This page last updated April 2008.
Manuscripts under review:
Swingley, D. (under review). Onsets and codas in 1.5-year-olds' word recognition.
Goudbeek, M., Smits, R., & Swingley, D. (under review since October 2007). Supervised and unsupervised learning of multidimensional auditory categories.
Ramon-Casas, M., Bosch, L., Swingley, D., & Sebastian-Galles, N. (under review.) Vowel categorization during word recognition in bilingual toddlers.
Publications:
Swingley, D. (in press). The roots of the early vocabulary in infants' learning from speech. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Yoshida, K., Fennell, C., Swingley, D., & Werker, J.F. (in press). 14-month-olds learn similar-sounding words. Developmental Science.
Dietrich, C., Swingley, D., & Werker, J.F. (2007). Native
language governs interpretation of salient speech sound differences at 18
months. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. Available here
Swingley, D. (2007). Lexical exposure and word-form encoding in
1.5-year-olds. Developmental Psychology, 43, 454-464. pdf
Swingley, D., & Aslin, R.N. (2007). Lexical competition in young
children's word learning. Cognitive Psychology, 54, 99-132. pdf
Swingley, D. (2005). 11-month-olds' knowledge of how familiar words
sound. Developmental Science, 8, 432-443. pdf
Swingley, D. (2005). Statistical clustering and the contents of
the infant vocabulary. Cognitive Psychology, 50, 86-132. pdf
Goudbeek, M., Smits, R., Swingley, D., & Cutler, A. (2005). Acquiring
auditory and phonetic categories. In H. Cohen & C. Lefebvre (Eds.),
Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science, Elsevier.
Swingley, D. (2003). Phonetic detail in the developing
lexicon. Language and Speech, 46, 265-294. pdf
Swingley, D. and Aslin, R.N. (2002). Lexical neighborhoods and
the word-form representations of 14-month-olds. Psychological
Science, 13, 480-484. pdf
Swingley, D. and Fernald, A. (2002). Recognition of words
referring to present and absent objects by 24-month-olds. Journal
of Memory and Language, 46, 39-56. pdf
Fernald, A., McRoberts, G.W., and Swingley, D. (2001). Infants'
developing competence in recognizing and understanding words in fluent
speech. In J. Weissenborn & B. Hoehle (eds.) Approaches to
bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic, and
neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition (Vol. I,
pp. 97-123). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Fernald, A., Swingley, D., and Pinto, J.P. (2001). When half
a word is enough: infants can recognize spoken words using partial
phonetic information. Child Development, 72, 1003-1015. pdf
Swingley, D. and Aslin, R.N. (2000) Spoken word recognition and
lexical representation in very young children. Cognition, 76,
147-166. pdf
Dahan, D., Swingley, D., Tanenhaus, M.K., and Magnuson, J.S. (2000).
Linguistic gender and spoken word recognition in French. Journal of
Memory and Language, 42, 465-480.
Swingley, D. (1999). Conditional probability and word discovery: A
corpus analysis of speech to infants. In Proceedings of the 21st
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 724-729).
Mahwah, NJ.: LEA.
Swingley, D., Pinto, J.P., and Fernald, A. (1999). Continuous
processing in word recognition at 24 months. Cognition, 71, 73-108.
Swingley, D., Pinto, J.P., and Fernald, A. (1998). Assessing the speed
and accuracy of word recognition in infants. Advances in Infancy
Research, 12, pp. 257-277.
Fernald, A., Pinto, J.P., Swingley, D., Weinberg, A., and
McRoberts, G. (1998). Rapid gains in speed of verbal processing by
infants in the second year. Psychological Science, 9, 228-231.
(Reprinted in M. Tomasello and E. Bates (eds.), Language Development:
The Essential Readings. Blackwell, 2001.)
Swingley, D. (1997). Word Recognition and Representation in Young
Children. PhD thesis, Stanford University Department of
Psychology.
Swingley, D., Fernald, A., McRoberts, G., and Pinto, J.P. (1996).
Prosody, functors, and word recognition in young children. In
Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference on Language Development (pp.
760-767). Somerville, MA.: Cascadilla Press.
Invited talks:
Swingley, D. (May, 2008). The early development of phonetic
categorization and interpretation. Colloquium, Ohio State University
Department of Linguistics.
Swingley, D. (March, 2008). Deriving reference from the senses.
Lecture for the formal opposition to a PhD defense, Stockholm University
Department of Linguistics.
Swingley, D. (February, 2008). Phonological development and
distributional category learning: 3 solutions. Columbia University
Seminar on Language and Cognition.
