Rachel Schmale

Datos Biográficos

ID8525356
NOMBRERachel Schmale
NOMBRESRachel
APELLIDOSchmale
FIRMASCHMALE R
AFILIACIONESNorth Park University
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS2
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR2
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2010
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2011
ÍNDICE H0

  • Contending with foreign accent in early word learning

    Open AccessRachel Schmale, George Hollich et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2011

    By their second birthday, children are beginning to map meaning to form with relative ease. One challenge for these developing abilities is separating information relevant to word identity (i.e. phonemic information) from irrelevant information (e.g. voice and foreign accent). Nevertheless, little is known about toddlers' abilities to ignore irrelevant phonetic detail when faced with the demanding task of word learning. In an experiment with Engl…

  • Developmental Changes in Infants’ Ability to Cope with Dialect Variation in Word Recognition

    Open AccessRachel Schmale, Alejandrina Cristia et al.ARTICLEInfancy2010

    Toward the end of their first year of life, infants’ overly specified word representations are thought to give way to more abstract ones, which helps them to better cope with variation not relevant to word identity (e.g., voice and affect). This developmental change may help infants process the ambient language more efficiently, thus enabling rapid gains in vocabulary growth. One particular kind of variability that infants must accommodate is tha…