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Daniel Swingley is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and computer science, with significant contributions to developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence. The scientist's work centers on language development and disorders, phonetics and phonology research, speech and dialogue systems, reading and literacy development, natural language processing techniques, linguistic variation and morphology, and child and animal learning development.

Their recent academic publications include:

  • "Consequences of phonological variation for algorithmic word segmentation," 2023, published in Cognition
  • "Relating referential clarity and phonetic clarity in infant-directed speech," 2023, published in Developmental Science
  • "A protracted developmental trajectory for English-learning children's detection of consonant mispronunciations in newly learned words," 2022, published in Language Acquisition
  • "Computational Modeling of the Segmentation of Sentence Stimuli From an Infant Word-Finding Study," 2024, published in Cognitive Science
  • "Developmental change in English-learning children's interpretations of salient pitch contours in word learning," 2024, published in Infancy

Swingley's frequent coauthors include:

  • Caroline Beech
  • Carolyn Quam
  • Robin Algayres
  • Angelica Buerkin-Pontrelli

The scientist has published multiple works in esteemed journals, with notable repetition in the following venues:

  • Developmental Science
  • Cognition
  • Language Acquisition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Infancy

Their research contributions emphasize the interaction between language learning and phonetic cues, with particular attention to how children process and segment speech and acquire new vocabulary. A combination of computational modeling and experimental psychology characterizes their approach, linking theoretical insights with empirical data.

Best Publications

  • At 6–9 months, human infants know the meanings of many common nouns

    Elika Bergelson;Daniel Swingley

  • Spoken word recognition and lexical representation in very young children.

    Daniel Swingley;Daniel Swingley;Richard N. Aslin

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

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

  • Lexical Neighborhoods and the Word-Form Representations of 14-Month-Olds

    Daniel Swingley;Richard N. Aslin

  • Statistical clustering and the contents of the infant vocabulary.

    Daniel Swingley

  • When Half a Word Is Enough: Infants Can Recognize Spoken Words Using Partial Phonetic Information.

    Anne Fernald;Daniel Swingley;John P. Pinto

  • Continuous processing in word recognition at 24 months

    Daniel Swingley;John P Pinto;Anne Fernald

  • Contributions of infant word learning to language development

    Daniel Swingley

  • 11-month-olds' knowledge of how familiar words sound.

    Daniel Swingley

  • Lexical competition in young children's word learning.

    Daniel Swingley;Richard N. Aslin

  • Linguistic Gender and Spoken-Word Recognition in French

    Delphine Dahan;Daniel Swingley;Michael K. Tanenhaus;James S. Magnuson

  • Fourteen-month-old infants learn similar-sounding words.

    Katherine A. Yoshida;Christopher T. Fennell;Daniel Swingley;Janet F. Werker

  • The Acquisition of Abstract Words by Young Infants.

    Elika Bergelson;Daniel Swingley

  • Early Word Comprehension in Infants: Replication and Extension

    Elika Bergelson;Daniel Swingley

  • Phonetic Detail in the Developing Lexicon

    Daniel Swingley

  • Conceptual Penetration of Visual Processing

    Gary Lupyan;Sharon L. Thompson-Schill;Daniel Swingley

  • Native language governs interpretation of salient speech sound differences at 18 months

    Christiane Dietrich;Daniel Swingley;Janet F. Werker

  • Lexical exposure and word-form encoding in 1.5-year-olds.

    Daniel Swingley

  • Vowel categorization during word recognition in bilingual toddlers.

    Marta Ramon-Casas;Daniel Swingley;Núria Sebastián-Gallés;Núria Sebastián-Gallés;Laura Bosch

  • Onsets and codas in 1.5-year-olds' word recognition.

    Daniel Swingley

  • Fast Mapping and Slow Mapping in Children's Word Learning

    Daniel Swingley

  • Development in Children’s Interpretation of Pitch Cues to Emotions

    Carolyn Quam;Daniel Swingley

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne Fernald
Anne Fernald Stanford University
Gary Lupyan
Gary Lupyan University of Wisconsin–Madison
Richard N. Aslin
Richard N. Aslin Yale University
Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler Western Sydney University
Sharon L. Thompson-Schill
Sharon L. Thompson-Schill University of Pennsylvania
Janet F. Werker
Janet F. Werker University of British Columbia
Núria Sebastián-Gallés
Núria Sebastián-Gallés Pompeu Fabra University
James S. Magnuson
James S. Magnuson University of Connecticut
LouAnn Gerken
LouAnn Gerken University of Arizona
Michael K. Tanenhaus
Michael K. Tanenhaus University of Rochester

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