Presentations
2022
Maher, Z., Edwards, J., & Novick, J. (2022). They Was Giving Accurate Judgments: Speakers of Mainstream American English Show Partial Knowledge of Non-Mainstream Grammar. Poster presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. View Poster
Oppenheimer, K., Edwards, J., & Huang, Y.T. (2022). Individual differences in linguistic knowledge affect sentence comprehension in 5-year-olds. Poster presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development. View Poster
Thorburn, C., Salig, L., Oppenheimer, K., & Exton, E. (2022). Taking Linguistics to Zoom School: Engaging Children in Virtual Outreach. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. View Presentation
2021
Maher, Z. Mazzei, C., Terrell Shockley, C. & Edwards, J., & Thonesavanh, T. (2021). How a dialect-shifting curriculum shapes K-1 teachers’ attitudes toward language variation: A mixed-methods study. Paper presented at the 7th Annual Language, Linguistics, and Life Conference: Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Foreign/Second Language Education, Online, 23 April. View Slides
Maher, Z., M. Erskine, A. Byrd, and J. Edwards (2021). “Evaluating the influence of peers on the acquisition of mainstream forms by children who speak African American English.” Poster at the 4th Variation in Language Acquisition Conference. Rorschach, Switzerland, 24-26 June [virtual]. View Slides
2020
Blomquist, C., Newman, R., Huang, Y. & Edwards, J. (2020). Children with cochlear implants use semantic prediction to facilitate spoken word recognition. Talk presented at the 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Online, 5-8 November. View Slides
Blomquist, C., Newman, R., Huang, Y. & Edwards, J. (2020). Semantic prediction in sentence processing by children with cochlear implants. Poster presented at Perspectives on Language in Children with Hearing Loss at Macquarie University, Online, 14-15 May. View Slides
2019
Blomquist, C., Newman, R., & Edwards, J. (2019). Development of bottom-up and top-down competition in sentence processing. Poster presented at the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, 7-10 November. View Poster
Byrd, A., Edwards, J., Erskine, M., Johnson, A., Maher, Z., & Oppenheimer, K. (2019). Expanding your toolbox: Strategies to support linguistically diverse students. Seminar presented at the 2019 Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL, 21-23 November.
Byrd, A., Erskine, M., Maher, Z., Oppenheimer, K., & Edwards J. (2019). Expanding your toolbox: Strategies to support linguistically diverse students. Presentation at the 2019 Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, Orlando, FL, 21-23 November. View Slides
Byrd, A., Erskine, M.E., Maher, Z., Oppenheimer, K., & Edwards. (2019). Diagnosing disorder within dialect variation. Presentation given at the National Association of Speech-Language Hearing Association. Los Angeles, CA. 5 November
Cychosz, M., Edwards, J., Munson, B., & Johnson, K. (2019). Spectral and temporal measures of coarticulation in child speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146, EL516 .
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5139201. [PMCID: PMC6934419]
Cychosz, M., Munson, B., & Edwards, J. (2019). Familiarity and practice predict autonomy in children’s speech gestures. Paper presented at the workshop on modelling the development of speech planning in production, International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1-2 August, Sydney, Australia.
Erskine, M., Maher, Z., & Edwards, J. (2019). Dialect mismatch and sentence processing. Poster presented at the 2019 Symposium for Research on Child Language Disorders, 6-8 June, Madison, WI.
Johnson, A., Munson, B., Bentley, D., & Edwards, J. (2019). What can speech acquisition data tell us about cochlear implant device limitations? Analyzing accuracy, error patterns, and spectral features of children’s /t/ and /k/ productions. Poster presented at the 2019 Conference on Implantable Auditory Protheses, Lake Tahoe, CA, 14-19 July. View Poster
Johnson, A., Munson, B., Bentley, D., & Edwards, J. (2019). What can speech acquisition data tell us about cochlear implant device limitations? Analyzing accuracy, error patterns, and spectral features of children’s /t/ and /k/ productions. Poster presented at the 2019 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, 14-19 July, Lake Tahoe, CA.
