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Overview

Jan Edwards is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a strong specialization in developmental and educational psychology. Other areas of study include cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, linguistics and language, and artificial intelligence.

Their scholarly work addresses a range of topics including:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology

Edward's recent publications demonstrate a focus on language processing, auditory perception, and developmental disorders. Notable papers include:

  • "Children With Cochlear Implants Use Semantic Prediction to Facilitate Spoken Word Recognition" (2021) published in the Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • "Gradient activation of speech categories facilitates listeners' recovery from lexical garden paths, but not perception of speech-in-noise" (2021) published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • "Predictive language processing in young autistic children" (2022) published in Autism Research
  • "Competing Perceptual Salience in a Visual Word Recognition Task Differentially Affects Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder" (2020) published in Autism Research
  • "Auditory feedback experience in the development of phonetic production: Evidence from preschoolers with cochlear implants and their normal-hearing peers" (2021) published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Frequent co-authors working alongside Edwards include Rochelle S. Newman, Benjamin Munson, Ron Pomper, Arynn S. Byrd, and Christina Blomquist. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary efforts spanning language development, auditory processing, and cognitive psychology.

Edwards's work is often published in venues such as the Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Child Language, Autism Research, and Applied Psycholinguistics. The consistent publication record across these journals highlights a focus on the intersection of language, hearing, and cognitive processes.

Best Publications

  • The interaction between vocabulary size and phonotactic probability effects on children's production accuracy and fluency in nonword repetition.

    Jan Edwards;Mary E. Beckman;Benjamin Munson

  • The articulatory kinematics of final lengthening.

    Jan Edwards;Mary E. Beckman;Janet Fletcher

  • Nonword repetitions of children with specific language impairment: Exploration of some explanations for their inaccuracies

    Jan Edwards;Margaret Lahey

  • The Interplay Between Prosodic Structure and Coarticulation

    Kenneth de Jong;Mary E. Beckman;Jan Edwards

  • Prosodic structure and tempo in a sonority model of articulatory dynamics

    Mary Beckman;Jan Edwards;Janet Fletcher

  • Relationships between nonword repetition accuracy and other measures of linguistic development in children with phonological disorders

    Benjamin Munson;Jan Edwards;Mary E. Beckman

  • Phonological Structure and Phonetic Form: Articulatory evidence for differentiating stress categories

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  • The Impact of Auditory Spectral Resolution on Listening Effort Revealed by Pupil Dilation

    Matthew B. Winn;Jan R. Edwards;Ruth Y. Litovsky

  • Papers in Laboratory Phonology: Lengthenings and shortenings and the nature of prosodic constituency

    Mary E. Beckman;Jan Edwards

  • The ontogeny of phonological categories and the primacy of lexical learning in linguistic development.

    Mary E. Beckman;Jan Edwards

  • Naming Errors of Children With Specific Language Impairment

    Margaret Lahey;Jan Edwards

  • Contrast and covert contrast: The phonetic development of voiceless sibilant fricatives in English and Japanese toddlers.

    Fangfang Li;Jan Edwards;Mary E. Beckman

  • Why Do Children with Specific Language Impairment Name Pictures More Slowly Than Their Peers

    Margaret Lahey;Jan Edwards

  • Final consonant discrimination in children: effects of phonological disorder, vocabulary size, and articulatory accuracy.

    Jan Edwards;Robert A. Fox;Catherine L. Rogers

  • Methodological questions in studying consonant acquisition

    Jan Edwards;Mary E. Beckman

  • Deconstructing phonetic transcription: covert contrast, perceptual bias, and an extraterrestrial view of Vox Humana.

    Benjamin Munson;Jan Edwards;Sarah K. Schellinger;Mary E. Beckman

  • Auditory Lexical Decisions of Children With Specific Language Impairment

    Jan Edwards;Margaret Lahey

  • Some Cross-Linguistic Evidence for Modulation of Implicational Universals by Language-Specific Frequency Effects in Phonological Development

    Jan Edwards;Mary E. Beckman

  • Phonological Knowledge in Typical and Atypical Speech-Sound Development.

    Benjamin Munson;Jan Edwards;Mary E. Beckman

  • Articulatory Timing and the Prosodic Interpretation of Syllable Duration

    Jan Edwards;Mary.E Beckman

  • Phonotactic constraints on infant word learning.

    Katharine Graf Estes;Jan Edwards;Jenny R. Saffran

Frequent Co-Authors

Jenny R. Saffran
Jenny R. Saffran University of Wisconsin–Madison
Susan Ellis Weismer
Susan Ellis Weismer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Gary Weismer
Gary Weismer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bob McMurray
Bob McMurray University of Iowa
Maryellen C. MacDonald
Maryellen C. MacDonald University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stephen Monsell
Stephen Monsell University of Exeter
Mark S. Seidenberg
Mark S. Seidenberg University of Wisconsin–Madison
Timothy T. Rogers
Timothy T. Rogers University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sharynne McLeod
Sharynne McLeod Charles Sturt University
Carol Stoel-Gammon
Carol Stoel-Gammon University of Washington

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