age groups of infants (8, 14, and 27 months). We tested the hypothesis that caregivers' frequency and use of …
Multimodal infant-directed communication
Both touch and speech independently have been shown to play an important role in infant development. However, little is known about how they may be combined in the input to the child. We examined the use of touch and speech together by having mothers read their 5-month-olds books about body parts and animals. Results suggest that speech+touch multimodal events are characterized by more exaggerated touch and speech cues. Further, our results sugge…
Exploring differences between mothers’ and fathers’ language attitudes in multilingual London
This study investigated the language attitudes of parents raising multilingual infants in London. Using a newly developed questionnaire, 131 mothers and fathers rated their attitudes towards their languages across three themes: (1) their emotional resonance with the language, (2) the significance of the language in their personal life, and (3) its importance in bringing up a multilingual child. Parents varied in the combination of languages they …
Multimodal infant-directed communication
Both touch and speech independently have been shown to play an important role in infant development. However, little is known about how they may be combined in the input to the child. We examined the use of touch and speech together by having mothers read their 5-month-olds books about body parts and animals. Results suggest that speech+touch multimodal events are characterized by more exaggerated touch and speech cues. Further, our results sugge…
Mothers' use of touch across infants' development and its implications for word learning
Caregivers' touches that occur alongside words and utterances could aid in the detection of word/utterance boundaries and the mapping of word forms to word meanings. We examined changes in caregivers' use of touches with their speech directed to infants using a multimodal cross‐sectional corpus of 35 Korean mother‐child dyads across three age groups of infants (8, 14, and 27 months). We tested the hypothesis that caregivers' frequency and use of …
Does Early Unit Size Impact the Formation of Linguistic Predictions? Grammatical Gender as a Case Study
Making adults learn from larger linguistic units can facilitate learning article-noun agreement. Here we ask whether initial exposure to larger units improves learning by increasing the predictive associations between the article and noun. Using an artificial language learning paradigm, we taught 106 Hebrew-speaking participants novel article-noun associations with either segmented input first or unsegmented input first, and tested their learning…
Exploring differences between mothers’ and fathers’ language attitudes in multilingual London
This study investigated the language attitudes of parents raising multilingual infants in London. Using a newly developed questionnaire, 131 mothers and fathers rated their attitudes towards their languages across three themes: (1) their emotional resonance with the language, (2) the significance of the language in their personal life, and (3) its importance in bringing up a multilingual child. Parents varied in the combination of languages they …
Linguistics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (2 works) · Language development (2 works) · Language Development and Disorders (2 works) · Vocabulary (2 works) · Word learning (2 works)