Maher, Z. & Edwards, J. (2019). Changes in attitude toward variation in teachers of a code switching curriculum. NWAV48, 10-12 October, Eugene, OR.
Maher, Z. & Edwards, J. (2019). Non-linguistic inhibition predicts lexical inhibition in 6-7 year-old children. Paper presented at the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, 7-10 November.
2018
Cychosz, M., Erskine, M., & Edwards, J. (2018). The lexical advantage: Four-year-old children acquire words, not sounds. Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, 2-4 November.
Mahr, T. & Edwards, J. (2018). Development of word recognition in preschoolers. Poster presented at the 2018 Symposium for Research on Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, 7-9 June. View Poster
Pomper, R., Ellis Weismer, S., Saffran, J., & Edwards, J. (2018). Phonological representations of children with autism. Poster presented at the 2018 Symposium for Research on Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, 7-9 June. View Poster
2017
Edwards, J. (2017). When ears collide: Mismatch and phonological development. Invited talk presented at the Workshop on Abstraction, Diversity, and Speech Dynamics hosted by the Institute on of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat, Munich, German, 3-5 May. View Slides
Erskine, M., Mahr, T., & Edwards, J. (2017). Effect of dialect familiarity on lexical processing efficiency using the visual world paradigm: A preliminary study. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, 3-5 November. View Poster
Johnson, A., Reidy, P., Munson, B., Revai, D., & Edwards, J. (2017). Acquisition of the /t/-/k/ contrast in children with cochlear implants and children with normal hearing. Paper presented at the 2017 Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Los Angeles, CA, 9-11 November. View Slides
Johnson, A., Reidy, P., Munson, B., Revai, D., & Edwards, J. (2017). Production of the /t/-/k/ contrast in children with cochlear implants and children with normal hearing. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Meeting on Phonology. New York, NY, 15-17 September. View Poster
Mahr, T., & Edwards, J. (2017). Lexical processing of children with cochlear implants. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, 3-5 November. View Slides
Matthee, J., Venker, C., Ellis Weismer, S., Edwards, J., & Saffran, J. (2017). Perceptual salience affects familiar word processing in young typically developing toddlers. Poster presented at the 2017 Symposium for Research on Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, 8-10 June. View Poster
Reidy, P., Beckman, M. E., Edwards, J., & Munson, B. (2017). A data-driven approach for perceptually validated acoustic features for children’s sibilant fricative productions. Poster presented at Interspeech 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, 20-24 August. View Poster
Reidy, P., Johnson, A., Munson, B., Beckman, M. E., & Edwards, J. (2017). Learning acoustic features for English stops with graph-based dimensionality reduction. Poster presented at the 173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Boston, MA, 25-29 June. View Poster
2016
Hatch, R., Reidy, P., & Edwards, J. (2016) Vowel context and fricative production in children with cochlear implants. Poster presented at the 2016 Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Philadelphia, PA, 17-19 November. View Poster
Kapnoula, E., Edwards, J., & MacMurray, B. (2016). Phoneme categorization gradiency is advantageous for coping with ambiguities: Evidence from individual differences. Poster to be presented for the Second Workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 31 October-1 November. View Poster
Mahr, T., Venker, C., Premo, E., Ellis Weismer, S., Saffran, J., & Edwards, J. (2016). Preschoolers with autism treat nonwords and mispronunciations differently. Poster presented at the 2016 Symposium for Research on Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, 16-18 June. View Poster
McDonald, M., Edwards, J., & Kaushanskaya, M. (2016). Effects of cross-linguistic phonetic overlap on lexical co-activation in bilinguals. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA, 17-20 November. View Poster
Venker, C., Edwards, J., Saffran, J., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2016). Spoken word recognition is negatively associated with autism severity in young children with autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at the 2016 Symposium for Research on Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, 16-18 June. View Poster
