James L. Morgan

Professor

Department of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences

Brown University

Bibliography

a. Books

Morgan, J. L. (1986). From simple input to complex grammar . Cambridge , Mass. : MIT Press/Bradford Books.

Morgan, J. L. & Demuth, K. D. (eds.) (1996). Signal to syntax. Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

b. Chapters

Morgan, J. L. (1987). Commentary on Resnick's The Development of Mathematical Intuition. In M. A. Perlmutter (Ed.), Minnesota Symposium on Child Development, Volume 19. New York : Academic Press.

Morgan, J. L. & Demuth, K. (1996). Signal to syntax: An overview. In J. L. Morgan & K. Demuth (Eds.), Signal to syntax (pp. 1-22). Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Morgan, J. L., Allopenna, P., & Shi, R. (1996). Perceptual bases of rudimentary grammatical categories: Toward a broader vision of bootstrapping. In J. L. Morgan & K. Demuth (Eds.), Signal to syntax (pp. 263-282). Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Bortfeld, H., & Morgan, J. L. (1998). Many sources of stress in infant-directed speech. In D. Duez et al. (Eds.), Les Sons de la Parole Spontanée (pp. 123-126). La Baume-les-Aix: European Scientific Communication Association.

Bortfeld, H., & Morgan, J. L. (1999). Disentangling multiple sources of stress in infant-directed speech. In A. Greenhill, H. Littlefield & C. Tano (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (103-111). Somerville , MA : Cascadilla Press.

Bortfeld, H., & Morgan, J. L. (1999). Interaction of varieties of stress in infant-directed speech, International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 14.

Bortfeld, H., & Morgan, J. L. (2000). The influence of focusing stress on infants' recognition of words in fluent speech. In S. C. Howell, S. A. Fish & T. Keith-Lucas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (151-163). Somerville , MA : Cascadilla Press.

Singh, L., Bortfeld, H., & Morgan, J. L. (2002). Effects of variability on infant word recognition. In B. Skarabela, S. Fish, & A. H-J. Do (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (608-619). Somerville , MA : Cascadilla Press.

Bortfeld, H., Rathbun, K., Morgan, J. L., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2003). What's in a name? Highly familiar items anchor infants' segmentation of fluent speech. In B. Beachley, A. Brown, & F. Conlin (Eds.) Proceedings of the 27th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 162-172). Somerville , MA : Cascadilla Press.

White, K. S., Morgan, J. L., & Wier, L. (2005). When is a dar a car? Effects of mispronunciation and referential context on sound-meaning mappings. In Brugos, A., Clark-Cotton, R., & Ha, S. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 651-662). Somerville , MA : Cascadilla Press.

Blossom, M., & Morgan, J. L. (2006). Does the face say what the mouth says? A study of infants' sensitivity to visual prosody. In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia, & C. Zaller (Eds.) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 24-35). Somerville , MA : Cascadilla Press.

Conwell, E., & Morgan, J. L. (2007). Resolving grammatical category ambiguity in acquisition. In H. Caunt-Nulton, S. Kulatilake, & I. Woo (eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (117-128). Somerville , MA : Cascadilla Press.

Tenenbaum, E., & Morgan, J. L. (2007). Racing to segment? Top-down versus bottom-up in infant word recognition. In H. Caunt-Nulton, S. Kulatilake, & I. Woo (eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 620-631). Somerville , MA : Cascadilla Press.

Soderstrom, M., & Morgan, J. L. (2008) Twenty-two month olds detect verb-noun exchanges in fluent speech: Evidence for category preferences for familiar content words. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development . Somerville , MA : Cascadilla Press

c. Refereed Journal Articles

Morgan, J. L. & Newport, E. L. (1981) The role of constituent structure in the induction of an artificial language. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior , 20 , 67-85.

Morgan, J. L. (1984) Some concepts and consequences of Degree 1 learnability. Papers and Reports in Child Language Development , 23 , 93-106.

