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Balog, H.L., & Brentari, D. (2008). The relationship between early gestures and intonation. First Language 28(2): 141-163. Nicholas A. Smith October 10, 2008
McFadden, B., & Pittman, A. (2008). Effect of minimal hearing loss on children's ability to multitask in quiet and noise. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 39: 342-351. Dawna Lewis September 26, 2008
Patel, R., & Grigos, M. I. (2006). Acoustic characterization of the question-statement contrast in 4, 7, and 11 year-old children. Speech Communication 48: 1308-1318. Nicholas A. Smith September 12, 2008
Sabbagh, M.A. & Baldwin, D.A. (2001). Learning words from knowledgeable versus ignorant speakers: Links between preschoolers' theory of mind and semantic development. Child Development 72(4): 1054-1070. Mary Pat Moeller August 29, 2008
Patel, A.M., Cahill, L.D., Ret J., Schmithorst, V., Choo, D., & Holland, S. (2007). Functional magnetic resonance imaging of hearing-impaired children under sedation before cochlear implantation. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 133(7):677-683. Ryan McCreery August 1, 2008
US Preventive Services Task Force. (2008). Universal screening for hearing loss in newborns: US Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement. Pediatrics 122(1): 143-148.

Nelson, H.D., Bougatsos, C., & Nygren, P. (2008). Universal screening: Systematic review to update the 2001 US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation. Pediatrics 122(1): e266-e276. 		Mary Pat Moeller July 18, 2008
McCreery, R., Ito, R., Spratford, M., Lewis, D., Hoover, B., Stelmachowicz. (2008). Performance-intensity functions for normal-hearing adults and children using CASPA. Boys Town National Research Hospital manuscript.
download: [ PDF ] [ MS-Word DOC ] 		Ryan McCreery June 20, 2008
Goldstein, M.H. & Schwade, J.A. (2008). Social feedback to infants' babbling facilitates rapid phonological learning. Psychological Science 19(5): 515-523. Mark VanDam May 23, 2008
Fernauld, A., Swingley, D., & Pinto, J.P. (2001). If a word is enough: infants can recognize spoken words using partial phonetic information. Child Development 72(4): 1003-1015. Mary Pat Moeller May 9, 2008
Wellman, M. and Liu, D. (2004). Scaling of Theory-of-Mind tasks. Child Development 75(2): 523-541.

Killeen, P.R. (2005). An alternative to null hypothesis significance tests. Psychological Science 16(5): 345-353. 		Mark VanDam April 25, 2008
Munson, B., C.L. Swenson, & S.C. Manthei. (2005). Lexical and phonological organization in children: evidence from repetition tasks. Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Research 48: 108-124. Mary Pat Moeller March 28, 2008
Uchanski, R.M. & Geers, A.E. (2003). Acoustic characteristics of the speech of young cochlear implant users: A comparison with normal-hearing age-mates. Ear & Hearing 24(1S): 90S-105S.

Tobey, E.A, Geers, A.E., Brenner, C., Altuna, D., & Gabbert, G. (2003). Factors associated with development of speech production skills in children implanted by age five. Ear & Hearing 24(1S): 36S-45S.		 Mark VanDam March 14, 2008
Delage, H. & Tuller, L. (2007). Language development and mild-to-moderate hearing loss: does language normalize with age? Journal of Speech Language Hearing Research 50: 1300-1313 Dawna Lewis February 29, 2008
Rogers, C.L., Lister, J.J, Febo, D., Besing, J. & Abrams, H. (2006). Effects of bilingualism, noise and reverberation on speech perception by listeners with normal hearing. Applied Psycholinguistics 27, 465-485. Kanae Nishi February 15, 2008
Gros-Louis, M., West, M.H., Goldstein, M.J., King, A.P. (2006). Mothers provide differential feedback to infants' prelinguistic sounds. International Journal of Behavioral Development 30, No 6, 509-516. Nick Smith February 1, 2008
Vorperian, H. K., & Kent, R.D. (2007). Vowel acoustic space development in children: a synthesis of acoustic and anatomic data. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 50: 1510-1545. Mark VanDam January 18, 2008
Snow, D. (2006). Regression and reorganization of intonation 6-23 months. Child Development (March/April) 77(2): 281-296. Nick Smith December 7, 2007
Hoff, E., & Naigles, L. (2002). How children use input to acquire a lexicon. Child Development 73(2): 418-433. Mary Pat Moeller November 9, 2007
Graf-Estes, K., Evans, J.L., Alabali, M.W., & Saffran, J.R. (2007). Can Infants map meaning to newly segmented words? Psychological Science 18:3, pp 254-260. Mark VanDam October 26, 2007
Shi, R., Werker, J., & Morgan, J. (1999). Newborn infants' sensitivity to perceptual cues to lexical and grammatical words. Cognition 72: B11-B21.

Shi, R. & Werker, J.(2003). The basis of preference for lexical words in 6-mo old infants. Developmental Science 6(5): 484-488.

Shi, R. & Werker, J. (2001). Six-month-old infants' preference for lexical words. Psychological Science 12(1): 70-75.		 Nick Smith October 12, 2007
Saffran, J.R., Werker, J.F., & Werner, L.A. (2006). The infant's auditory world: Hearing, speech, and the beginnings of language. In Siegler, R., & Kuhn, D. (eds.), Handbook of Child Development, 6th Edition. New York: Wiley, pp. 55-108. Mark VanDam September 28, 2007

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