Jan Edwards
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3697589 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jan Edwards |
| PRENOMES | Jan |
| SOBRENOME | Edwards |
| ASSINATURA | EDWARDS J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8872-5978 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants
Children who receive cochlear implants develop spoken language on a protracted timescale. The home environment facilitates speech-language development, yet it is relatively unknown how the environment differs between children with cochlear implants and typical hearing. We matched eighteen preschoolers with implants (31-65 months) to two groups of children with typical hearing: by chronological age and hearing age. Each child completed a long-form…
Multiple Approaches to “Appropriateness”
Despite decades of sociolinguistic research, African American Language (AAL) remains stigmatized throughout the United States education system. There have been proposals to counteract this through curricula and/or ideological interventions targeted at teachers that seek to validate AAL while maintaining Dominant American English (DAE) as an educational target. However, such approaches have been criticized for giving limited attention to combating…
Preschoolers rely on rich speech representations to process variable speech
To learn language, children must map variable input to categories such as phones and words. How do children process variation and distinguish between variable pronunciations (“shoup” for soup) versus new words? The unique sensory experience of children with cochlear implants, who learn speech through their device's degraded signal, lends new insight into this question. In a mispronunciation sensitivity eyetracking task, children with implants (N …
Practice and Experience Predict Coarticulation in Child Speech
Much research in child speech development suggests that young children coarticulate more than adults. There are multiple, not mutually-exclusive, explanations for this pattern. For example, children may coarticulate more because they are limited by immature motor control. Or they may coarticulate more if they initially represent phonological segments in larger, more holistic units such as syllables or feet. We tested the importance of several dif…
Coarticulation facilitates lexical processing for toddlers with autism
A lexical advantage in four-year-old children's word repetition
This study examined a potential lexicality advantage in young children's early speech production: do children produce sound sequences less accurately in nonwords than real words? Children aged 3;3-4;4 completed two tasks: a real word repetition task and a corresponding nonword repetition task. Each of the 23 real words had a paired consonant-vowel sequence in the nonword in word-initial position (e.g., ‘su’ in [ˈsutkes] ‘ suitcase’ and [ˈsudrɑs])…
Cross-Linguistic Perceptual Categorization of the Three Corner Vowels
The present study examined the center and size of naïve adult listeners’ vowel perceptual space (VPS) in relation to listener language (LL) and talker age (TA). Adult listeners of three different first languages, American English, Greek, and Korean, categorized and rated the goodness of different vowels produced by 2-year-olds and 5-year-olds and adult speakers of those languages, and speakers of Cantonese and Japanese. The center (i.e., mean fir…
GPs- You Can Make Time in Your Day - You can regain Control
Introduction: With GP workload increasing, Travis Medical Centre in North Eastern Christchurch decided to change their model of care. _“There was a sense of loss of control and a lack of satisfaction with delivering episodic care - something had to change”._ Dr David PilbrowChange Implemented: In 2011 they joined Canterbury’s Integrated Family Health Service Programme, with compelling results.“We made a series of incremental changes, embedding ea…
Individual differences in categorical perception of speech
Frequency effects in phonological acquisition
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Practical lessons from gender audit of an education sector plan in Lao PDR
In 2013, the Laos Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) commissioned a mid-term review of the Education Sector Development Plan 2011–2015 (ESDP, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Ministry of Education and Sports 2010). Plan International, a United Nations Girls Education Initiative partner, worked with MoES to lead a gender audit for the mid-term review. The gender audit strengthened the mid-term review and contributed to the design of the new …
Voice onset time is necessary but not always sufficient to describe acquisition of voiced stops
Lexicon–phonology relationships and dynamics of early language development – a commentary on Stoel-Gammon's ‘Relationships between lexical and phonological development in young children’
