Rusty Foushee

Biographic Data

ID190649
NAMERusty Foushee
GIVEN NAMESRusty
FAMILY NAMEFoushee
SIGNATUREFOUSHEE R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham
ORCID0000-0002-8361-1725
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Finding our Role

    Open AccessSavithry Namboodiripad, Ethan Kutlu et al.ARTICLECognition2026

  • Little evidence for a noun bias in Tseltal spontaneous speech

    Open AccessMarisa Casillas, Rusty Foushee et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2024

    This study examines whether children acquiring Tseltal (Mayan) demonstrate a noun bias – an overrepresentation of nouns in their early vocabularies. Nouns, specifically concrete and animate nouns, are argued to universally predominate in children’s early vocabularies because their referents are naturally available as bounded concepts to which linguistic labels can be mapped. This early advantage for noun learning has been documented using multipl…

  • Combining observational and experimental approaches to the development of language and communication in rural samples

    Open AccessAlejandrina Cristia, Rusty Foushee et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2023

    Multiple approaches - including observational and experimental - are necessary to articulate powerful theories of learning. Our field's key questions, which rely on these varied methods, are still open. How do children perceive and produce language? What do they encounter in their linguistic input? What does the learner bring to the task of acquisition? Considerable progress has been made for the development of spoken English (especially by North…

  • How adults understand what young children say

    Open AccessRussell A Barkley, Stephan C Meylan et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2023References: 63

    Children's early speech often bears little resemblance to that of adults, and yet parents and other caregivers are able to interpret that speech and react accordingly. Here we investigate how adult listeners' inferences reflect sophisticated beliefs about what children are trying to communicate, as well as how children are likely to pronounce words. Using a Bayesian framework for modelling spoken word recognition, we find that computational model…

  • What ‘diversity’ means depends on your perspective

    Open AccessRusty Foushee, Marisa CasillasARTICLEFirst Language2022

    Having recognized the need for diversity spotlighted by Kidd and Garcia – but given that sampling all the world’s languages is infeasible – we focus on which dimensions of variability researchers should prioritize. We consider three major approaches to the study of child language learning, namely, language as a (1) cognitive puzzle, (2) clinical/educational object, and (3) window onto socialization. We discuss how what is important about ‘diversi…

  • Combining observational and experimental approaches to the development of language and communication in rural samples

    Alejandrina Cristia, Rusty Foushee et al.PREPRINT2022

    Multiple approaches—including observational and experimental—are necessary to articulate powerful theories of learning. Our field’s key questions, which rely on these varied methods, are still open: How do children perceive and produce language? What do they encounter in their linguistic input? What does the learner bring to the task of acquisition? Considerable progress has been made for the development of spoken English (especially by North Ame…

  • Self-directed learning by preschoolers in a naturalistic overhearing context

    Open AccessRusty Foushee, Mahesh Srinivasan et al.ARTICLECognition2021

  • Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess Perceived Social Influence on Health Behaviors

    Open AccessCheryl L Holt, E M Clark et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2010Cited by: 1References: 29

    Assessment of social influence on health behavior is often approached through a situational context. The current study adapted an existing, theory-based instrument from another content domain to assess Perceived Social Influence on Health Behavior (PSI-HB) among African Americans, using an individual difference approach. The adapted instrument was found to have high internal reliability (α = .81-.84) and acceptable testretest reliability ( r = .6…

  • Development and Validation of Instruments to Assess Potential Religion-Health Mechanisms in an African American Population

    Open AccessCheryl L Holt, E M Clark et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Psychology2009Cited by: 6References: 47

    The health disparities that negatively affect African Americans are well-documented; however, there are also many sociocultural factors that may play a protective role in health outcomes. Religious involvement is noted to be important in the African American community and to have a positive association with health outcomes. However, few studies have explained why this relationship exists. This article reports on the development and validation of …