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Marilyn May Vihman

Marilyn May Vihman

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
48
Citations
10290
World Ranking
3128
National Ranking
530

Marilyn May Vihman publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 152 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Marilyn May Vihman D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marilyn May Vihman sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Marilyn May Vihman is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom and specializes in the field of Psychology, with a focus on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience. Their work explores various aspects of language development and disorders, reading and literacy development, and phonetics and phonology research. Additional research interests include child and animal learning development, hearing impairment and communication, sleep and wakefulness research, and multisensory perception and integration.

Vihman has published research in several academic journals, with repeated contributions to venues such as Infancy, Infant Behavior and Development, Psychological Review, Language Learning, and the Journal of Child Language.

  • Infant looking preferences towards dynamic faces: A systematic review, 2022, Infant Behavior and Development
  • The developmental origins of phonological memory, 2022, Psychological Review
  • Robust effects of stress on early lexical representation, 2020, Infancy
  • Systematic Review of the Effects of Sleep on Memory and Word Learning in Infancy, 2022, Language Learning
  • Child phonological responses to variegation in adult words: A cross-linguistic study, 2022, Journal of Child Language

Their frequent collaborators include Tamar Keren-Portnoy, Margherita Belia, Mitsuhiko Ota, Shanshan Lou, and Rui Qi Choo. The collaborative work spans multiple papers contributing to the fields mentioned above.

Marilyn May Vihman's research centers on developmental processes related to language acquisition, phonological memory, and cognitive aspects of early childhood. The combination of empirical studies and systematic reviews contributes to understanding how infants and young children respond to linguistic stimuli and develop memory and speech-related skills.

Best Publications

  • Phonological Development: The Origins of Language in the Child

    Marilyn May Vihman

  • From Babbling to Speech: A Re-Assessment of the Continuity Issue

    Marilyn May Vihman;Marlys A. Macken;Ruth Miller;Hazel Simmons

  • Phonological Development

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  • Language differentiation by the bilingual infant.

    Marilyn May Vihman

  • Phonological development: Toward a 'radical' templatic phonology

    Marilyn Vihman;William Croft

  • Phonological development from babbling to speech : Common tendencies and individual differences

    Marilyn May Vihman;Charles A. Ferguson;Mary Elbert

  • Adaptation to language: Evidence from babbling and first words in four languages

    Bénédicte de Boysson-Bardies;Marilyn May Vihman

  • Variable paths to early word production

    Marilyn May Vihman

  • Early phonetic and lexical development: a productivity approach

    Lorraine McCune;Marilyn M. Vihman

  • When is a word a word

    Marilyn May Vihman;Lorraine McCune

  • The role of accentual pattern in early lexical representation

    Marilyn M. Vihman;Satsuki Nakai;Rory A. DePaolis;Pierre Hallé

  • Individual differences in phonological development: ages one and three years.

    Marilyn May Vihman;Mel Greenlee

  • Beginnings of prosodic organization: intonation and duration patterns of disyllables produced by Japanese and French infants.

    Pierre A. Hallé;Bénédict De Boysson-Bardies;Marilyn M. Vihman

  • Phonology and the development of the lexicon: evidence from children's errors.

    Marilyn May Vihman

  • Phonological Development: The First Two Years

    Marilyn May Vihman

  • Is There a "Trochaic Bias" in Early Word Learning? Evidence from Infant Production in English and French.

    Marilyn May Vihman;Rory A. DePaolis;Barbara L. Davis

  • What Paves the Way to Conventional Language? The Predictive Value of Babble, Pointing, and Socioeconomic Status.

    Michelle Louise McGillion;Jane S. Herbert;Julian M. Pine;Marilyn Vihman

  • Words and babble at the threshold of language: Acquisition.

    Marilyn May Vihman;Ruth Miller

  • Do production patterns influence the processing of speech in prelinguistic infants

    Rory A. DePaolis;Marilyn M. Vihman;Tamar Keren-Portnoy

  • Learning words and learning sounds: Advances in language development

    Marilyn M. Vihman

  • Grunt communication in human infants (Homo sapiens).

    Lorraine McCune;Marilyn M. Vihman;Marilyn M. Vihman;Liselotte Roug-Hellichius;Diane Bordenave Delery

Frequent Co-Authors

Guillaume Thierry
Guillaume Thierry Bangor University
Barbara L. Davis
Barbara L. Davis The University of Texas at Austin
Marcus G. Pandy
Marcus G. Pandy University of Melbourne
W. Tecumseh Fitch
W. Tecumseh Fitch University of Vienna
Peter F. MacNeilage
Peter F. MacNeilage The University of Texas at Austin
Julian M. Pine
Julian M. Pine University of Liverpool
Anne Fernald
Anne Fernald Stanford University
Lori L. Holt
Lori L. Holt Carnegie Mellon University
Jarrad A. G. Lum
Jarrad A. G. Lum Deakin University
Johan Sundberg
Johan Sundberg Royal Institute of Technology

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