Venker, C., Premo, E., Edwards, J., Saffran, J., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2016). Read the book vs. Find the book: Use of informative verbs in children with autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at the 2016 Symposium for Research on Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, 16-18 June. View Poster
2015
Cline, S., Johnson, A., Beckman, M. E., Edwards, J., & Munson, B. (2015). Child-level factors and acquisition of the /t/-/k/ contrast: Perception. Poster presented at the 2015 Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Denver, CO, 12-14 November. View Poster
Edwards, J. & Mahr, T. (2015). Speech perception and spoken word recognition in young children. Invited talk presented at the Fall 2015 Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Jacksonville, FL, 2-6 November. View Slides
Ellis Weismer, S., Haebig, E.K., Edwards, J., Saffran, J., & Venker, C. (2015). Lexical processing by toddlers with ASD. Poster presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research, Salt Lake City, UT, 13-16 May. View Poster
Erskine, M., Mahr, T., Beckman, M. E., Munson, B., & Edwards, J. (2015). A mediation model of the relationships among phonological awareness, vocabulary size, and speech perception in preschool children. Poster presented at the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, 11-13 June. View Poster
Johnson, A., Cline, S., Beckman, M. E., Munson, B., & Edwards, J. (2015). Child-level factors and acquisition of the /t/-/k/ contrast: Perception. Poster presented at the 2015 Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Denver, CO, 12-14 November. View Poster
Kong, E. & Edwards, J. (2015). Individual differences in L2 learners’ perceptual cue weighting patterns. Poster presented at the International Conference of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, Scotland, 10-14 August. View Paper
Law, F., Mahr, T., & Edwards, J. (2015). Exploring effects of expressive vocabulary size and maternal education on lexical processing by preschoolers using the visual world paradigm. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Child Language Disorders, Boston, MA, 13-15 November. View Slides
Nicholson, N., Reidy, P., Munson, B., Beckman, M. E., & Edwards, J. (2015). The acquisition of English lingual sibilant fricatives in very young children: Effects of age and vocabulary size on transcribed accuracy and acoustic differentiation. Paper to be presented at the International Conference of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, Scotland, 10-14 August. View Paper
Reidy, P., Beckman, M. E., Litovsky, R., & Edwards, J. (2015). The acquisition of English sibilant fricatives by children with bilateral cochlear implants. Poster presented at the International Conference of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, Scotland, 10-14 August. View Paper
Venker, C., Haebig, E., Saffran, J., Edwards, J., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2015). Assessing early language comprehension in young children with ASD: Comparing looking-while-listening and parent report. Poster presented at the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, 11-13 June. View Poster
Venker, C.E., Winn, M.B., Ellis Weismer, S., Saffran, J., & Edwards, J. (2015). Mutual exclusivity in young children with ASD: An eye-gaze study. Poster presented at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research, Salt Lake City, UT, 13-16 May. View Poster
2014
Beckman, M. E., Munson, B., & Edwards, J. (2014). Effects of speaker language and listener language on children’s stop place. Poster presented at the 14th Laboratory Phonology Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 25-27 July. View Poster
Braxton, R. & Edwards, J. (2014). Dialect density and lexical processing efficiency in preschool African American English-speaking children. Poster presented at the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, 12-14 June. View Poster
Erskine, M., Beckman, M.E. & Edwards, J. (2014). Evaluating an implicit measure of phonological awareness in preschool children. Poster presented at the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, 12-14 June. View Poster
Erskine, M., Beckman, M.E. & Edwards, J. (2014). Evaluating nonword repetition as an implicit phonological awareness task for preschool children. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL, 20-22 November.
