Our Research
We explore the perceptual and cognitive basis of language learning.
SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL ARTICLES
- Cheng, A., McClay, E., & Yeung, H. H. (In press). An exploration of voice quality in mothers speaking Canadian English to infants. Language Learning and Development. (pdf)
- Choi, D., Yeung, H. H., Werker, J. F. (2023). Sensorimotor foundations of speech perception in infancy. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(8), 773-784. (pdf)
- Deng, X., Farris-Trimble, A., & Yeung, H. H. (2023). Contextual effects on spoken word processing: An eye-tracking study of the time course of tone and vowel activation in Mandarin. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49(7), 1145. (pdf)
- Zamuner, T. S., Rabideau, T., McDonald, M., & Yeung, H. H. (2023). Developmental change in children’s speech processing of auditory and visual cues: An eye-tracking study. Journal of Child Language, 50(1), 27-51. (pdf)
- McClay, E. K., Cebioglu, S., Broesch, T., & Yeung, H. H. (2022). Rethinking the phonetics of baby‐talk: Differences across Canada and Vanuatu in the articulation of mothers' speech to infants. Developmental Science, 25(2), e13180. (pdf)
- Yeung, H. H. & Scott, M. (2021). Postural control of the vocal tract affects auditory speech perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(5), 983-995. (pdf)
- Alderete, J., Chan, Q., & Yeung, H. H. (2019). Tone slips in Cantonese: Evidence for early phonological encoding. Cognition, 191, 103952. (pdf)
- Berdasco-Muñoz, E., Nazzi, T., & Yeung, H. H. (2019). Visual scanning of a talking face in preterm and full-term infants. Developmental Psychology, 55(7), 1353. (pdf)
- Hoareau, M., Yeung, H. H., & Nazzi, T. (2019). Infants’ statistical word segmentation in an artificial language is linked to both parental speech input and reported production abilities. Developmental Science, 22(4), e12803. (pdf)
- Yeung, H. H., Bhatara, A., & Nazzi, T. (2018). Learning a phonological contrast modulates the auditory grouping of rhythm. Cognitive Science, 42(6), 2000-2020. (pdf)
- Götz, A., Yeung, H. H., Krasotkina, A., Schwarzer, G., & Höhle, B. (2018). Perceptual reorganization of lexical tones: Effects of age and experimental procedure. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(477), 1-16. (pdf)
- Zamuner, T., Yeung, H. H., & Ducos, M. (2017). The many facets of speech production and its complex effects on phonological processing. British Journal of Psychology, 108, 37-39. [Commentary] (pdf)
- Yeung, H. H., Denison, S., & Johnson, S. P. (2016). Infants' looking to surprising events: When eye-tracking reveals more than looking time. PLoS ONE, 11(12), e0164277 (pdf)
- Streri, A., Coulon, M., Marie, J., & Yeung, H. H. (2016). Developmental change in infants’ detection of visual faces that match auditory vowels. Infancy, 21(2), 177-198. (pdf)
- Bhatara, A., Yeung, H. H., & Nazzi, T. (2015). Foreign language learning in French speakers is associated with rhythm perception but not with melody perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(2), 277-282. (pdf)
- Imai, M., Miyazaki, M., Yeung, H. H., Hidaka, S., Kantartzis, K., Okada, H., & Kita, S. (2015). Sound symbolism facilitates word learning in 14-month-olds. PLoS ONE,10, e0116494. (pdf)
- Guellaï, B., Streri, A., & Yeung, H. H. (2014). The development of sensorimotor influences in the audiovisual speech domain: Some critical questions. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(812), 1-7. (pdf)
- Yeung, H. H., Chen, L. M., & Werker, J. F. (2014). Referential labeling can facilitate phonetic learning in infancy. Child Development, 85(3), 1036-1049. (pdf)
- Yeung, H. H., & Nazzi, T. (2014). Object labeling influences infant phonetic learning and generalization. Cognition, 132(2), 151–163. (pdf)
- Scott, M., Yeung, H. H., Gick, B. W., & Werker, J. F. (2013). Inner speech captures the perception of external speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133(4), EL286–EL292. (pdf)
- Yeung, H. H., Chen, K. H., & Werker, J. F. (2013). When does native language input reorganize phonetic perception? The precocious case of lexical tone. Journal of Memory and Language, 68(2), 123-139. (pdf)
- Yeung, H. H., & Werker, J. F. (2013). Lip movements affect infant audiovisual speech perception. Psychological Science, 24(5), 603-612. (pdf)
- Werker, J. F., Yeung, H. H., & Yoshida, K. A. (2012). How do infants become experts at native-speech perception? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21(4), 221–226. (pdf)
- Yeung, H. H., & Werker, J. F. (2009). Learning words’ sounds before learning how words sound: 9-month-olds use distinct objects as cues to categorize speech information. Cognition, 113(2), 234-243. (pdf)
- Werker, J. F., & Yeung, H. H. (2005). Infant speech perception bootstraps word learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(11), 519-527. (pdf)
Book Chapters
- Navarra, J., Yeung, H. H., Werker, J. F., & Soto-Faraco, S. (2012). Multisensory interactions in speech perception. In B. Stein & L. Bernstein (Eds.) The New Handbook of Multisensory Processes (p. 435-452). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Community Resources
- Language Learning and Development Lab. (2019). Learning the sounds of Skwxwú7mesh sníchim [Primer]. Simon Fraser University. (pdf)