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Karen Pollock
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Latest papers
The Effect of Language Background and Grade Level on Fricative Production of Children Learning Mandarin in a Chinese-English Bilingual Program.
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025
Acquisition of Mandarin tones by Canadian first graders: Effect of prior exposure to tonal and non-tonal languages.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024 · senior author
Latest funding
- $151,495
Speech production in children enrolled in second language education programs
SSHRC · 2017 · Co-investigator
- $28,153
Child language acquisition research in Alberta: weaving an integrative and inclusive network
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
2 publications.
The Effect of Language Background and Grade Level on Fricative Production of Children Learning Mandarin in a Chinese-English Bilingual Program.
Yang L, Pollock K, Lin Y, Tucker BV, Li F
Acquisition of Mandarin tones by Canadian first graders: Effect of prior exposure to tonal and non-tonal languages.
Meckelborg A, Luu M, Nguyen T, Lin Y, Li F, Pollock K
Speech production in children enrolled in second language education programs
Principal investigators: Li, Fangfang
Keywords: speech production development; second language acquisition; immersion education
Child language acquisition research in Alberta: weaving an integrative and inclusive network
Principal investigators: Li, Fangfang
Keywords: child language acquisition; community involvment; second language learning and teaching
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Fangfang Li and Youran Lin: 4 shared papers
- Fangfang Li and Karen Pollock: 2 shared papers
- Karen Pollock and Youran Lin: 2 shared papers
- Fangfang Li and Benjamin Tucker: 1 shared paper
- Benjamin Tucker and Karen Pollock: 1 shared paper
- Benjamin Tucker and Youran Lin: 1 shared paper
- Communication Sciences & Disorders
- Psychology Department
- Phonetics
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