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Nan Bernstein Ratner is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research centers on psychology with a focus on several subfields including developmental and educational psychology, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

The main topics in their work encompass language development and disorders, stuttering research and treatment, phonetics and phonology research, reading and literacy development, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, autism spectrum disorder research, and infant health and development.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Nan Bernstein Ratner include Rochelle S. Newman, Brian MacWhinney, Julianne Garbarino, Shelley B. Brundage, and Soo-Eun Chang.

Key recent papers by Nan Bernstein Ratner are:

  • Consensus Guidelines for the Assessments of Individuals Who Stutter Across the Lifespan, 2021, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • Change in maternal speech rate to preverbal infants over the first two years of life, 2020, Journal of Child Language
  • Using narratives in differential diagnosis of neurodegenerative syndromes, 2020, Journal of Communication Disorders
  • Lexical diversity and lexical skills in children who stutter, 2020, Journal of Fluency Disorders
  • Linguistic Aspects of Stuttering, 2022, Topics in Language Disorders

Nan Bernstein Ratner frequently publishes in outlets such as the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Journal of Fluency Disorders, Frontiers in Psychology, Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, and Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups.

Best Publications

  • Infants' early ability to segment the conversational speech signal predicts later language development: a retrospective analysis.

    Rochelle Newman;Nan Bernstein Ratner;Ann Marie Jusczyk;Peter W. Jusczyk

  • EFFECTS OF GRADUAL INCREASES IN SENTENCE LENGTH AND COMPLEXITY ON CHILDREN'S DYSFLUENCY

    Nan Bernstein Ratner;Catherine Costa Sih

  • Phonetic Profiles of Toddlers With Specific Expressive Language Impairment (SLI-E)

    Leslie Rescorla;Nan Bernstein Ratner

  • Input and uptake at 7 months predicts toddler vocabulary: the role of child-directed speech and infant processing skills in language development

    Rochelle S. Newman;Meredith L. Rowe;Nan Bernstein Ratner

  • Patterns of vowel modification in mother-child speech

    Nan Bernstein Ratner

  • Nonword repetition abilities of children who stutter: an exploratory study.

    Haya Berman Hakim;Nan Bernstein Ratner

  • Evidence-based practice: an examination of its ramifications for the practice of speech-language pathology.

    Nan Bernstein Ratner

  • Atypical language in lesional and nonlesional complex partial epilepsy.

    W. D. Gaillard;M. M. Berl;E. N. Moore;E. N. Moore;E. K. Ritzl

  • Durational cues which mark clause boundaries in mother–child speech

    Nan Bernstein Ratner

  • Higher pitch in BT is not universal: acoustic evidence from Quiche Mayan.

    Nan Bernstein Ratner;Clifton Pye

  • Maternal speech rate modification and childhood stuttering

    Deborah Stephenson-Opsal;Nan Bernstein Ratner

  • Measuring lexical diversity in children who stutter: application of vocd.

    Stacy Silverman;Nan Bernstein Ratner

  • Syntactic Complexity, Fluency, and Accuracy of Sentence Imitation in Adolescents

    Stacy W. Silverman;Nan Bernstein Ratner

  • Functional anatomy of listening and reading comprehension during development.

    Madison M. Berl;Elizabeth S. Duke;Jessica Mayo;Lisa R. Rosenberger

  • Regional differences in the developmental trajectory of lateralization of the language network

    Madison M. Berl;Jessica Mayo;Erin N. Parks;Lisa R. Rosenberger

  • Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) Vowel Clarity and Child Language Outcomes.

    Kelly M. Hartman;Nan Bernstein Ratner;Rochelle S. Newman

  • Methods for studying language production

    Lise Menn;Nan Bernstein Ratner

  • Parental perceptions of children's communicative development at stuttering onset.

    Nan Bernstein Ratner;Stacy Silverman

  • First Language Acquisition

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  • An assessment of the information-seeking abilities and needs of practicing speech-language pathologists.

    Barbara Nail-Chiwetalu;Nan Bernstein Ratner

  • Evidence-based practice in stuttering: Some questions to consider.

    Nan Bernstein Ratner

  • Stuttering Research and Practice: Bridging the Gap

    Nan Bernstein Ratner;E. Charles Healey

Frequent Co-Authors

Chandan J. Vaidya
Chandan J. Vaidya Georgetown University
Brian MacWhinney
Brian MacWhinney Carnegie Mellon University
Leslie Rescorla
Leslie Rescorla Bryn Mawr College
Peter W. Jusczyk
Peter W. Jusczyk Johns Hopkins University
Meredith L. Rowe
Meredith L. Rowe Harvard University
Mark Onslow
Mark Onslow University of Technology Sydney
Elizabeth Redcay
Elizabeth Redcay University of Maryland, College Park
Emmanuel Dupoux
Emmanuel Dupoux School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Ann Packman
Ann Packman University of Technology Sydney
J. Scott Yaruss
J. Scott Yaruss Michigan State University

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