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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.

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.

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.

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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