Morgan, J. L., Meier, R. P., & Newport , E. L. (1987). Structural packaging in the input to language learning: Contributions of prosodic and morphological marking of phrases to the acquisition of language. Cognitive Psychology , 19 , 498-550.

Morgan, J. L., Meier, R. P., & Newport , E. L. (1989). Facilitating the acquisition of syntax with transformational cues to phrase structure. Journal of Memory and Language , 28 , 360-374.

Morgan, J. L. (1989). Learnability considerations and the nature of trigger experiences in language acquisition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences , 12 , 352-353.

Morgan, J. L. & Travis, L. L. (1989). Limits on negative information in language input. Journal of Child Language , 16 , 531-552.

Morgan, J. L. (1990). Input, innateness, and induction in language acquisition. Developmental Psychobiology , 23 , 661-678.

Siegel, G., Cooper, M., Morgan, J. L., & Sarshad, R. (1990). Imitation of intonation by infants. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research , 33 , 1-15.

Goodsitt, J. V., Morgan, J. L., & Kuhl, P. (1993). Perceptual strategies in prelingual speech segmentation. Journal of Child Language , 20 , 229-252.

Morgan, J. L. (1994). Converging measures of speech segmentation in preverbal infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 17 , 389-403.

Morgan, J. L., Bonamo, K. & Travis, L. L. (1995). Negative evidence on negative evidence. Developmental Psychology , 31 , 180-197.

Morgan, J. L. & Saffran, J. R. (1995). Emerging integration of sequential and suprasegmental information in preverbal speech segmentation. Child Development , 66 , 911-936

Morgan, J. L. (1996). A rhythmic bias in preverbal speech segmentation. Journal of Memory and Language , 35 , 666-688.

Morgan, J. L. (1996). Prosody and the roots of parsing. Language & Cognitive Processes , 11 , 69-106

Morgan, J. L. (1996). Finding relations between input and outcome in language acquisition. Developmental Psychology , 32 , 556-559.

Shi, R., Morgan, J. L., & Allopenna, P. (1998). Phonological and acoustic bases for early grammatical category assignment: A cross-linguistic perspective. Journal of Child Language , 25, 169-201.

Shi, R., Werker, J., & Morgan, J. L. (1999). Young infants' sensitivity to lexical and grammatical words. Cognition , 72, B11-B21.

Aslin, R. N., Werker, J. F., & Morgan, J. L. (2002). Innate phonetic boundaries revisited. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 112, 1257-1260.

Singh, L., Morgan, J. L., & Best, C. (2002). Infants' listening preferences: Baby talk or happy talk? Infancy , 3, 365-394.

Anderson, J., Morgan, J. L., & White, K. S. (2003). A statistical basis for speech sound discrimination. Language and Speech , 46, 155-182 .

Christophe, A., Gout, A., Peperkamp, S., & Morgan, J. L. (2003). Discovering words in the continuous speech stream: The role of prosody. Journal of Phonetics , 31, 585-598.

Gout, A., Christophe, A., & Morgan, J. L. (2004). Phonological phrase boundaries constrain lexical access II. Infant data. Journal of Memory and Language , 51, 548-567.

Singh, L., Morgan, J. L., & White, K. S. (2004). Preference and processing: The role of speech affect in early spoken word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language , 51, 173-189

Bortfeld, H., Morgan, J. L., Golinkoff, R. M., & Rathbun, K. (2005). Mommy and me: Familiar names help launch babies into speech stream segmentation. Psychological Science , 16, 298-307.

Soderstrom, M., & Morgan, J. L. (2007) Twenty-two-month-olds discriminate fluent from disfluent adult-directed speech. Developmental Science, 10 , 641-653.

Soderstrom, M., White, K. S., Conwell, E. & Morgan, J. L. (2007) Receptive grammatical knowledge of familiar content words and inflection in 16-month-olds. Infancy, 12 , 1-29.

