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List of works by Linda Polka

A cross-language comparison of /d/-/th/ perception: evidence for a new developmental pattern.

scientific article published in May 2001

A cross-language comparison of vowel perception in English-learning and German-learning infants.

scientific article published in July 1996

A universal bias in adult vowel perception - By ear or by eye.

scientific article

Accounting for the accented perception of vowels: Universal preferences and language‐specific biases

scientific article

Asymmetries in Vowel Perception: Effects of Formant Convergence and Category “Goodness”

conference paper

Asymmetries in the mismatch negativity response to vowels by French, English, and bilingual adults: Evidence for a language‐universal bias

scientific article

Asymmetries in unimodal visual vowel perception: The roles of oral-facial kinematics, orientation, and configuration

scientific article published on 8 March 2018

Asymmetries in vowel perception: Effects of formant convergence and category “goodness”

scientific article

Automatic auditory discrimination of vowels in simultaneous bilingual and monolingual speakers as measured by the mismatch negativity (MMN)

scientific article

Bilinguals mind their language (mode): Vowel perception patterns of simultaneous bilingual and monolingual speakers

scientific article

Characterizing the influence of native language experience on adult speech perception

scientific article published in July 1992

Commentary: Revisiting vocal perception in non-human animals: a review of vowel discrimination, speaker voice recognition, and speaker normalization

scientific article

Comparing Different Measures of Bilingual Input Derived From Naturalistic Daylong Recordings

scientific article published in 2023

Cross‐linguistic evidence for the influence of native language prosody in infant speech segmentation

scientific article

Development of coronal stop perception: Bilingual infants keep pace with their monolingual peers

scientific article

Developmental and cross-linguistic variation in the infant vowel space: the case of Canadian English and Canadian French

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

Differences in the development of speech segmentation abilities in two French dialects

scientific article

Directional asymmetries reveal a universal bias in adult vowel perception

scientific article published in April 2017

Discrimination of coronal stops by bilingual adults: the timing and nature of language interaction

scientific article published on 26 March 2007

Distinguishing healthy from otosclerotic ears: effect of probe-tone frequency on static immittance

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

Early word segmentation in infants acquiring Parisian French: task-dependent and dialect-specific aspects

scientific article published on 10 May 2013

Effects of formant proximity and stimulus prototypicality on the neural discrimination of vowels: Evidence from the auditory frequency-following response

scientific article published on 23 May 2019

Emergence of the corner vowels in the babble produced by infants exposed to Canadian English or Canadian French

scientific article

Energy reflectance and tympanometry in normal and otosclerotic ears

scientific article

Fast phonetic learning in very young infants: what it shows, and what it doesn't show

scientific article

Gradient effects of reading ability on native and non-native talker identification

conference paper

Identifying bilingual talkers after a language switch: Language experience matters

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Language background influences the emergence of voice onset time production and perception

scientific article

Language exposure benefit to talker learning in an unfamiliar language

conference paper

Language exposure facilitates talker learning prior to language comprehension, even in adults

scientific article

Language preference in monolingual and bilingual infants

scientific article

Language-experience facilitates discrimination of /d-th/ in monolingual and bilingual acquisition of English

scientific article published on 22 August 2005

Learning two languages from birth shapes pre-attentive processing of vowel categories: Electrophysiological correlates of vowel discrimination in monolinguals and simultaneous bilinguals

scientific article published on 5 December 2013

Linguistic influences in adult perception of non-native vowel contrasts

scientific article published on 01 February 1995

Maintainance vs. “loss” of the perceptual bias favoring natural reference vowels

article

Monolingual and bilingual infants' word segmentation abilities in an inter-mixed dual-language task

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

Multifrequency tympanometry in neonatal intensive care unit and well babies

scientific article published in May 2008

Physiological measures of mother-infant interactional synchrony

scientific article published on 06 September 2019

Pre-babbling infants prefer listening to infant speech: Implications for vocal learning in humans

article published in 2014

Reading ability influences native and non-native voice recognition, even for unimpaired readers

scientific article published in January 2016

Reliability of the Language Environment Analysis Recording System in Analyzing French-English Bilingual Speech

scientific article published on 13 June 2019

Segmenting words from fluent speech during infancy - challenges and opportunities in a bilingual context.

scientific article

Setting the Stage for Speech Production: Infants Prefer Listening to Speech Sounds With Infant Vocal Resonances

scientific article published in 2022

Silver medal in speech communication

scientific article published in October 2008

Speech Perception by 6-to 8-Month-Olds in the Presence of Distracting Sounds

scientific article

Speech segmentation in monolingual and bilingual infant learners of Canadian English and Canadian French

scientific article

Standard and multifrequency tympanometry in normal and otosclerotic ears.

scientific article published in August 1997

The Impact of Otitis Media With Effusion on Infant Phonetic Perception

scientific article published on 27 September 2005

The consonant bias in word learning is not determined by position within the word: Evidence from vowel-initial words

scientific article published on 17 June 2018

The developmental course of lexical tone perception in the first year of life.

scientific article published on 20 August 2007

The first steps in word learning are easier when the shoes fit: comparing monolingual and bilingual infants

scientific article published on January 2010

The phonetic landscape in infant consonant perception is an uneven terrain

scientific article

Trading relations in the perception of /r/–/l/ by Japanese learners of English

scientific article published on July 1, 1988

What do bilingual infants actually hear? Evaluating measures of language input to bilingual-learning 10-month-olds

scientific article published on 29 October 2019

When infants talk, infants listen: pre-babbling infants prefer listening to speech with infant vocal properties

scientific article

Who's talking now? Infants' perception of vowels with infant vocal properties

scientific article published on 2 June 2014

Word Segmentation in Monolingual Infants Acquiring Canadian English and Canadian French: Native Language, Cross-Dialect, and Cross-Language Comparisons

scientific article published on 05 April 2011