We applaud Stoel-Gammon's (this issue) call for a more comprehensive account of the relationship between lexicon and phonology, and we strongly endorse her suggestions for future research. However, we think that it will not be enough simply to integrate findings and methods from the adult-centered and child-centered literatures. Both of these literatures suggest that we need to rethink standard assumptions about what phonological representations …
Phonotactic Constraints on Infant Word Learning
How do infants use their knowledge of native language sound patterns when learning words? There is ample evidence of infants' precocious acquisition of native language sound structure during the first years of life, but much less evidence concerning how they apply this knowledge to the task of associating sounds with meanings in word learning. To address this question, 18-month-olds were presented with two phonotactically legal object labels (con…
Acquisition of Initial /s/-stop and stop-/s/ Sequences in Greek
Previous work on children’s acquisition of complex sequences points to a tendency for affricates to be acquired before clusters, but there is no clear evidence of a difference in order of acquisition between clusters with /s/ that violate the Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP), such as /s/ followed by stop in onset position, and other clusters that obey the SSP. One problem with studies that have compared the acquisition of SSP-obeying and SSP-v…
Why are Korean tense stops acquired so early
Contrast and covert contrast
Conceptualising hy‐bivalent subjectivities to facilitate an examination of Australian government Mutual Obligations policies
This paper illustrates how the work of feminist theorists Valerie Walkerdine, Helen Lucey and June Melody, Beverly Skeggs, and Nancy Fraser were used together to examine the lived effects of Australian government Mutual Obligations policies. As ‘active’ welfare policies, Mutual Obligations construct particular relations between themselves and policy subjects. Those most affected are poor and working‐class Australian young women and girls. This is…
The Interaction Between Vocabulary Size and Phonotactic Probability Effects on Children's Production Accuracy and Fluency in Nonword Repetition
Adults' performance on a variety of tasks suggests that phonological processing of nonwords is grounded in generalizations about sublexical patterns over all known words. A small body of research suggests that children's phonological acquisition is similarly based on generalizations over the lexicon. To test this account, production accuracy and fluency were examined in nonword repetitions by 104 children and 22 adults. Stimuli were 22 pairs of n…
Students researching their Subjectivities as Constructed by Australian 'Mutual Obligation' Policies
On Discrete Changes in the Acquisition of the Alveolar/Velar Stop Consonant Contrast
Les As. proposent un commentaire sur l'article de Thomas Berg Sound change in child language : a study of inter-word variation paru en 1995 dans Language and Speech. Dans cet article, Berg conclut que l'enfant qu'il etudie acquiert graduellement le contraste alveolaire/velaire en 1 e position et qu'il ne presente pas de contraste cache. Les As. montrent ici qu'une chose apparemment discrete comme la substitution alveolaire/velaire dans les conson…
The Interplay Between Prosodic Structure and Coarticulation
In this paper we draw on a linguistic model of prosodic structure and a task-dynamic model of speech gestures to account for the interplay of coarticulation and stress in English. We reinterpret results from two experiments in which articulator movements were recorded for utterances varying in pitch accent placement. In the first experiment, jaw kinematics were studied in post-nuclear unaccented and nuclear accented [pap] syllables. The kinematic…
Compensatory speech motor abilities in normal and phonologically disordered children
The articulatory kinematics of final lengthening
In order to understand better the phonetic control of final lengthening, the articulation of phrase-final syllables was compared with that of two other contexts known to increase syllable duration: accent and slow tempo. The kinematics of jaw movements in [pap] sequences and of lower lip movements in [pE] sequences for four subjects were interpreted in terms of a task-dynamic model. There was evidence of two different control strategies: decreasi…
Children's Phonetic Disorders
The Interplay Between Prosodic Structure and Coarticulation
In this paper we draw on a linguistic model of prosodic structure and a task-dynamic model of speech gestures to account for the interplay of coarticulation and stress in English. We reinterpret results from two experiments in which articulator movements were recorded for utterances varying in pitch accent placement. In the first experiment, jaw kinematics were studied in post-nuclear unaccented and nuclear accented [pap] syllables. The kinematic…
Why are Korean tense stops acquired so early
Individual differences in categorical perception of speech
Voice onset time is necessary but not always sufficient to describe acquisition of voiced stops
Contrast and covert contrast
Acquisition of Initial /s/-stop and stop-/s/ Sequences in Greek