Singh, L., White, K. & Morgan, J. (2008). Building a lexicon in the face of variable input: Effects of pitch and amplitude variation on early word recognition. Language Learning and Development . 4, 157-178

White, K., Peperkamp, S. & Morgan, J. (2008). Rapid acquisition of phonological alternations by infants. Cognition , 107, 238- 265.

Morgan, J. L. (in press) Words in the babes: The development of lexical representions. Current Directions in Psychological Science .

Soderstrom, M., Blossom, M., Foygel, I. , & Morgan, J. L. (in press) Acoustical cues and grammatical units in speech to two preverbal infants. Journal of Child Language .

White, K. S., & Morgan, J. L. (in press). Subsegmental detail in infants' early lexical representations. Journal of Memory and Language.

d. Unrefereed Journal Articles

Morgan, J. L. (1996). Knowing isn't saying: Early receptive language abilities. Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter , 12 (11), 1-3.

e. Book Reviews

Morgan, J. L. (1997). Antecedents of language: Review of ‘Communication development during infancy'. Early Human Development , 49 , 103-107.

Morgan, J. L. (1999). Titchener's stimulus error and the study of language acquisition: Review of ‘The discovery of spoken language'. Human Development .

Morgan, J. L. (in press) The beginning of the word: Review of “Weaving a lexicon”. Language .

f. Invited Lectures

Morgan, J. L. Perceptual bases for rudimentary grammatical categories . Department of Psychology, Yale University , February, 1992.

Morgan, J. L. Prosody and syntax: Links in language input . New York Child Language Group, City University of New York , May, 1992.

Morgan, J. L. Rhythm and early speech segmentation . Department of Psychology, University of Rochester , April, 1993.

Morgan, J. L. Infant's use of rhythm in early speech segmentation . Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo , May, 1993.

Morgan, J. L. Phonological bootstrapping in early acquisition: The importance of starting small vs. starting 'sharp' Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Berlin, September, 1996.

Morgan, J. L. Naissance du lexique, I-III . Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, CNRS-EHESS, Paris , June 1999.

Morgan, J. L. Beginning with words . Laboratoire Parole et Language, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence , July, 1999.

Morgan, J. L. The problem of word identification . Department of Psychology, Stanford University , April, 2000.

Morgan, J. L. A model of developing word identification Department of Languages and Linguistics, University of Barcelona , Barcelona , July, 2000.

Morgan, J. L. A developmental model of word recognition . Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen , The Netherlands , February, 2001.

Morgan, J. L. Space, time, and infant word recognition: A developmental model . Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig , Germany , March, 2001.

Morgan, J. L. Space, time, and infant word recognition: A developmental model , Department of Psychology, University of Barcelona , April, 2001.

Morgan, J. L. A developmental model of word recognition , Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University College of London, June, 2001.

Morgan, J. L. A developmental model of word recognition . Department of Psychology, Oxford University , June, 2001.

Morgan, J. L. Phonology by ear: A tutorial on infant speech perception . Workshop on Early Phonological Acquisition, Carry-le-Rouet , France , October, 2001.

Morgan, J. L. Word recognition and phonetic structure acquisition: Some possible relations . Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (memorial for Peter Jusczyk). Pittsburgh , May, 2002.

Morgan, J. L. Behavioral measures of infant spoken word recognition. McDonnell Foundation workshop on Methods for Assessing Cognitive Development in Human Infants. Chatham , MA , May, 2002.

Morgan, J. L. Steps to spoken word recognition . Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester , March, 2003.

Morgan, J. L. Bootstrapping spoken word recognition . Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Kognitive Studien, University of Potsdam , June, 2003.

Morgan, J. L. The development of spoken word recognition . Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut , November, 2007.

Morgan, J. L. Roots of spoken word recognition . Center for Cognitive Science, UQAM-McGill, February, 2008.

