Rachael Frush Holt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5760844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachael Frush Holt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachael Frush |
| FAMILY NAME | Holt |
| SIGNATURE | HOLT R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6329-0995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Effortful control and expressive language in deaf or hard-of-hearing children
Caregiver-child interactions reflect an important dynamic that supports spoken language development in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children. This study examined how child effortful control interacts with caregiver language and parenting stress to affect child expressive language. Fifty-nine DHH children (mean age = 5;9) and their primary caregiver participated in a play interaction where expressive language was measured. Caregivers completed q…
Time after time
We investigated older children’s (7–12 years) ability to comprehend before and after sentences. Results found that three factors that influence pre-school aged children’s learning of these words continues to influence older children’s comprehension. Specifically, children’s accuracy is improved when the events can be naturally (vs. arbitrarily) ordered; when the clauses in the sentence iconically match (vs. mismatch) the order of the events in th…
“They sure aren’t from around here”
Children exhibit preferences for familiar accents early in life. However, they frequently have more difficulty distinguishing between first language (L1) accents than second language (L2) accents in categorization tasks. Few studies have addressed children’s perception of accent strength, or the relation between accent strength and objective measures of pronunciation distance. To address these gaps, 6- and 12-year-olds and adults ranked talkers’ …
Perception of regional and nonnative accents
Online testing for behavioral research has become an increasingly used tool. Although more researchers have been using online data collection methods, few studies have assessed the replicability of findings for speech intelligibility tasks. Here we assess intelligibility in quiet and two noise-added conditions for several different accents of English (Midland American, Standard Southern British, Scottish, German-accented, Mandarin-accented, Japan…
Broadening understanding of executive function in children with different hearing histories
Naturalistic Use of Aspect Morphology in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children
Grammatical morphology often links small acoustic forms to abstract semantic domains. Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children have reduced access to the acoustic signal and frequently have delayed acquisition of grammatical morphology (e.g., Tomblin, Harrison, Ambrose, Walker, Oleson & Moeller, 2015). This study investigated the naturalistic use of aspectual morphology in DHH children to determine if they organize this semantic domain as normal h…
Rhythm and syntax processing in school-age children
Scholars debate whether musical and linguistic abilities are associated or independent. In the present study, we examined whether musical rhythm skills predict receptive grammar proficiency in childhood. In Experiment 1, 7- to 17-year-old children ( N = 68) were tested on their grammar and rhythm abilities. In the grammar-comprehension task, children heard short sentences with subject-relative (e.g., "Boys that help girls are nice") or object-rel…
Shhh… I Need Quiet! Children’s Understanding of American, British, and Japanese-accented English Speakers
Children's ability to understand speakers with a wide range of dialects and accents is essential for efficient language development and communication in a global society. Here, the impact of regional dialect and foreign-accent variability on children's speech understanding was evaluated in both quiet and noisy conditions. Five- to seven-year-old children ( n = 90) and adults ( n = 96) repeated sentences produced by three speakers with different a…
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Shhh… I Need Quiet! Children’s Understanding of American, British, and Japanese-accented English Speakers
Children's ability to understand speakers with a wide range of dialects and accents is essential for efficient language development and communication in a global society. Here, the impact of regional dialect and foreign-accent variability on children's speech understanding was evaluated in both quiet and noisy conditions. Five- to seven-year-old children ( n = 90) and adults ( n = 96) repeated sentences produced by three speakers with different a…
Rhythm and syntax processing in school-age children
Scholars debate whether musical and linguistic abilities are associated or independent. In the present study, we examined whether musical rhythm skills predict receptive grammar proficiency in childhood. In Experiment 1, 7- to 17-year-old children ( N = 68) were tested on their grammar and rhythm abilities. In the grammar-comprehension task, children heard short sentences with subject-relative (e.g., "Boys that help girls are nice") or object-rel…
Naturalistic Use of Aspect Morphology in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children
Grammatical morphology often links small acoustic forms to abstract semantic domains. Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children have reduced access to the acoustic signal and frequently have delayed acquisition of grammatical morphology (e.g., Tomblin, Harrison, Ambrose, Walker, Oleson & Moeller, 2015). This study investigated the naturalistic use of aspectual morphology in DHH children to determine if they organize this semantic domain as normal h…
Perception of regional and nonnative accents
Online testing for behavioral research has become an increasingly used tool. Although more researchers have been using online data collection methods, few studies have assessed the replicability of findings for speech intelligibility tasks. Here we assess intelligibility in quiet and two noise-added conditions for several different accents of English (Midland American, Standard Southern British, Scottish, German-accented, Mandarin-accented, Japan…
Broadening understanding of executive function in children with different hearing histories
Time after time
We investigated older children’s (7–12 years) ability to comprehend before and after sentences. Results found that three factors that influence pre-school aged children’s learning of these words continues to influence older children’s comprehension. Specifically, children’s accuracy is improved when the events can be naturally (vs. arbitrarily) ordered; when the clauses in the sentence iconically match (vs. mismatch) the order of the events in th…
“They sure aren’t from around here”
Children exhibit preferences for familiar accents early in life. However, they frequently have more difficulty distinguishing between first language (L1) accents than second language (L2) accents in categorization tasks. Few studies have addressed children’s perception of accent strength, or the relation between accent strength and objective measures of pronunciation distance. To address these gaps, 6- and 12-year-olds and adults ranked talkers’ …
Effortful control and expressive language in deaf or hard-of-hearing children
Caregiver-child interactions reflect an important dynamic that supports spoken language development in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children. This study examined how child effortful control interacts with caregiver language and parenting stress to affect child expressive language. Fifty-nine DHH children (mean age = 5;9) and their primary caregiver participated in a play interaction where expressive language was measured. Caregivers completed q…
Psychology (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Language Development and Disorders (3 works) · Perception (3 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (2 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (2 works) · Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (2 works)