Previous work on children’s acquisition of complex sequences points to a tendency for affricates to be acquired before clusters, but there is no clear evidence of a difference in order of acquisition between clusters with /s/ that violate the Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP), such as /s/ followed by stop in onset position, and other clusters that obey the SSP. One problem with studies that have compared the acquisition of SSP-obeying and SSP-v…
Conceptualising hy‐bivalent subjectivities to facilitate an examination of Australian government Mutual Obligations policies
This paper illustrates how the work of feminist theorists Valerie Walkerdine, Helen Lucey and June Melody, Beverly Skeggs, and Nancy Fraser were used together to examine the lived effects of Australian government Mutual Obligations policies. As ‘active’ welfare policies, Mutual Obligations construct particular relations between themselves and policy subjects. Those most affected are poor and working‐class Australian young women and girls. This is…
Compensatory speech motor abilities in normal and phonologically disordered children
Hitting our Heads on the Glass Ceiling
This paper begins by describing the present situation at the madrasah level in areas that participate in LAPIS-ELOIS activities and identifies the personal, cultural, and religious factors that contribute to women's under-representation in leadership and decision-making roles. Women's participation in leadership and decision making in Islamic universities involved in LAPIS-PGMI is discussed using data from consortium institutions. The range of fa…
Children's Phonetic Disorders
The articulatory kinematics of final lengthening
In order to understand better the phonetic control of final lengthening, the articulation of phrase-final syllables was compared with that of two other contexts known to increase syllable duration: accent and slow tempo. The kinematics of jaw movements in [pap] sequences and of lower lip movements in [pE] sequences for four subjects were interpreted in terms of a task-dynamic model. There was evidence of two different control strategies: decreasi…
Compensatory speech motor abilities in normal and phonologically disordered children
The Interplay Between Prosodic Structure and Coarticulation
In this paper we draw on a linguistic model of prosodic structure and a task-dynamic model of speech gestures to account for the interplay of coarticulation and stress in English. We reinterpret results from two experiments in which articulator movements were recorded for utterances varying in pitch accent placement. In the first experiment, jaw kinematics were studied in post-nuclear unaccented and nuclear accented [pap] syllables. The kinematic…
On Discrete Changes in the Acquisition of the Alveolar/Velar Stop Consonant Contrast
Les As. proposent un commentaire sur l'article de Thomas Berg Sound change in child language : a study of inter-word variation paru en 1995 dans Language and Speech. Dans cet article, Berg conclut que l'enfant qu'il etudie acquiert graduellement le contraste alveolaire/velaire en 1 e position et qu'il ne presente pas de contraste cache. Les As. montrent ici qu'une chose apparemment discrete comme la substitution alveolaire/velaire dans les conson…
Students researching their Subjectivities as Constructed by Australian 'Mutual Obligation' Policies
The Interaction Between Vocabulary Size and Phonotactic Probability Effects on Children's Production Accuracy and Fluency in Nonword Repetition
Adults' performance on a variety of tasks suggests that phonological processing of nonwords is grounded in generalizations about sublexical patterns over all known words. A small body of research suggests that children's phonological acquisition is similarly based on generalizations over the lexicon. To test this account, production accuracy and fluency were examined in nonword repetitions by 104 children and 22 adults. Stimuli were 22 pairs of n…
Conceptualising hy‐bivalent subjectivities to facilitate an examination of Australian government Mutual Obligations policies
This paper illustrates how the work of feminist theorists Valerie Walkerdine, Helen Lucey and June Melody, Beverly Skeggs, and Nancy Fraser were used together to examine the lived effects of Australian government Mutual Obligations policies. As ‘active’ welfare policies, Mutual Obligations construct particular relations between themselves and policy subjects. Those most affected are poor and working‐class Australian young women and girls. This is…
Contrast and covert contrast
Lexicon–phonology relationships and dynamics of early language development – a commentary on Stoel-Gammon's ‘Relationships between lexical and phonological development in young children’
We applaud Stoel-Gammon's (this issue) call for a more comprehensive account of the relationship between lexicon and phonology, and we strongly endorse her suggestions for future research. However, we think that it will not be enough simply to integrate findings and methods from the adult-centered and child-centered literatures. Both of these literatures suggest that we need to rethink standard assumptions about what phonological representations …
