Publications

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Publication brochure from J. Benjamins for Bilingualism, Language Development and Processing across the Lifespan Publications, Books Bilingualism, First Language Acquisition, Grammar, Indo-European Languages, Language Development, Morphology, Phonology, Second Language Acquisition, Sentence Processing, Syntax
Cheng, Q., & Mayberry, R. I. (2021). When event knowledge overrides word order in sentence comprehension: Learning a first language after childhood. Developmental science, 24(5), e13073. Publications, Journal Articles First Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics
Ferjan Ramírez, N., Kuhl, P.K. (2020) Early Second Language Through SparkLingTM:  Scaling-Up a Language Intervention in Infant Education Centers. Mind, Brain, and Education. Publications, Journal Articles First Language Acquisition
Ferjan Ramírez, N., Lytle, S., Fish, M., Kuhl, P.K. (2018). Parent coaching at 6 and 10 months improves language outcomes at 14 months: A randomized controlled trial. Developmental Science, e12762. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12762 Publications, Journal Articles First Language Acquisition
Ferjan Ramírez, N., Kuhl, P.K. (2017). Bilingual Baby: Foreign Language Intervention in Madrid’s Infant Education Centers. Mind, Brain, and Education, 11(3), 133-43. Publications, Journal Articles First Language Acquisition
Ferjan Ramírez, N., Ramírez, R.R., Clarke, M., Taulu, S., Kuhl, P.K. (2016). Speech discrimination in 11-month-old bilingual and monolingual infants: A magnetoencephalography study. Developmental Science, e12427. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12427 Publications, Journal Articles Bilingualism, First Language Acquisition
Ferjan Ramírez, N., Leonard, M.K., Davenport, T., Torres, C., Mayberry, R.I., Halgren, E. (2014). Neural language processing in adolescent first-language learners: Longitudinal case studies in American Sign Language.  Cerebral Cortex. Available online: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25410427 Publications, Journal Articles American Sign Language, First Language Acquisition
McGarrity, Laura W. 2014. The role of onsets in primary and secondary stress patterns. In Ashley Farris-Trimble & Jessica Barlow (eds.), Perspectives on Phonological Theory and Development: In Honor of Daniel A. Dinnsen. [LALD 56] Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Publications First Language Acquisition, Prosody
Ferjan Ramírez, N., Leonard, M.K., Torres, C., Hatrak, M., Halgren, E., Mayberry, R.I.. (2013) Neural language processing in adolescent first-language learners. Cerebral Cortex doi: 10.1093/cercor/bht137. Publications, Journal Articles First Language Acquisition
Ferjan Ramírez, N., Lieberman, A., Mayberry, R.I. (2013). The initial stages of first-language acquisition begun in adolescence: When late looks early. Journal of Child Language, 40(2), 391-414. Publications, Journal Articles First Language Acquisition
Ferjan Ramírez, N., Marjanovič Umek, L., & Fekonja, U. (2024). Language environment and early language production in Slovenian infants: An exploratory study using daylong recordings. Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, 10.1111/infa.12615. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12615 Publications First Language Acquisition
Hippe, L., Hennessy, V., Ferjan Ramírez, N., Zhao, T.C. (2024) Comparison of speech and music input in North American infants’ home environment over the first two years of life. Developmental Science, Advance online publication: https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13528 Publications First Language Acquisition
Sheth, K., Ferjan Ramírez, N. (2024) A Longitudinal Corpus Analysis of the Quantity, Syntactic, and Lexical Aspects of Maternal and Paternal Parentese. Language Learning and Development, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2024.2346099 Publications First Language Acquisition
Ferjan Ramírez, N. (2023). What do parents really think? Knowledge, beliefs, and self-awareness of parentese in relation to its use in daylong recordings. First Language, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237231216010 Publications First Language Acquisition
Ferjan Ramírez, N., Hippe, D., +Braverman, A., Weiss, Y., Kuhl., P.K. (2023) A comparison of automatic and manual measures of turn-taking in monolingual and bilingual contexts. Behavior research methods, 10.3758/s13428-023-02127-z. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02127-z.   Publications Bilingualism, First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition
Huber, E., Ferjan Ramírez, N., Corrigan, N., & Kuhl, P.K. (2023) Enriched parent-child interaction advances early childhood language development. Developmental science, e13391. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13391.   Publications First Language Acquisition
Ferjan Ramírez, N., Weiss, Y., +Sheth, K., Kuhl., P.K. (2023) Parentese in infancy predicts 5-year language complexity and conversational turns. Journal of child language, 1–26. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000923000077. Publications First Language Acquisition
Ferjan Ramírez, N., Hippe, D., & Lindekugel, K. (2022) Electronic media and social features of language input in bilingually-raised Latinx infants. Infant Behavior & Development, 68, 101740. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101740 Publications Bilingualism, First Language Acquisition
Ferjan Ramírez, N. (2022). Fathers' infant-directed speech and its effects on child language development. Language & Linguistics Compass, e12448. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12448 Publications First Language Acquisition
Shapiro, N.T., Hippe, D., & Ferjan Ramírez, N. (2021). How chatty are daddies? An exploratory study of infants’ language environments. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research 64(8), 3242–3252. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00727. Publications First Language Acquisition
Ferjan Ramírez, N., Hippe, D., & Shapiro, N.T. (2021). Exposure to Electronic Media Between 6 and 24 Months of Age: An Exploratory Study.  Infant behavior & development, 63, 101549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101549. Publications First Language Acquisition
Ferjan Ramírez, N., Lytle, S., Kuhl, P.K. (2020). Parent Coaching Increases Conversational Turns and Advances Infant Language Development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(7), 3484–3491. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921653117. Publications First Language Acquisition
Ferjan Ramírez, N., & Kuhl, P.K. (2020) Early Second Language Through SparkLingTM:  Scaling-Up a Language Intervention in Infant Education Centers. Mind, Brain, and Education. Publications, Journal Articles First Language Acquisition
Ferjan Ramírez, N., Lytle, S., Kuhl, P.K. (in press). Parent Coaching Increases Conversational Turns and Advances Infant Language Development Publications, Journal Articles First Language Acquisition