Anne Fernald, Ph.D. Anne Fernald obtained her Ph.D in Psychology from the Unviersity of Oregon. She is currently anassociate Professor in the Department of Psychology in Stanford University. Her main research focuses are the development of speech processing andlanguage comprehension in infancy; parent-infant interaction; cross-culturalresearch on the development of communication. Most cited publication (168 cites): Fernald, A.(1985).4-month-old infants prefer to listen to motherese. Infant Behavior andDevelopment. 8(2): Recent publications: Fernald, A., Perfors, A., Marchman,V.A.(2006). Pickingup speed in understanding: speech processing efficiency Thorpe, K., Fernald, A.(2005). Knowingwhat a novel word is not: Two-year-olds "listen through" ambiguous adjectives in fluent speech. Cognition. 24 Mumme, D.L., Fernald, A.(2003). Theinfant as onlooker: learning from emotional reactions observed in a televisionscenario. Child Development. 74(1): 221-237 Fernald, A., Swingley, D., Pinto, J.P.(2001). Whenhalf a word is enough infants can recognize spoken words using partial phoneticinformation. Child Development. 72(4): 1003-1015 | ||
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