We investigate whether child-directed speech (CDS) contains a higher proportion of
canonical pronunciations compared to adult-directed speech (ADS), focusing on Korean …

Learning sound categories is central to language acquisition–but we know little about the
extent of phonetic variability in the learner's input. In this study, we phonetically annotated …

How do caregivers fine-tune their speech when interacting with infants? Do these potential
modulations support infants' language development? In this dissertation, Rosslund and …

This dissertation presents a critical synthesis of the work I have carried out on the lexical
phonology of English over the last twelve years. This work is characterised by an emphasis …

Code-switching (switching between languages) is a common linguistic behavior in bilingual
speech directed to infants and children. In adult-directed speech (ADS), acoustic-phonetic …

It has been demonstrated that boys and girls speak differently on a phonetic level; however,
the question of whether this is directly a result of the input they receive from adults is yet to …