Phonotactic Constraints on Infant Word Learning
How do infants use their knowledge of native language sound patterns when learning words? There is ample evidence of infants' precocious acquisition of native language sound structure during the first years of life, but much less evidence concerning how they apply this knowledge to the task of associating sounds with meanings in word learning. To address this question, 18-month-olds were presented with two phonotactically legal object labels (con…
Acquisition of Initial /s/-stop and stop-/s/ Sequences in Greek
Previous work on children’s acquisition of complex sequences points to a tendency for affricates to be acquired before clusters, but there is no clear evidence of a difference in order of acquisition between clusters with /s/ that violate the Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP), such as /s/ followed by stop in onset position, and other clusters that obey the SSP. One problem with studies that have compared the acquisition of SSP-obeying and SSP-v…
Why are Korean tense stops acquired so early
Voice onset time is necessary but not always sufficient to describe acquisition of voiced stops
Frequency effects in phonological acquisition
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Practical lessons from gender audit of an education sector plan in Lao PDR
In 2013, the Laos Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) commissioned a mid-term review of the Education Sector Development Plan 2011–2015 (ESDP, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Ministry of Education and Sports 2010). Plan International, a United Nations Girls Education Initiative partner, worked with MoES to lead a gender audit for the mid-term review. The gender audit strengthened the mid-term review and contributed to the design of the new …
Individual differences in categorical perception of speech
GPs- You Can Make Time in Your Day - You can regain Control
Introduction: With GP workload increasing, Travis Medical Centre in North Eastern Christchurch decided to change their model of care. _“There was a sense of loss of control and a lack of satisfaction with delivering episodic care - something had to change”._ Dr David PilbrowChange Implemented: In 2011 they joined Canterbury’s Integrated Family Health Service Programme, with compelling results.“We made a series of incremental changes, embedding ea…
Practice and Experience Predict Coarticulation in Child Speech
Much research in child speech development suggests that young children coarticulate more than adults. There are multiple, not mutually-exclusive, explanations for this pattern. For example, children may coarticulate more because they are limited by immature motor control. Or they may coarticulate more if they initially represent phonological segments in larger, more holistic units such as syllables or feet. We tested the importance of several dif…
Coarticulation facilitates lexical processing for toddlers with autism
A lexical advantage in four-year-old children's word repetition
This study examined a potential lexicality advantage in young children's early speech production: do children produce sound sequences less accurately in nonwords than real words? Children aged 3;3-4;4 completed two tasks: a real word repetition task and a corresponding nonword repetition task. Each of the 23 real words had a paired consonant-vowel sequence in the nonword in word-initial position (e.g., ‘su’ in [ˈsutkes] ‘ suitcase’ and [ˈsudrɑs])…
Cross-Linguistic Perceptual Categorization of the Three Corner Vowels
The present study examined the center and size of naïve adult listeners’ vowel perceptual space (VPS) in relation to listener language (LL) and talker age (TA). Adult listeners of three different first languages, American English, Greek, and Korean, categorized and rated the goodness of different vowels produced by 2-year-olds and 5-year-olds and adult speakers of those languages, and speakers of Cantonese and Japanese. The center (i.e., mean fir…
Preschoolers rely on rich speech representations to process variable speech
To learn language, children must map variable input to categories such as phones and words. How do children process variation and distinguish between variable pronunciations (“shoup” for soup) versus new words? The unique sensory experience of children with cochlear implants, who learn speech through their device's degraded signal, lends new insight into this question. In a mispronunciation sensitivity eyetracking task, children with implants (N …
Multiple Approaches to “Appropriateness”
Despite decades of sociolinguistic research, African American Language (AAL) remains stigmatized throughout the United States education system. There have been proposals to counteract this through curricula and/or ideological interventions targeted at teachers that seek to validate AAL while maintaining Dominant American English (DAE) as an educational target. However, such approaches have been criticized for giving limited attention to combating…
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