Morgan, J. L. The development of spoken word recognition . Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University , March, 2008.

g. Papers Read

Mulford, R. & Morgan, J. L. The role of ‘local cues' in assigning gender to new nouns in Icelandic . Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1983.

Meier, R., Morgan, J. L., & Newport , E. L. Structural packaging in the input to language learning . Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Minneapolis , Minnesota , 1983.

Morgan, J. L. A Degree 1 learnability result: Assumptions, advantages, and implications . Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Stanford Child Language Research Forum, Stanford California , 1984.

Morgan, J. L. Prosodic encoding of syntactic information in speech to young children . Presentation at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Toronto , 1985.

Morgan, J. L., & Travis, L. L. Limits on negative information in language input . Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Stanford Child Language Research Forum, Stanford , California , April, 1987.

Morgan, J. L. Rich language input and preprogramming for language acquisition . Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore , 1987.

Meier, R. P., Morgan, J. L., & Newport , E. L. Distributional cues to phrase structure facilitate the acquisition of syntax . Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Stanford Child Language Research Forum, Stanford , California , April, 1988.

Goodsitt, J. V., Morgan, J. L., & Kuhl, P. K. Contextual organization as a determinant of complexity in infant speech processing . Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas City , 1989.

Meier, R. P., Morgan, J. L., & Newport, E. L. Investigating the input to language acquisition with miniature language methodology . Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas City , 1989.

Morgan, J. L., Bonamo, K., & Travis, L. L. Negative evidence: The missing link . Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle , 1991.

Morgan, J. L. The empirical status of the no-negative-evidence assumption . Linguistic Society of America , Philadelphia , January 1992.

Morgan, J. L. Language input and infant speech segmentation: Prospects for perceptual bootstrapping in acquisition . International Conference on Infant Studies, Miami , May, 1992.

Morgan, J. L. Form class distinctions in early language input . International Conference on Infant Studies, Miami , May, 1992.

Morgan, J. L. & Saffran, J. R. Integration of segmental and suprasegmental information in early speech segmentation . Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, October, 1992.

Morgan, J. L. Perceptual bases of grammatical categories . Paper presented at the Signal to Syntax conference, Brown University , February, 1993.

Morgan, J. L., Swingley, D., & Mitarai, K. Infants listen longer to speech with extraneous noises inserted at clause boundaries . Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans , 1993.

Shi, R., Morgan, J. L., & Allopenna, P. Mandarin input characteristics and grammatical category assignment. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, January, 1994.

Shi, R., Morgan, J. L., & Allopenna, P. A cross-linguistic perspective on phonological and acoustic bases of early grammatical category assignment . Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis , 1995.

Morgan, J. L. Infants' recognition of familiar words in fluent speech: A monitoring technique. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis , 1995.

Morgan, J. L. Extracting sentence structure from infant-directed speech . Paper presented at the International Conference on Infants Studies, Providence , April, 1996.

Morgan, J. L. Starting small or starting sharp: Which is important? Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, November, 1996.

Shi, R., Werker, J., & Morgan, J. L. Young infants' perception of lexical and functional categories. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infants Studies, Atlanta , April, 1998.

Morgan, J. L. Early recognition of morphophonological alternations . Paper presented at the International Conference on Infants Studies, Atlanta , April, 1998.

Bortfeld, H. & Morgan, J. L. Disentangling multiple sources of stress in infant-directed speech . Paper presented at Sound Patterns of Spontaneous Speech: Production and Perception. Aix-en-Provence , October, 1998.

Morgan, J. L. Sensitivity to phonotactic probabilities in preverbal speech segmentation . Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, November, 1998.

Bortfeld, H. & Morgan, J. L. Multiple sources of stress in infant-directed speech . Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, November, 1998.

Bortfeld, H. & Morgan, J. L. The given-new contract in infant-directed speech . Paper presented at the conference on The Ecology of Language Acquisition, Amsterdam , January, 1999.

