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Elizabeth K. Johnson

Elizabeth K. Johnson

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
47
Citations
13584
World Ranking
3303
National Ranking
191

Overview

Elizabeth K. Johnson is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research contributions are primarily situated within the field of Psychology, with a specific focus on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Linguistics and Language. Their scholarly work intersects with several core topics including Phonetics and Phonology Research, Language Development and Disorders, Child and Animal Learning Development, Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Reading and Literacy Development, and Early Childhood Education and Development.

Their recent publications reflect a broad engagement with language acquisition and developmental processes. Notable papers include: "The song, not the singer: Infants prefer to listen to familiar songs, regardless of singer identity" published in 2021 in Developmental Science; "Navigating Accent Variation: A Developmental Perspective" from 2021 in the Annual Review of Linguistics; "Comparing Phonetic Convergence in Children and Adults" published in Language and Speech in 2021; "Infants' and toddlers' language development during the pandemic: Socioeconomic status mattered" in the 2023 Journal of Experimental Child Psychology; and "Developmental improvements in talker recognition are specific to the native language," which appeared in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology in 2020.

Elizabeth K. Johnson has frequently collaborated with colleagues in the field, including Thomas St. Pierre, Katherine S. White, Melissa Paquette-Smith, Natalie Fecher, and Angela Cooper. These collaborations have contributed to a diverse publication record in various academic venues.

Their most common publication venues encompass:

  • JASA Express Letters
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Language Learning and Development
  • Journal of Child Language

Their coauthors with the highest number of joint publications include:

  • Thomas St. Pierre (9 publications)
  • Katherine S. White (6 publications)
  • Melissa Paquette-Smith (5 publications)
  • Natalie Fecher (5 publications)
  • Angela Cooper (5 publications)

Their research robustly addresses the interface of linguistic variation and phonetic development in early childhood, with particular attention to how infants and children perceive language and accent differences. This focus is evident in their diverse output across both developmental psychology and language sciences, which integrates experimental and cognitive methods to explore language acquisition and communication strategies.

Best Publications

  • Forecasting the global burden of Alzheimer’s disease

    Ron Brookmeyer;Elizabeth Johnson;Kathryn Ziegler-Graham;H. Michael Arrighi

  • Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults.

    Jenny R Saffran;Elizabeth K Johnson;Richard N Aslin;Elissa L Newport

  • Word Segmentation by 8-Month-Olds: When Speech Cues Count More Than Statistics

    Elizabeth K. Johnson;Peter W. Jusczyk

  • Language Discrimination by English-Learning 5-Month-Olds: Effects of Rhythm and Familiarity

    Thierry Nazzi;Peter W Jusczyk;Elizabeth K Johnson

  • Mortality and morbidity in laboratory-maintained Rhesus monkeys and effects of long-term dietary restriction.

    Noni L. Bodkin;Theresa M. Alexander;Heidi K. Ortmeyer;Elizabeth Johnson

  • Infant word segmentation revisited: edge alignment facilitates target extraction.

    Amanda Seidl;Elizabeth K. Johnson

  • Worldwide variation in the doubling time of Alzheimer's disease incidence rates.

    Kathryn Ziegler-Graham;Ron Brookmeyer;Elizabeth Johnson;H. Michael Arrighi

  • Testing the limits of statistical learning for word segmentation.

    Elizabeth K. Johnson;Michael D. Tyler

  • Association of Amphetamine-Induced Striatal Dopamine Release and Cortisol Responses to Psychological Stress

    Gary S Wand;Lynn M Oswald;Lynn M Oswald;Mary E McCaul;Dean F Wong

  • Question or tone 2? How language experience and linguistic function guide pitch processing

    Bettina Braun;Elizabeth K. Johnson

  • Fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter isolates from conventional and antibiotic-free chicken products.

    Lance B. Price;Elizabeth Johnson;Rocio Vailes;Ellen Silbergeld

  • Why Do Children Become Vitamin A Deficient

    Melissa Miller;Jean Humphrey;Elizabeth Johnson;Edmore Marinda

  • Developmental Changes in Infants' Ability to Cope with Dialect Variation in Word Recognition

    Rachel Schmale;Alejandrina Cristia;Amanda Seidl;Elizabeth K. Johnson

  • Learning to contend with accents in infancy: Benefits of brief speaker exposure

    Marieke van Heugten;Elizabeth K. Johnson

  • Infant ability to tell voices apart rests on language experience.

    Elizabeth K. Johnson;Ellen Westrek;Thierry Nazzi;Anne Cutler

  • New Physician-Investigators Receiving National Institutes of Health Research Project Grants: A Historical Perspective on the “Endangered Species”

    Howard B. Dickler;Di Fang;Stephen J. Heinig;Elizabeth Johnson

  • The edge factor in early word segmentation: utterance-level prosody enables word form extraction by 6-month-olds.

    Elizabeth K. Johnson;Amanda Seidl;Michael D. Tyler

  • At 11 months, prosody still outranks statistics

    Elizabeth K. Johnson;Amanda H. Seidl

  • Modeling the optimum duration of antibiotic prophylaxis in an anthrax outbreak

    Ron Brookmeyer;Elizabeth Johnson;Robert Bollinger

  • Constructing a Proto-Lexicon: An Integrative View of Infant Language Development

    Elizabeth K. Johnson

  • The Developmental Trajectory of Toddlers' Comprehension of Unfamiliar Regional Accents.

    Marieke van Heugten;Dena R. Krieger;Elizabeth K. Johnson

  • Worldwide variation in the doubling time of Alzheimer disease incidence rates.

    Kathryn Ziegler-Graham;Ron Brookmeyer;Elizabeth Johnson;H Michael Arrighi

Frequent Co-Authors

Amanda Seidl
Amanda Seidl Purdue University West Lafayette
Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler Western Sydney University
Peter W. Jusczyk
Peter W. Jusczyk Johns Hopkins University
Thierry Nazzi
Thierry Nazzi Université Paris Cité
Dennis Norris
Dennis Norris University of Cambridge
Barbara B. Biesecker
Barbara B. Biesecker RTI International
Guillaume Thierry
Guillaume Thierry Bangor University
Jeffery P. Struewing
Jeffery P. Struewing National Institutes of Health
Caryn Lerman
Caryn Lerman University of Southern California
Falk Huettig
Falk Huettig Max Planck Society

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