Swingley, D. (June, 2007). Phonetic categories: what statistics, and
what generalizations? Paper presented at the workshop Current Issues in
Language Acquisition: Artificial Languages and Statistical Learning,
Calgary.
Swingley, D. (October, 2006). Perception and interpretation in early
language development. Colloquium, New York University Department of
Psychology.
Swingley, D. (May, 2006). Distributional learning and phonetic
development. Paper presented at the workshop Counts, Cues, Constraints, and
Computation in Language Learning, University of Maryland Department of
Linguistics.
Swingley, D. (March, 2006). Statistical sequence clustering and vocabulary
development in infancy. Paper presented at the IGERT workshop Statistical
Approaches to Language Learning and Language Processing, University of
Pennsylvania.
Swingley, D. (February, 2006). Perception in developmental phonology; or,
where do words come from? Colloquium, Brown University Center for the
Study of Human Development.
Swingley, D. (October, 2005). Acquisition and function of phonetic
categories in early childhood. Colloquium, University of Maryland
Department of Linguistics.
Swingley, D. (September, 2005). Phonetic categorization and
phonological interpretation in infants and toddlers. Colloquium,
University of Pennsylvania Institute for Research in Cognitive
Science.
Swingley, D. (November, 2003). Phonological representation in young
children's first words. Yale Developmental Psychology Colloquium.
Swingley, D. (June, 2002). The development of word recognition in
infants and young children. Paper presented at the Euresco
conference Brain Development and Cognition in Human Infants,
Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy.
Swingley, D. (March, 2002). The picture fixation method in infant
speech comprehension research. Paper presented at the second
McDonnell Foundation workshop on infant cognition methodologies
(organizers: Richard N. Aslin and Jacques Mehler), Venice.
Swingley, D. (October, 2001). Word-form learning and the developing
lexicon. Paper presented at the workshop Early Phonological
Acquisition, Carry-le-Rouet, France.
Swingley, D. (July, 2001). What might infants use phonemes for?
Paper presented at the workshop Human Speech Recognition as
Pattern Classification, Nijmegen.
Swingley, D. (November, 2000). Mécanismes de reconnaissance
des mots parlés chez les très jeunes enfants. Paper
presented at the IIIèmes Journées de l’Ecole
d’Orthophonie de Lyon: Accéder aux Langages, Lyon.
Swingley, D. (July, 2000). Lexical representation in children’s
second year. Paper presented at the workshop Speech Perception
Development in Early Infancy: Behavioural, Neural-Modelling and
Brain-Imaging Data, Barcelona.
Swingley, D. (April, 2000). Do good neighbors make good fences?
Paper presented at the workshop Finding the Words, Stanford,
CA.
Swingley, D. (February, 2000). Two kinds of robustness in early
word recognition. Paper presented at the workshop Development and
Interaction of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Cognition in Infants,
Berlin.
Presentations:
Van der Feest, S.V.H. & Swingley, D. (March, 2008). A crosslinguistic study
of vowel duration in 21-month-olds' early lexical representations. Paper
to be presented at the 16th International Conference on Infant
Studies, Vancouver.
Swingley, D. (November, 2007). Introduction to the Society for Language
Development's symposium Generalization in Language Learning, Boston.
Quam, C., & Swingley, D. (November, 2007). Phonological knowledge trumps
salient local regularity in 2-year-olds' word learning. Poster
presented at the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language
Development, Boston.
Goudbeek, M., Swingley, D., & Kluender, K.R. (August, 2007). The limits
of multidimensional category learning. Poster presented at Interspeech
2007, Antwerp.
Goudbeek, M., Swingley, D., & Cutler, A. (December, 2006). Saliency
effects in distributional learning. Poster presented at the Eleventh
Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology,
Auckland.
Creel, S.C., Dahan, D., & Swingley, D. (September, 2006). Effects of
featural similarity and overlap position on lexical confusions and overt
similarity judgments. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on
Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, US, pp. 1503-1506.
Swingley, D. (June, 2006). Data-driven phonological distinction without
phonetic opposition. Paper presented at the XVth Biennial International
Conference on Infant Studies, Kyoto.
Swingley, D. (June, 2006). Constraints on learning mechanisms in 4 basic
developmental domains: objects, music, phonology, and syntax. Paper
symposium presented at the XVth Biennial International Conference on Infant
Studies, Kyoto.
Yoshida, K.A., Fennell, C., Swingley, D., & Werker, J.F. (June,
2006). Encoding and retrieval of phonetic detail in novel words at 14
months. Paper presented at the XVth Biennial International Conference on
Infant Studies, Kyoto.
Swingley, D. (November, 2005). Representation and process in
one-year-olds' word recognition. Paper presented at the 30th
Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development,
Boston.