Bortfeld, H., & Morgan, J. L. Effects of varieties of stress on preverbal word segmentation . International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco , August, 1999.

Bortfeld, H., & Morgan, J. L. Focusing stress influences infants' recognition of words in fluent speech . 40th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles , CA , November, 1999.

Singh, L. & Morgan, J. L. Infants' listening preference: Baby talk or happy talk? Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, November, 1999.

Bortfeld, H., & Morgan, J. L. The influence of focusing stress on infants' recognition of words in fluent speech . Paper presented at the International Conference on Infants Studies, Brighton , England , August, 2000.

Morgan, J. L. Making inferences about early lexical representations . Paper presented at the International Conference on Infants Studies, Brighton , England , August, 2000.

Morgan, J. L. What artificial grammar learning tells us about language acquisition . Discussion presented at the International Conference on Infants Studies, Brighton , England , August, 2000.

Singh, L., & Morgan, J. L. Infants' listening preference: babytalk or happy talk? Paper presented at the International Conference on Infants Studies, Brighton , England , August, 2000.

Singh, L., Bortfeld, H., Rathbun, K., & Morgan, J. L. Effects of speeded and slowed speech on infant word recognition . Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, November, 2000.

Singh, L., Bortfeld, H., Rathbun, K., & Morgan, J. L. Influences of processing time on infant word recognition . Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis , April, 2001.

Singh, L., Bortfeld, H., & Morgan, J. L. Evidence for episodic encoding in infant word recognition . Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, November, 2001.

Morgan, J. L., Singh, L., Bortfeld, H., Rathbun, K., & White, K. Effects of speech rate and sentence position on infant word recognition . Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, November, 2001

Bortfeld, H., Rathbun, K., Golinkoff, R., Morgan, J. L., & Sootsman, J. Name recognition and speech segmentation . Paper presented at the International Conference on Infants Studies, Toronto , April, 2002.

Morgan, J. L., Singh, L., Bortfeld, H. Rathbun, K., White, K., & Anderson, J. L. Infant word recognition: Sentence position and processing time . Paper presented at the International Conference on Infants Studies, Toronto , April, 2002.

Singh, L., & Morgan, J. L. Sources of fragility in early word recognition: Differential effects of affect, amplitude, and absolute pitch. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infants Studies, Toronto , April, 2002.

White, K., & Morgan, J. L. The effects of phonological variation in infant word recognition. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infants Studies, Toronto , April, 2002.

Morgan, J. L. Becoming a fluent listener (may take more time than we think) . Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Madison , WI , July, 2002.

Rathbun, K., Bortfeld, H., Morgan, J. L., & Golinkoff, R. What's in a name: Using highly familiar items to aid segmentation . Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, November, 2002.

Soderstrom, M., Seidl, A., Kemler Nelson, D.G., & Morgan, J. Exploring infants' sensitivity to the prosodic contours of phrases . BOOT-LA workshop, University of Indiana , April, 2003.

Morgan, J. L., White, K. S., Rathbun, K., & Christophe, A. What we say to infants … what infants hear . Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa , May, 2003.

Rathbun, K., Bortfeld, H., & Morgan, J. L. What's in a frame? Using highly familiar items to aid segmentation . Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa , May, 2003.

Morgan, J. L., White, K. S., Kirk, C., Peperkamp, S., & Dupoux, E. Distributional and statistical bases of allophonic groupings . Paper presented at the International Conference on Infants Studies, Chicago , April, 2004.

Soderstrom, M., Foygel, I. , & Morgan, J. L. Prosodic sensitivity: How might it be used? Paper presented at the International Conference on Infants Studies, Chicago , April, 2004 .

White, K. S, Kirk, C., Morgan, J. L., & Peperkamp, S. (2005, April). Distributional cues to allophonic groupings. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta , May.

White, K. S., & Morgan, J. L. (2005, April). Is There a Mispronunciation Bias in Early Word Learning? Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta , May.

