Katherine White
Postdoctoral Fellow, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Contact Information
- Meliora 494
- Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- University of Rochester
- Rochester, NY 14627-0268
- (585) 275-7192
Education
2007 PhD, Cognitive Science, Brown University
1999 BA, Psychology and French, Cornell University
Research Overview
Infant speech perception; phonological development; lexical representation; spoken word recognition.
Recent Publications
- White, K. S. & Morgan, J. (2008). Sub-segmental detail in early lexical representations. Journal of Memory and Language, 59, 114-132.
- White, K. S., Peperkamp, S., Kirk, C. & Morgan, J. L. (2008). Rapid acquisition of phonological alternations by infants. Cognition, 107, 238-265.
- Singh, L., White, K. S. & Morgan, J. (2008). Building a phonological lexicon in the face of variable input: Effects of pitch and amplitude variation on early word recognition. Language Learning and Development, 4, 157-178.
- Soderstrom, M., White, K. S., Conwell, E. & Morgan, J. (2007). Early grammatical knowledge of function and content words. Infancy, 12, 1-29.
- White, K. S., Morgan, J. & Wier, L. (2005). When is a dar a car? Effects of mispronunciation and referential context on sound-meaning mappings. In A. Brugos, M. Clark-Cotton and S. Ha (Eds). Proceedings of the 29th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
- Singh, L., Morgan, J. & White, K. (2004). Preference and processing: The role of speech affect in early spoken word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 51(2), 173-189.
- Anderson, J., Morgan, J. & White, K. (2003). A Statistical Basis for Speech Sound Discrimination. Language and Speech, 46(2-3), 155-182.
- Foley, C., Lust, B., Battin, D., Koehne, A. & White, K. (2000). On the acquisition of an indefinite determiner: Evidence for unselective binding. In S. C. Howell, S. Fish and T. Keith-Lucas (Eds). Proceedings of the 24th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.