Rebecca Holt

Biographic Data

ID4597458
NAMERebecca Holt
GIVEN NAMESRebecca
FAMILY NAMEHolt
SIGNATUREHOLT R
AFFILIATIONSMacquarie University
ORCID0000-0001-6661-8565
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Real-time spoken word recognition in deaf and hard of hearing preschoolers

    Open AccessRosanne Abrahamse, Nan Xu Rattanasone et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2026

    This study investigates how phonological competition affects real-time spoken word recognition in deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) preschoolers compared to peers with hearing in the normal range (NH). Three-to-six-year olds (27 with NH, 18 DHH, including uni- and bilateral hearing losses) were instructed to look at pictures that corresponded to words alongside a phonological competitor (e.g., / b in- p in /) vs. an unrelated distractor (e.g., / t o…

  • Rapid integration of speaker accent during morphosyntactic processing

    Open AccessRebecca Holt, C Kung et al.ARTICLEBrain and Language2026References: 31

    Listeners take multiple sources of information into account when processing spoken language. This includes the speaker's accent, which affects the on-line processing of many aspects of language, including morphosyntax. This study investigated listeners' neural responses to subject-verb agreement errors in native vs. Mandarin-accented English. The error types differed in typicality: Errors of omission, but not errors of commission, are frequently …

  • Comprehension and production of English plural morphology by school-age deaf and hard-of-hearing children

    Open AccessRebecca Holt, Benjamin Davies et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2025

    Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) preschoolers have difficulty comprehending and producing English plural morphology. This study investigated their comprehension and production of the plural at primary-school age using novel words, to better understand their mental representation of plural morphology. Thirty 5- to 9-year-old DHH children and 31 children with normal hearing (NH) completed a two-alternative forced-choice comprehension task and a wug p…

  • The acquisition of plain–emphatic consonant contrasts by Arabic-speaking children

    Open AccessAnwar Alkhudidi, Rebecca Holt et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2025

    Arabic emphatic consonants are claimed to be late-acquired, likely due to their motoric complexity, involving both coronal and pharyngeal/uvular constrictions. Children’s production has largely been studied using impressionistic data, with limited acoustic analysis. This study acoustically examines the acquisition of emphatic consonants in Saudi-Hijazi Arabic-speaking children aged 3–6 years. Thirty-eight children performed a real-word repetition…

  • An interdisciplinary approach to enhance children’s listening, learning, and wellbeing in the classroom

    Open AccessKiri Mealings, Kelly Miles et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2023

    Introduction Listening is the gateway to children learning in the mainstream classroom. However, modern classrooms are noisy and dynamic environments making listening challenging. It is therefore critical for researchers from speech and hearing, education, and health sciences to co-design and collaborate to realistically assess how children listen to learn in the classroom and to understand how listening can be improved to enhance children’s lear…

  • Jellybeans … or Jelly, Beans…? 5-6-year-olds can identify the prosody of compounds but not lists

    Open AccessNan Xu Rattanasone, Ivan Yuen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2022

    Learning to use word versus phrase level prosody to identify compounds from lists is thought to be a protracted process, only acquired by 11 years (Vogel & Raimy, 2002). However, a recent study has shown that 5-year-olds can use prosodic cues other than stress for these two structures in production , at least for early-acquired noun-noun compounds (Yuen et al., 2021). This raises the question of whether children this age can also use naturally-pr…

  • Children with hearing loss can predict during sentence processing

    Open AccessRebecca Holt, Laurence Bruggeman et al.ARTICLECognition2021

  • Five-year-olds produce prosodic cues to distinguish compounds from lists in Australian English

    Open AccessIvan Yuen, Nan Xu Rattanasone et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2021

    Although previous research has indicated that five-year-olds can use acoustic cues to disambiguate compounds (N 1 + N 2 ) from lists (N 1 , N 2 ) (e.g., ‘ ice - cream ’ vs. ‘ ice, cream ’) (Yoshida & Katz, 2004, 2006), their productions are not yet fully adult-like (Wells, Peppé & Goulandris, 2004). The goal of this study was to examine this issue in Australian English-speaking children, with a focus on their use of F 0 , word duration, and pause…