Kapnoula, E., McMurray, B., Winn, M., Kong, E., & Edwards, J. (2014). Individual differences in phoneme categorization: dissociating gradiency from multiple cue use. Paper presented at the 19th Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference, Madison, WI, 12-14 September. View Poster
Mahr, T., Law, F., & Edwards, J. (2014). The influence of home language input and lexical processing efficiency on vocabulary size in 3-year-olds. Poster presented at the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, 12-14 June. View Poster
Mahr, T., McMillan, B., Saffran, J., & Edwards, J. (2014). Are infants sensitive to anticipatory coarticulation during word recognition? Paper presented at the 19th Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference, Madison, WI, 12-14 September. View Slides
2013
Edwards, J., Rosin, M., Gross, M., & Chen, J. (2013). Dialect mismatch and its implications for academic achievement. Seminar presented at the Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL, 14-16 November. View Poster
Evans, K., Munson, B., & Edwards, J. (2013). The influence of perceived race on ratings of children’s speech I: Accuracy ratings. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL, 14-16 November. View Poster
Mahr, T. & Edwards, J. (2013). Do orienting stimuli create additional task demands in the looking-while-listening paradigm? Poster presented at the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, 6-8 June. View Poster
Munson, B., Hogen, A., & Edwards, J. (2013). The influence of perceived race on ratings of children’s speech II: Word identification. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL, 14-16 November. View Poster
Schneeberg, A., Edwards, J., & Lee, C. (2013). The relationship between online lexical processing and expressive vocabulary in a diverse group of young children: An eye-tracking study. Poster presented at the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, 6-8 June. View Poster
Schneeberg, A., Edwards, J., & Lee, D. (2013). The influence of socioeconomic status on online lexical processing of preschool children. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL, 14-16 November. View Poster
Winn, M., Edwards, J., & Litovsky, R. (2013). The impact of spectral resolution on listening effort revealed by pupil dilation. Paper presented at the 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Franciso, CA, 2-6 December. View Slides
2012
Edwards, J., Rosin, M.M., Manning, B., Schneeberg, A., & Richmond, E. (2012). Increasing awareness of “school talk”: A focused intervention for pre-kindergarten children who speak a non-mainstream English dialect. Poster presented at the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, 7-9 June. View Poster
Law II, F., Chen, J., & Edwards, J. (2012). Examining individual differences using the mispronunciation paradigm. Poster presented at EyeTracKids: Eye Tracking Methodology in Child and Infant Research, Minneapolis, MN, 6 June. View Poster
Law II, F., Edwards, J. & Chen, J. (2012). Exploring lexical and phonological development in preschoolers: An eyetracking study. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA, 15-17 November. View Poster
Rosin, M. M., Edwards, J., Manning, B., Schneeberg, A., & Richmond, E. (2012). TALK: A prekindergarten curriculum supplement for non-mainstream English dialect users. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA, 15-17 November. View Poster
2011
Chung, H., Kong, E. J., Edwards, J., & Weismer, G. (2011). A cross-linguistic developmental study of vowel spectral movement patterns. Poster presented at the 161th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA, 23-27 May. View Poster
Beckman, M. E., Edwards, J., & Munson, B. (2011). Developing acoustic measures to evaluate the emergence of phonological contrast. Invited paper presented at the 161th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA, 23-27 May. View Slides
Beckman, M. E., Munson, B., & Edwards, J. (2011). Methodological issues in the analysis of phonotactic probability effects in nonwords. Paper presented at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, 17-21, July. View Paper
Edwards, J., Beckman, M.E., & Munson, B. (2011). How a cross-linguistic study of phonological development can inform clinical practice. Invited talk presented at the Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Diego, CA, 17-19 November. View Slides
Kong, E. J., & Edwards, J. (2011). Gradient perception of laryngeal contrast of stops in English and Korean: Eye-tracking evidence. Poster presented at the 161th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA, 23-27 May. View Poster