Soderstrom, M., White, K., Conwell, E. & Morgan, J. (2005, July) Nouns, verbs, and babies: Infants' knowledge of the grammatical properties of content words (Paper presented at the Xth (2005) International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, GER)

White, K & Morgan, J. (2005, July) Subsegmental phonology in infants' lexical representations (Paper presented at the Xth (2005) International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, GER)

White, K., Morgan, J. Peperkamp, S. & Kirk, C.(2005, July) Acquiring phonological alternations (Paper presented at the Xth (2005) International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, GER)

Soderstrom, M., & Morgan, J.L. (2005, September) Disfluency in speech input to infants? The interaction of mother and child to create error-free speech input for language acquisition . DiSS05, Aix-en-Provence .

Morgan, J. L., Duran, P., & Layton , D. (2005, November) A U-shaped pattern in infants' lexical representations? Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Blossom, M. & Morgan, J. L. (2005, November). Does the face say what the mouth says? A study of infants' sensitivity to visual prosody. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Morgan, J. L. (2006, June). Words in the babes: Details all the way down? Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Kyoto .

Morgan, J. L. (2006, June). Perspectives on artificial language research with infants. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Kyoto .

Soderstrom, M., & Morgan, J. L. (2006, November). Twenty-two-month-olds discriminate fluent from disfluent adult-directed speech based on prosodic characteristics.

Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development .

Conwell, E., & Morgan, J. L. (2006, November) Resolving grammatical category ambiguity in acquisition. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Tenenbaum, E., & Morgan, J. L. (2006, November) Racing to segment? Top-down versus bottom-up in infant word recognition. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development.

White, K. S., Kirk, C., Peperkamp, S., & Morgan, J. L. (2006, November). A developmental trajectory for the statistical learning of phonological alternations Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development.

White, K. S., Morgan, J. L., & Blumstein, S. (2007, March). Support for continuity of lexical representation in late infancy and adulthood. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston , March.

Morgan, J. L., & Fennell, C. (2007, June). What we know about statistical learning and artificial language learning methods, what we don't know, and what we need to do. Invited presentation at workshop on Current Issues in Language Acquisition: Artificial Languages and Statistical Learning, Calgary , CA .

Morgan, J. L., & Soderstrom, M. (2007, November) Twenty-two month olds detect verb-noun exchanges in fluent speech: Evidence for category preferences for familiar content words. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Blossom, M., & Morgan, J. (2008, March). How babies look at faces: Changes in gaze patterns for talking faces from 6 to 14 months. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver.

Bortfeld, H., & Morgan, J. (2008, March). Infant word recognition is stress-full . Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver.

Conwell, E., & Morgan, J. (2008, March). Learning about cross-category word use: The role of prosodic cues . Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver.

Soderstrom, M., Sauter, D., & Morgan, J. (2008, March). Understanding relief and achievement: Infants' discrimination and crossmodal perception of two positive affective expressions. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver.

Tenenbaum, E., Blossom, M., Matsunaka, R., Hiraki, J., & Morgan, J. (2008, March). Read my lips: Japanese and American infants' patterns of conversational gaze. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver.

White, K. S., Peperkamp, S., & Morgan, J. L. (2008, March). The acquisition of phonological alternations using distributional cues . Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver.

h. Work in Review

Conwell, E., & Morgan, J. L. (submitted). When parents verb nouns: Resolving the ambicategoricality problem. Language Learning and Development. .

Feldman, N. H., Griffiths, T. L., & Morgan, J. L. (submitted). The influence of categories on perception: Explaining the perceptual magnet effect as optimal statistical inference. Psychological Review .

Morgan, J. L., White, K., Singh, L., Bortfeld, H. (submitted). DRIBBLER: A developmental model of spoken word recognition. Psychological Review .

White, K. S., Blumstein, S. E., & Morgan, J. L. (submitted). Effects of lexical familiarity on adults' use of phonetic detail. Journal of Memory and Language.

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