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Linda Polka is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a particular focus on linguistics, language development, and bilingualism.

Their research spans several subfields, including linguistics and language, developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, pharmacy, and education. The primary topics covered by their work include:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Child Development and Digital Technology

Linda Polka has published numerous papers, some recent selected works are:

  • "Intersections of official and family language policy in Quebec" (2020), Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
  • "A Multilab Study of Bilingual Infants: Exploring the Preference for Infant-Directed Speech" (2021), Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • "Code-switching in parents' everyday speech to bilingual infants" (2021), Journal of Child Language
  • "Quebec-based Parents' Attitudes Towards Childhood Multilingualism: Evaluative Dimensions and Potential Predictors" (2022), Journal of Language and Social Psychology
  • "Quebec-based parents' concerns regarding their children's multilingual development" (2023), International Journal of Multilingualism

The frequent publication venues where Linda Polka's work appears include:

  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • Journal of Child Language

Collaborations with colleagues form a significant part of their research profile, with frequent co-authors comprising:

  • Krista Byers-Heinlein
  • Adriel John Orena
  • Matthew Masapollo
  • Susan Ballinger
  • Melanie Brouillard

Best Publications

  • Developmental Changes in Perception of Nonnative Vowel Contrasts

    Linda Polka;Janet F. Werker

  • Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference

    Michael C. Frank;Katherine Jane Alcock;Natalia Arias-Trejo;Gisa Aschersleben

  • Cross-language speech perception in adults: phonemic, phonetic, and acoustic contributions.

    Linda Polka

  • A cross‐language comparison of vowel perception in English‐learning and German‐learning infants

    Linda Polka;Ocke‐Schwen Bohn

  • The Developmental Course of Lexical Tone Perception in the First Year of Life.

    Karen Mattock;Monika Molnar;Linda Polka;Denis K Burnham

  • Asymmetries in vowel perception

    Linda Polka;Ocke-Schwen Bohn

  • Natural Referent Vowel (NRV) framework: An emerging view of early phonetic development

    Linda Polka;Ocke-Schwen Bohn

  • A cross-language comparison of /d /–/ð / perception: Evidence for a new developmental pattern

    Linda Polka;Connie Colantonio;Megha Sundara

  • Production of Coronal Stops by Simultaneous Bilingual Adults.

    Megha Sundara;Linda Polka;Shari Baum

  • Linguistic influences in adult perception of non‐native vowel contrasts

    Linda Polka

  • Language-experience facilitates discrimination of /d- / in monolingual and bilingual acquisition of English

    Megha Sundara;Linda Polka;Fred Genesee

  • Development of coronal stop perception: bilingual infants keep pace with their monolingual peers.

    Megha Sundara;Linda Polka;Monika Molnar

  • Characterizing the influence of native language experience on adult speech perception.

    Linda Polka

  • The first steps in word learning are easier when the shoes fit: comparing monolingual and bilingual infants

    Karen Mattock;Linda Polka;Susan Rvachew;Madelaine Krehm

  • Developmental changes in speech perception: new challenges and new directions

    Janet F. Werker;Linda Polka

  • The Conditioned head turn procedure as a method for testing infant speech perception

    Janet F. Werker;Linda Polka;Judith E. Pegg

  • Early word segmentation in infants acquiring Parisian French: task-dependent and dialect-specific aspects*

    Thierry Nazzi;Karima Mersad;Megha Sundara;Galina Iakimova

  • A developmental study of audiovisual speech perception using the McGurk paradigm

    Neil S. Hockley;Linda Polka

  • Word Segmentation in Monolingual Infants Acquiring Canadian English and Canadian French: Native Language, Cross-Dialect, and Cross-Language Comparisons.

    Linda Polka;Megha Sundara

  • Discrimination of coronal stops by bilingual adults: the timing and nature of language interaction.

    Megha Sundara;Linda Polka

  • What do bilingual infants actually hear? Evaluating measures of language input to bilingual-learning 10-month-olds.

    Adriel John Orena;Krista Byers-Heinlein;Krista Byers-Heinlein;Linda Polka

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet F. Werker
Janet F. Werker University of British Columbia
Thierry Nazzi
Thierry Nazzi Université Paris Cité
Krista Byers-Heinlein
Krista Byers-Heinlein Concordia University
Shari R. Baum
Shari R. Baum McGill University
Catherine T. Best
Catherine T. Best Haskins Laboratories
Leher Singh
Leher Singh University of Maryland, Baltimore County
J. Kiley Hamlin
J. Kiley Hamlin University of British Columbia
Fred Genesee
Fred Genesee McGill University
Denis K Burnham
Denis K Burnham Western Sydney University
Michael C. Frank
Michael C. Frank Stanford University

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