Ramon-Casas, M., Bosch, L., Swingley, D., and Sebastian-Galles, N.
(July, 2005). Early word recognition in bilinguals: differential
sensitivity to vowel mispronunciations in known words. Paper presented at
the Tenth Congress of the International Association for the Study of
Child Language, Berlin.
Swingley, D., and Aslin, R.N. (November, 2004). Competition from
familiar words inhibits learning of phonologically similar words by
18-month-olds. Paper presented at the 29th Annual Boston University
Conference on Language Development,, Boston.
Dietrich, C., Swingley, D., and Werker, J.F. (November, 2004).
One-year-olds' language-specific phonological categorization in word
learning: a cross-linguistic study. Paper presented at the 29th Annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development,, Boston.
Swingley, D. (May, 2004). Phonological encoding of familiar word-forms
at 11 months. Paper presented at the 2004 International
Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago.
Swingley, D. (April, 2003). Two limits on one-year-olds' word-learning
performance. Paper presented at the 2003 Society for Research in Child
Development Biennial Meeting, Tampa.
Swingley, D. (April, 2003). Speech perception and word learning:
continuity and change in the first two years. Paper symposium presented at
the 2003 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting,
Tampa.
Goudbeek, M., Smits, R., and Swingley, D. (November, 2002).
Unsupervised learning of unidimensional and multidimensional auditory
categories. Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the
Psychonomic Society, Kansas City.
Swingley, D. (November, 2002). On the phonological encoding of
novel words by one-year-olds. Paper presented at the 27th Annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston.
Dietrich, C. and Swingley, D. (November, 2002). Infants'
processing of language-specific vowel information in linguistic
context. Paper presented at the 27th Annual Boston University
Conference on Language Development, Boston.
Swingley, D. (December, 2001). Phonetic representation in the
developing lexicon. Paper presented at the symposium Early
Lexicon Acquisition: Normal and Pathological Development,
Lyon.
Swingley, D. (April, 2001). Word recognition in the second year:
what develops? Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the
Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis.
Swingley, D. (November, 2000). On the origins of infants’
lexical parsing preferences. Paper presented at the 25th Annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston.
Swingley, D. and Fernald, A. (November, 1999). Rapid activation in
the 24-month-old’s lexicon. Paper presented at the 24th Annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston.
Swingley, D. (December, 1999). Reference and linguistic forms in
one-year-olds. Paper presented at the First Bisontine Conference
for Conceptual and Linguistic Development in the Child Aged 1 to 6
years, Besançon, France.
Swingley, D. and Aslin, R.N. (April, 1999). Mispronunciation
detection in 18- to 21-month-old infants. Poster presented at the
Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child
Development, Albuquerque.
Dahan, D., Swingley, D., Tanenhaus, M.K., and Magnuson, J.S.
(September, 1998). The role of linguistic gender in spoken-word
recognition in French. Paper presented at Architectures and
Mechanisms for Language Processing, Freiburg, Germany.
Swingley, D. (April, 1998). Speech processing in very young
children. Paper presented at the 11th Biennial International
Conference on Infant Studies, Atlanta.
Fernald, A., Swingley, D., and Pinto, J.P. (April, 1998). Emerging
understanding: Rapid gains in the speed and efficiency of word
recognition by infants in the second year. Paper presented at the
11th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies,
Atlanta.
Fernald, A., Pinto, J.P., Swingley, D., Perfors, A., Magnani, K.,
and Bradley, A. (April, 1998). Infants can recognize words using
partial phonetic information. Poster presented at the 11th Biennial
International Conference on Infant Studies, Atlanta.
Swingley, D., Pinto, J.P., and Fernald, A. (November, 1997).
Continuous monitoring of the speech stream by 24-month-olds. Paper
presented at the 22nd Annual Boston University Conference on
Language Development, Boston.
Swingley, D. (April, 1997). The robust speed of one-year-olds’
speech processing. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the
Society for Research in Child Development, Washington D.C.
Fernald, A., Swingley, D., and Pinto, J.P. (September, 1996).
Emerging understandings: experimental research on the development of
receptive language abilities in the second year. Paper presented at
the conference How to Get Into Language: Approaches to
bootstrapping in early language development, Berlin, Germany.
Fernald, A., Pinto, J.P., and Swingley, D. (June, 1996). How
infants in the second year get better at understanding words in
speech. Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Convention of the
American Psychological Society, San Francisco.
Morgan, J.L., Swingley, D., and Mitirai, K., (March, 1993). Infants
listen longer to speech with extraneous noises inserted at clause
boundaries. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society
for Research in Child Development, New Orleans.
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