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Erika Hoff is affiliated with Florida Atlantic University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on language development, psychology, and social sciences, with particular emphasis on developmental and educational psychology as well as linguistics and language.

Their work extensively covers topics such as language development and disorders, reading and literacy development, multilingual education and policy, child and animal learning development, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, early childhood education and development, and language, discourse, and communication strategies.

Recent publications by Erika Hoff include:

  • "Explaining Individual Differences in Trajectories of Simultaneous Bilingual Development: Contributions of Child and Environmental Factors" (2020), published in Child Development
  • "Profiles of Minority-Majority Language Proficiency in 5-Year-Olds" (2021), published in Child Development
  • "Why bilingual development is not easy" (2021), published in Advances in child development and behavior
  • "Home language and societal language skills in second-generation bilingual adults" (2020), published in International Journal of Bilingualism
  • "Language exposure outside the home becomes more English-dominant from 30 to 60 months for children from Spanish-speaking homes in the United States" (2020), published in International Journal of Bilingualism

Frequently publishing venues for Hoff include:

  • International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
  • Journal of Child Language
  • Child Development
  • International Journal of Bilingualism
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Collaborations have been made with several coauthors, including Michelle K. Tulloch, David Giguere, Cynthia Core, Anders Højen, and Dorthe Bleses, each contributing to multiple works with Hoff.

Erika Hoff has authored book publications, including a notable title titled Language Development, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Best Publications

  • The Specificity of Environmental Influence: Socioeconomic Status Affects Early Vocabulary Development Via Maternal Speech

    Erika Hoff

  • How social contexts support and shape language development

    Erika Hoff

  • Socioeconomic Status and Parenting

    Erika Hoff;Brett Laursen

  • Interpreting the Early Language Trajectories of Children From Low-SES and Language Minority Homes: Implications for Closing Achievement Gaps

    Erika Hoff

  • How Children Use Input to Acquire a Lexicon

    Erika Hoff;Letitia Naigles

  • Person-Centered and Variable-Centered Approaches to Longitudinal Data

    Brett Paul Laursen;Erika Hoff

  • Properties of dual language exposure that influence 2-year-olds' bilingual proficiency.

    Silvia Place;Erika Hoff

  • Socioeconomic status and cultural influences on language.

    Erika Hoff;Chunyan Tian

  • The language and literacy development of young dual language learners: A critical review

    Carol Scheffner Hammer;Erika Hoff;Yuuko Uchikoshi;Cristina Gillanders

  • Language Matters: Denying the Existence of the 30-Million-Word Gap Has Serious Consequences

    Roberta Michnick Golinkoff;Erika Hoff;Meredith L. Rowe;Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda

  • Causes and consequences of SES-related differences in parent-to-child speech.

    Erika Hoff

  • Total and Conceptual Vocabulary in Spanish–English Bilinguals From 22 to 30 Months: Implications for Assessment

    Cynthia Core;Erika Hoff;Rosario Rumiche;Melissa Señor

  • Expressive vocabulary development in children from bilingual and monolingual homes: A longitudinal study from two to four years

    Erika Hoff;Rosario Rumiche;Andrea Burridge;Krystal M. Ribot

  • Older sibling influences on the language environment and language development of toddlers in bilingual homes

    Kelly Bridges;Erika Hoff

  • Input and Language Development in Bilingually Developing Children

    Erika Hoff;Cynthia Core

  • Input and the Acquisition of Language: Three Questions

    Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole;Erika Hoff

  • Bilingual Development in Children of Immigrant Families.

    Erika Hoff

  • Relations among language exposure, phonological memory, and language development in Spanish-English bilingually developing 2-year-olds.

    Marisol Parra;Erika Hoff;Cynthia Core

  • Effects and noneffects of input in bilingual environments on dual language skills in 2 ½-year-olds

    Silvia Place;Erika Hoff

  • Flexibility in early verb use : evidence from a multiple-n dairy study : I. Introduction

    Letitia R. Naigles;Erika Hoff;Donna Vear;Michael Tomasello

  • Context effects on young children’s language use: The influence of conversational setting and partner:

    Erika Hoff

  • Non-word repetition assesses phonological memory and is related to vocabulary development in 20- to 24-month-olds*

    Erika Hoff;Cynthia Core;Kelly Bridges

Frequent Co-Authors

Letitia R. Naigles
Letitia R. Naigles University of Connecticut
Sandra R. Waxman
Sandra R. Waxman Northwestern University
Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University
Brett Laursen
Brett Laursen Florida Atlantic University
Meredith L. Rowe
Meredith L. Rowe Harvard University
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff University of Delaware
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Temple University
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda New York University
Philip S. Dale
Philip S. Dale University of New Mexico
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago

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