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Anne Fernald publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anne Fernald sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 109 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Anne Fernald D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anne Fernald sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Anne Fernald is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research primarily within the field of psychology, focusing on developmental and educational psychology. Their research interests center on language development and disorders, reading and literacy development, infant development and preterm care, early childhood education and development, infant health and development, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and neonatal and fetal brain pathology.

Key topics addressed in their work include:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Neonatal and Fetal Brain Pathology

Fernald's publication record shows involvement in peer-reviewed journals that concentrate on developmental science and child psychology. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Developmental Science
  • Modern Fiction Studies
  • Journal of Child Language
  • Child Neuropsychology
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Notable papers authored or coauthored by Fernald cover topics on language processing efficiency, language environment analyses, early cognitive outcomes, and linguistic predictors related to bilingual children and Spanish-speaking caregivers. Selected recent publications are:

  • "Off to a good start: Early Spanish-language processing efficiency supports Spanish- and English-language outcomes at 4½ years in sequential bilinguals," 2020, Developmental Science
  • "Accuracy of the Language Environment Analyses (LENA™) system for estimating child and adult speech in laboratory settings," 2020, Journal of Child Language
  • "Associations between early efficiency in language processing and language and cognitive outcomes in children born full term and preterm: similarities and differences," 2022, Child Neuropsychology
  • "Spanish-speaking caregivers' use of referential labels with toddlers is a better predictor of later vocabulary than their use of referential gestures," 2022, Developmental Science
  • "Not Quite So Kind: Mrs. Dalloway and the Problem of Kindness," 2024, Modern Fiction Studies

Throughout their research career, Anne Fernald has collaborated frequently with several authors in related fields. Notable coauthors include:

  • Virginia A. Marchman
  • Janet Y. Bang
  • Melanie Ashland
  • Elizabeth C. Loi
  • Katherine Adams Shannon

Best Publications

  • SES differences in language processing skill and vocabulary are evident at 18 months

    Anne Fernald;Virginia A. Marchman;Adriana Weisleder

  • Four-Month-Old Infants Prefer to Listen to Motherese"

    Anne Fernald

  • Talking to Children Matters: Early Language Experience Strengthens Processing and Builds Vocabulary

    Adriana Weisleder;Anne Fernald

  • A cross-language study of prosodic modifications in mothers' and fathers' speech to preverbal infants.

    Anne Fernald;Traute Taeschner;Judy Dunn;Mechthild Papousek

  • Expanded Intonation Contours in Mothers' Speech to Newborns.

    Anne Fernald;Thomas Simon

  • Acoustic determinants of infant preference for motherese speech

    Anne Fernald;Patricia K. Kuhl

  • Intonation and Communicative Intent in Mothers' Speech to Infants: Is the Melody the Message?.

    Anne Fernald

  • Speed of word recognition and vocabulary knowledge in infancy predict cognitive and language outcomes in later childhood

    Virginia A. Marchman;Anne Fernald

  • Prosody and focus in speech to infants and adults

    Anne Fernald;Claudia Mazzie

  • Common Themes and Cultural Variations in Japanese and American Mothers' Speech to Infants

    Anne Fernald;Hiromi Morikawa

  • Picking up speed in understanding: Speech processing efficiency and vocabulary growth across the 2nd year.

    Anne Fernald;Amy Perfors;Virginia A. Marchman

  • Intonation and Communicative Intent in Mothers' Speech to Infants: Is the Melody the Message?

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  • Approval and Disapproval: Infant Responsiveness to Vocal Affect in Familiar and Unfamiliar Languages

    Anne Fernald

  • Does input influence uptake? Links between maternal talk, processing speed and vocabulary size in Spanish‐learning children

    Nereyda Hurtado;Virginia A. Marchman;Anne Fernald

  • Young Children Learning Spanish Make Rapid Use of Grammatical Gender in Spoken Word Recognition

    Casey Lew-Williams;Anne Fernald

  • Expanded intonation contours in mothers' speech to newborns.

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  • Rapid Gains in Speed of Verbal Processing by Infants in the 2nd Year

    Anne Fernald;John P. Pinto;Daniel Swingley;Amy Weinberg

  • Looking while listening: Using eye movements to monitor spoken language comprehension by infants and young children.

    Anne Fernald;Renate Zangl;Ana Luz Portillo;Virginia A. Marchman

  • Human maternal vocalizations to infants as biologically relevant signals: An evolutionary perspective.

    Anne Fernald

  • Knowing a lot for one's age: Vocabulary skill and not age is associated with anticipatory incremental sentence interpretation in children and adults

    Arielle Borovsky;Jeffrey L. Elman;Anne Fernald

  • Grammatical gender in L2: A production or a real-time processing problem?

    Theres Grüter;Casey Lew-Williams;Anne Fernald

  • Infants' Responses to Facial and Vocal Emotional Signals in a Social Referencing Paradigm

    Donna L. Mumme;Anne Fernald;Carla Herrera

Frequent Co-Authors

Virginia A. Marchman
Virginia A. Marchman Stanford University
Heidi M. Feldman
Heidi M. Feldman Stanford University
Daniel Swingley
Daniel Swingley University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey L. Elman
Jeffrey L. Elman University of California, San Diego
Lori L. Holt
Lori L. Holt Carnegie Mellon University
Peter F. MacNeilage
Peter F. MacNeilage The University of Texas at Austin
W. Tecumseh Fitch
W. Tecumseh Fitch University of Vienna
Barbara L. Davis
Barbara L. Davis The University of Texas at Austin
Marilyn May Vihman
Marilyn May Vihman University of York
Marcus G. Pandy
Marcus G. Pandy University of Melbourne

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