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Research
Latest papers
Infants' attraction to infant vocalizations - A catalyst for infant development.
Infant behavior & development · 2025 · first author
Facial affect and arousal as a complement to gaze measures in infant speech sound perception studies.
Frontiers in neural circuits · 2025
A corpus-assisted discourse study of parental concerns regarding multilingual child-rearing.
Journal of multilingual and multicultural development · 2024
Latest funding
- $70,183
How does early affective communication shape infant development?
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $54,000
The Development of Phonetic Perception
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $82,495
An infant-friendly wearable ultrasound-based system to map and analyze tongue movements
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
30 publications.
Infants' attraction to infant vocalizations - A catalyst for infant development.
Polka L, Alonso-Arteche MF, Phillips NK, Moradi S, Ménard L, Masapollo M
Facial affect and arousal as a complement to gaze measures in infant speech sound perception studies.
Tsuji S, Alonso F, Hagihara H, Kimura N, Polka L, Lovčević I
A corpus-assisted discourse study of parental concerns regarding multilingual child-rearing.
Quirk E, Brouillard M, Ahooja A, Ballinger S, Polka L, Byers-Heinlein K, Kircher R
Quebec-based parents' concerns regarding their children's multilingual development.
Quirk E, Brouillard M, Ahooja A, Ballinger S, Polka L, Byers-Heinlein K, Kircher R
Mixed-Language Input and Infant Volubility: Friend or Foe?
Ruan Y, Byers-Heinlein K, Orena AJ, Polka L
Comparing Different Measures of Bilingual Input Derived From Naturalistic Daylong Recordings.
Ruan Y, Orena AJ, Polka L
Quebec-based Parents' Attitudes Towards Childhood Multilingualism: Evaluative Dimensions and Potential Predictors.
Kircher R, Quirk E, Brouillard M, Ahooja A, Ballinger S, Polka L, Byers-Heinlein K
Code-switching in parents' everyday speech to bilingual infants.
Kremin LV, Alves J, Orena AJ, Polka L, Byers-Heinlein K
Setting the Stage for Speech Production: Infants Prefer Listening to Speech Sounds With Infant Vocal Resonances.
Polka L, Masapollo M, Ménard L
Neurophysiological Correlates of Asymmetries in Vowel Perception: An English-French Cross-Linguistic Event-Related Potential Study.
Polka L, Molnar M, Zhao TC, Masapollo M
How does early affective communication shape infant development?
Principal investigators: Polka, Linda
Keywords: affectve communication; infant development; infant-directed speech; facial expressions
The Development of Phonetic Perception
Principal investigators: Polka, Linda
Keywords: infant speech perception; vowel perception; vocal communication; vowel perception; phonetics; focal vowel; vowel production; acoustics phonetics
An infant-friendly wearable ultrasound-based system to map and analyze tongue movements
Principal investigators: Polka, Linda
A platform for investigating affective communication in infants
Principal investigators: Polka, Linda
Keywords: affect; infant communication; facial expressions; emotion; facial movement analysis; infant-directed speech; facial affect coding; parent-infant interaction
The Development of Phonetic Perception
Principal investigators: Polka, Linda
Speech processing in bilinguals
Principal investigators: Polka, Linda
Keywords: spoken language acquisition; language experince; bilingualism; infant speech perception; social milieu; talker recognition; word segmentation
Integrated multi-measure speech research station
Principal investigators: Polka, Linda
The development of phonetic perception
Principal investigators: Polka, Linda
Beginnings in language acquisition: the infant's perceptual adaptation to lingusitc diversity
Principal investigators: Polka, Linda
Keywords: speech processing; infancy; word segmentation; native language recognition; bilingualism; speech perception; linguistic experience; cross-language
Developmental patterns in vowel perception
Principal investigators: Polka, Linda
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Linda Polka and Krista Byers-Heinlein: 6 shared papers
- Linda Polka and Susan Ballinger: 3 shared papers
- Krista Byers-Heinlein and Susan Ballinger: 3 shared papers
- Monika Molnar and Linda Polka: 1 shared paper
- Susan Rvachew and Linda Polka: 1 shared paper
- Linda Polka and Fred Genesee: 1 shared paper
- Psychology
- Other Library and Information Science
- Bilingual Education, Second Language Education
- Speech Pathology
- Educational Psychology
- Other
Co-authors at McGill University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Krista Byers-Heinlein
Other Library and Information Science
6 shared papers, latest 2024
Susan Ballinger
Bilingual Education, Second Language Education
3 shared papers, latest 2024
Fred Genesee
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2006
Monika Molnar
Speech Pathology
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Susan Rvachew
Educational Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2006
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