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Virginia A. Marchman

Virginia A. Marchman

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Psychology

D-Index
49
Citations
17288
World Ranking
5547
National Ranking
3025

Overview

Virginia A. Marchman is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans the intersection of medicine and psychology, with a significant focus on developmental and educational psychology as well as pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. Their work addresses various aspects of infant development and preterm care, language development and disorders, and neonatal respiratory health.

The main research topics covered by their publications include:

  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neonatal and Fetal Brain Pathology
  • Child and Animal Learning Development

Marchman has contributed to multiple academic journals, frequently publishing in specialized venues. The most common publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Developmental Science
  • The Journal of Pediatrics
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Journal of Perinatology

Leading recent papers authored by Marchman cover a range of developmental and language-focused topics:

  • The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories: updates from the CDI Advisory Board, 2023, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Off to a good start: Early Spanish-language processing efficiency supports Spanish- and English-language outcomes at 4½ years in sequential bilinguals, 2020, Developmental Science

Marchman collaborates regularly with several researchers active in related fields. Frequently listed co-authors are:

  • Katherine E. Travis
  • Melissa Scala
  • Heidi M. Feldman
  • Michael C. Frank
  • Molly F. Lazarus

The scholar has also contributed to book publications, notably one published by The MIT Press titled Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning (2021), which has been cited extensively.

The breadth of Marchman's work addresses critical developmental stages and conditions in infancy, combining aspects of health, language acquisition, and cognitive development within both clinical and psychological frameworks.

Best Publications

  • SES differences in language processing skill and vocabulary are evident at 18 months

    Anne Fernald;Virginia A. Marchman;Adriana Weisleder

  • U-shaped learning and frequency effects in a multi-layered perceptron: implications for child language acquisition.

    Kim Plunkett;Virginia Marchman

  • From rote learning to system building: acquiring verb morphology in children and connectionist nets

    Kim Plunkett;Virginia Marchman

  • Developmental and Stylistic Variation in the Composition of Early Vocabulary.

    Elizabeth Bates;Virginia A. Marchman;Donna Thal;Larry Fenson

  • Continuity in lexical and morphological development: a test of the critical mass hypothesis.

    Virginia A. Marchman;Elizabeth Bates

  • Speed of word recognition and vocabulary knowledge in infancy predict cognitive and language outcomes in later childhood

    Virginia A. Marchman;Anne Fernald

  • Wordbank: an open repository for developmental vocabulary data.

    Michael C Frank;Mika Braginsky;Daniel Yurovsky;Virginia A Marchman

  • Picking up speed in understanding: Speech processing efficiency and vocabulary growth across the 2nd year.

    Anne Fernald;Amy Perfors;Virginia A. Marchman

  • Does input influence uptake? Links between maternal talk, processing speed and vocabulary size in Spanish‐learning children

    Nereyda Hurtado;Virginia A. Marchman;Anne Fernald

  • MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories

    Virginia Marchman;Donna Thal;Larry Fenson

  • Looking while listening: Using eye movements to monitor spoken language comprehension by infants and young children.

    Anne Fernald;Renate Zangl;Ana Luz Portillo;Virginia A. Marchman

  • Early Lexical Development in Spanish-Speaking Infants and Toddlers.

    Donna Jackson-Maldonado;Donna Thal;Virginia Marchman;Elizabeth Bates

  • Individual Differences in Lexical Processing at 18 Months Predict Vocabulary Growth in Typically Developing and Late-Talking Toddlers.

    Anne Fernald;Virginia A. Marchman

  • How vocabulary size in two languages relates to efficiency in spoken word recognition by young Spanish-English bilinguals.

    Virginia A. Marchman;Anne Fernald;Nereyda Hurtado

  • Morphological productivity in children with normal language and SLI: a study of the English past tense.

    Virginia A. Marchman;Beverly Wulfeck;Susan Ellis Weismer

  • Early lexical development in children with focal brain injury

    Donna J. Thal;Virginia A. Marchman;Joan Stiles;Dorothy Aram

  • The language-specific nature of grammatical development: evidence from bilingual language learners.

    Virginia A. Marchman;Carmen Martínez-Sussmann;Philip S. Dale

  • Narrative Discourse in Children with Early Focal Brain Injury

    Judy Snitzer Reilly;Elizabeth A. Bates;Virginia A. Marchman

  • Concurrent validity of caregiver/parent report measures of language for children who are learning both English and Spanish.

    Virginia A. Marchman;Carmen Martínez-Sussmann

  • MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories, Second Edition

    Larry Fenson;Virginia A. Marchman;Donna J. Thal;Philip S. Dale

  • FAST-TRACK REPORT Speed of word recognition and vocabulary knowledge in infancy predict cognitive and language outcomes in later childhood

    Virginia A. Marchman;Anne Fernald

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne Fernald
Anne Fernald Stanford University
Heidi M. Feldman
Heidi M. Feldman Stanford University
Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego
Michael C. Frank
Michael C. Frank Stanford University
Kim Plunkett
Kim Plunkett University of Oxford
Beverly Wulfeck
Beverly Wulfeck San Diego State University
Philip S. Dale
Philip S. Dale University of New Mexico
Judy Reilly
Judy Reilly San Diego State University
J. Steven Reznick
J. Steven Reznick University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kevin Durkin
Kevin Durkin University of Strathclyde

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