Selected Key Publications – Language Program

Crain, S., Koring, L., & Thornton, R. (2017). Language acquisition from a biolinguistic perspective. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews: Special Issue on The Biology of Language [Eds. John J. Bolhuis and Martin Everaert], 81, 120-149.

Howard, D., Best, W., & Nickels, L. (2015). Optimising the design of intervention studies: Critiques and ways forward. Aphasiology, 29(5), 526-562.

Ma, W. & Thompson, W.F. (2015). Human emotions track changes in the acoustic environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112 (47), 14563-14568.

Mealings, K., Cox, F., & Demuth, K. (2013). Acoustic investigations into the delayed acquisition of the syllabic -es plural in 2-year-olds’ speech. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 56, 1260-1271.

Pu, Y., Cornwell, B., Cheyne, D., & Johnson, B.W. (2017). The functional role of human right hippocampal / parahippocampal theta rhythm in environmental encoding during virtual spatial navigation. Human Brain Mapping, 38, 1347-1361.

Thompson, W.F., Marin, M.M., & Stewart, L. (2012). Reduced sensitivity to emotional prosody in congenital amusia rekindles the musical protolanguage hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 109(49), 19027-19032.

Thornton, R., Rombough, K., Martin, J., & Orton, R. (2016). Negative sentences in children with specific language impairment. First Language, 36(3), 228-264.

Tomas, E., Demuth, K., & Petocz, P. (2017). The role of frequency in learning morphophonological alternations: Implications for children with Specific Language Impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 1316-1329.