Carolyn Quam
Biographic Data
| ID | 8525533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn Quam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Quam |
| SIGNATURE | QUAM C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2607-8597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Effects of Language Status, Community Advice, and Parent Beliefs on Heritage Language Maintenance in the United States
Purpose: This qualitative scoping review examines effects of language status, community advice, and parents’ beliefs on heritage-language (HL) maintenance in the United States. Methodology: Twenty-eight articles were included. Data were extracted per Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology. Data and analysis: Themes and subthemes were identified via qualitative content analysis. Findings: HL speakers mostly desired to pass their HL to their chi…
Developmental change in English‐learning children's interpretations of salient pitch contours in word learning
To efficiently recognize words, children learning an intonational language like English should avoid interpreting pitch‐contour variation as signaling lexical contrast, despite the relevance of pitch at other levels of structure. Thus far, the developmental time‐course with which English‐learning children rule out pitch as a contrastive feature has been incompletely characterized. Prior studies have tested diverse lexical contrasts and have not t…
A protracted developmental trajectory for English-learning children’s detection of consonant mispronunciations in newly learned words
Children are adept at learning their language's speech-sound categories, but just how these categories function in their developing lexicon has not been mapped out in detail. Here, we addressed whether, in a language-guided looking procedure, two-year-olds would respond to a mispronunciation of the voicing of the initial consonant of a newly learned word. First, to provide a baseline of mature native-speaker performance, adults were taught a new …
Perceptual flexibility for speech
Infants' discrimination of consonant contrasts in the presence and absence of talker variability
To learn speech‐sound categories, infants must identify the acoustic dimensions that differentiate categories and selectively attend to them as opposed to irrelevant dimensions. Variability on irrelevant acoustic dimensions can aid formation of robust categories in infants through adults in tasks such as word learning (e.g., Rost and McMurray, 2009) or speech‐sound learning (e.g., Lively et al., 1993). At the same time, variability sometimes over…
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Infants' discrimination of consonant contrasts in the presence and absence of talker variability
To learn speech‐sound categories, infants must identify the acoustic dimensions that differentiate categories and selectively attend to them as opposed to irrelevant dimensions. Variability on irrelevant acoustic dimensions can aid formation of robust categories in infants through adults in tasks such as word learning (e.g., Rost and McMurray, 2009) or speech‐sound learning (e.g., Lively et al., 1993). At the same time, variability sometimes over…
Perceptual flexibility for speech
A protracted developmental trajectory for English-learning children’s detection of consonant mispronunciations in newly learned words
Children are adept at learning their language's speech-sound categories, but just how these categories function in their developing lexicon has not been mapped out in detail. Here, we addressed whether, in a language-guided looking procedure, two-year-olds would respond to a mispronunciation of the voicing of the initial consonant of a newly learned word. First, to provide a baseline of mature native-speaker performance, adults were taught a new …
Developmental change in English‐learning children's interpretations of salient pitch contours in word learning
To efficiently recognize words, children learning an intonational language like English should avoid interpreting pitch‐contour variation as signaling lexical contrast, despite the relevance of pitch at other levels of structure. Thus far, the developmental time‐course with which English‐learning children rule out pitch as a contrastive feature has been incompletely characterized. Prior studies have tested diverse lexical contrasts and have not t…
Effects of Language Status, Community Advice, and Parent Beliefs on Heritage Language Maintenance in the United States
Purpose: This qualitative scoping review examines effects of language status, community advice, and parents’ beliefs on heritage-language (HL) maintenance in the United States. Methodology: Twenty-eight articles were included. Data were extracted per Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology. Data and analysis: Themes and subthemes were identified via qualitative content analysis. Findings: HL speakers mostly desired to pass their HL to their chi…
Language Development and Disorders (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Audiology (2 works) · Communication (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Consonant (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works)