Kong, E. J., & Edwards, J. (2011). Individual differences in speech perception: evidence from visual analogue scaling and eye-tracking. Paper presented at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, 17-21, July. View Paper
Li, F., Beckman, M. E., & Edwards, J. (2011). Similarities and differences in the development of sounds “s” and “sh” in English and Japanese. Poster presented at the 2011 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, 31 March – 2 April. View Poster
Monnin, J., Loevenbruck, H., Beckman, M. E., & Edwards, J. (2011). Vowel context and frequency effects in dorsal and coronal acquisition in Drehu and French. Poster presented at the 9th International Seminar on Speech Production, Montreal, 20-23 June. View Poster
Syrika, A., Kong, E. J., & Edwards, J. (2011). Development of coarticulation in Greek consonant clusters: Psychoacoustic data. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Diego, CA, 17-19 November. View Poster
Todd, A. Edwards, J., & Litovsky, R. (2011). Influence of phonotactic probability on production accuracy of children with cochlear implants. Poster presented at the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, 9-11, June. View Poster
Todd, A. Edwards, J., & Litovsky, R. (2011). The influence of phonotactic probability on repetition accuracy of nonwords by children with cochlear implants. Poster presented at the Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Pacific Grove, CA, 24-29, July. View Poster
2010
Arbisi-Kelm, T., Edwards, J., Munson, B., & Kong, E.-J. (2010) Cross-linguistic perception of velar and alveolar obstruents: A perceptual and psychoacoustic study. Poster presentation at the 159th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, April 19-23, Baltimore, MD. View Poster
Chung, H., Edwards, J., Weismer, G., Kong, E., Munson, B., & Beckman, M. E. (2010). Korean listeners’ sensitivity to language-specific phonetic details of children and adults’ vowel production in five different languages. Poster presentation at the 159th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 19-23 April, Baltimore, MD. View Poster
Edwards, J., Gross, M., Macdonald, M., Brown, M., & Seidenberg, M. (2010). Code-switching from non-mainstream to mainstream English: Categorization, comprehension, and executive functioning. Poster presentation at the Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 18-20 November, Philadelphia, PA. View Poster
Edwards, J., Beckman, M.E., Munson, B., Kong, E., & Li, F. (2010). Phonological development: The acquisition of a (really) complex system. Talk presented at the Annual Conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 18-20 November, Philadelphia, PA. View Slides
Gross, M., Edwards, J., Macdonald, M., Brown, M., & Seidenberg, M. (2010). Examining comprehension of Standard American English by African American English-speaking children. Poster presentation at the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders. June 3-5, Madison, WI. View Poster
Johnson, J.M., Munson, B., & Edwards, J. (2010). The role of clinical experience in listening for phonetic detail in children’s speech. Poster presentation at the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders. June 3-5, Madison, WI. View Poster
Julien, H., Munson, B., Edwards, J., Beckman, M. E., & Holliday, J. (2010). Modifying speech to children based on perceived developmental level: An acoustic study of adult fricatives’. Poster presented at the 159th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 19-23 April, Baltimore, MD. View Poster
Kong, E., Beckman, M. E., & Edwards, J. (2010). Why are Korean tense stops mastered early? Evidence from production and perception. Poster presented at the 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 19-23 April, Baltimore, MD. View Poster
Munson, B., Menard, L., Beckman, M. E., Edwards, J., & Chung, H. (2010). Sensorimotor maps and vowel development in English, Greek, and Korean: A cross-linguistic perceptual categorization study. Poster presentation at the 159th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, April 19-23, Baltimore, MD. View Poster
Syrika, A., Edwards, J., Fourakis, M., Kong, E.-J., Munson, B., & Beckman, M. E. (2010). Why [spa] and not [psa]? On the perceptual salience of initial /s/-stop and stop-/s/ sequences. Poster presentation at the 159th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 19-23 April, Baltimore, MD. View Poster
Todd, A. E., Edwards, J., Litovsky, R. Y., & Li, F. (2010). Production of sibilant fricatives by children with cochlear implants. Poster presented at the 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 19-23 April, Baltimore, MD. View Poster