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  1. Infants’ attraction to infant vocalizations – A catalyst for infant development

    Article • Infant Behavior and Development, December 2025, Elsevier

    Linda Polka

  2. Comparing Different Measures of Bilingual Input Derived From Naturalistic Daylong Recordings

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, May 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Linda Polka, Yufang Ruan

  3. Quebec-based parents’ concerns regarding their children’s multilingual development

    Article • International Journal of Multilingualism, March 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Linda Polka

  4. A corpus-assisted discourse study of parental concerns regarding multilingual child-rearing

    Article • November 2022, Center for Open Science

    Linda Polka

  5. Quebec-based parents’ concerns regarding their children’s multilingual development

    Article • April 2022, Center for Open Science

    Linda Polka

  6. Family language policy among Québec-based parents raising multilingual infants and toddlers: A study of resources as a form of language management

    Article • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Linda Polka

  7. Quebec-based Parents’ Attitudes Towards Childhood Multilingualism: Evaluative Dimensions and Potential Predictors

    Article • Journal of Language and Social Psychology, February 2022, SAGE Publications

    Linda Polka

  8. Setting the Stage for Speech Production: Infants Prefer Listening to Speech Sounds With Infant Vocal Resonances

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, January 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Linda Polka

  9. Family language policy among Québec-based parents raising multilingual infants and toddlers: A study of resources as a form of language management

    Article • December 2021, Center for Open Science

    Linda Polka

  10. Quebec-based Parents’ Attitudes towards Childhood Multilingualism: Evaluative Dimensions and Potential Predictors

    Article • November 2021, Center for Open Science

    Linda Polka

  11. Code-switching in parents’ everyday speech to bilingual infants

    Article • April 2020, Center for Open Science

    Linda Polka

  12. Intersections of official and family language policy in Quebec

    Article • March 2020, Center for Open Science

    Linda Polka

  13. What do bilingual infants actually hear? Evaluating measures of language input to bilingual‐learning 10‐month‐olds

    Article • Developmental Science, October 2019, Wiley

    Linda Polka

  14. What do bilingual infants actually hear? Evaluating measures of language input to bilingual-learning 10-month-olds

    Article • September 2019, Center for Open Science

    Linda Polka

  15. Reliability of the Language Environment Analysis Recording System in Analyzing French–English Bilingual Speech

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, July 2019, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Linda Polka, Dr Krista Byers-Heinlein

  16. Reliability of the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) in French-English Bilingual Speech

    Article • March 2019, Center for Open Science

    Linda Polka

  17. The consonant bias in word learning is not determined by position within the word: Evidence from vowel-initial words

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, October 2018, Elsevier

    Linda Polka

  18. Asymmetries in unimodal visual vowel perception: The roles of oral-facial kinematics, orientation, and configuration.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, July 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Linda Polka

  19. Interacting processes and developmental biases allow learners to crack the “what” code and the “who” code in spoken language

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, July 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Linda Polka

  20. A universal bias in adult vowel perception – By ear or by eye

    Article • Cognition, September 2017, Elsevier

    Linda Polka

  21. Directional asymmetries reveal a universal bias in adult vowel perception

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2017, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Linda Polka

  22. The phonetic landscape in infant consonant perception is an uneven terrain

    Article • Cognition, October 2016, Elsevier

    Linda Polka

  23. Segmenting words from fluent speech during infancy - challenges and opportunities in a bilingual context

    Article • Developmental Science, May 2016, Wiley

    Linda Polka

  24. Reading ability influences native and non-native voice recognition, even for unimpaired readers

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, January 2016, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Linda Polka

  25. Language exposure facilitates talker learning prior to language comprehension, even in adults

    Article • Cognition, October 2015, Elsevier

    Linda Polka

  26. When infants talk, infants listen: pre-babbling infants prefer listening to speech with infant vocal properties

    Article • Developmental Science, March 2015, Wiley

    Linda Polka

  27. Who’s Talking Now? Infants’ Perception of Vowels With Infant Vocal Properties

    Article • Psychological Science, June 2014, SAGE Publications

    Linda Polka

  28. Learning two languages from birth shapes pre-attentive processing of vowel categories: Electrophysiological correlates of vowel discrimination in monolinguals and simultaneous bilinguals

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, December 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Linda Polka

  29. Early word segmentation in infants acquiring Parisian French: task-dependent and dialect-specific aspects

    Article • Journal of Child Language, May 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Linda Polka

  30. Effects of acoustic variability on infant speech perception

    Article • January 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Linda Polka

  31. Infant recognition of infant vocal signals

    Article • January 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Linda Polka

  32. Infants' categorization of vowels with infant vocal properties

    Article • January 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Linda Polka

  33. The role of acoustic/perceptual salience in directional asymmetry in infant stop/fricative contrast perception

    Article • January 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Linda Polka

  34. The role of prosody in speech segmentation: comparisons between monolinguals and French-English bilinguals

    Article • January 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Linda Polka

  35. Différences linguistiques et dialectales dans la mise en place des procédures de segmentation de la parole*

    Article • Enfance, June 2012, CAIRN

    Linda Polka

  36. Natural Referent Vowel (NRV) framework: An emerging view of early phonetic development

    Article • Journal of Phonetics, October 2011, Elsevier

    Linda Polka

  37. Using the lens of phonetic experience to resolve phonological forms

    Article • Journal of Phonetics, October 2011, Elsevier

    Linda Polka

  38. Word Segmentation in Monolingual Infants Acquiring Canadian English and Canadian French: Native Language, Cross-Dialect, and Cross-Language Comparisons

    Article • Infancy, April 2011, Wiley

    Linda Polka

  39. The first steps in word learning are easier when the shoes fit: comparing monolingual and bilingual infants

    Article • Developmental Science, January 2010, Wiley

    Linda Polka

  40. Energy Reflectance and Tympanometry in Normal and Otosclerotic Ears

    Article • Ear & Hearing, April 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Linda Polka

  41. Emergence of the corner vowels in the babble produced by infants exposed to Canadian English or Canadian French

    Article • Journal of Phonetics, October 2008, Elsevier

    Linda Polka

  42. Speech Perception by 6-to 8-Month-Olds in the Presence of Distracting Sounds

    Article • Infancy, September 2008, Wiley

    Linda Polka

  43. Development of coronal stop perception: Bilingual infants keep pace with their monolingual peers

    Article • Cognition, July 2008, Elsevier

    Linda Polka

  44. Multifrequency Tympanometry in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Well Babies

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, May 2008, Thieme Publishing Group

    Linda Polka

  45. The developmental course of lexical tone perception in the first year of life

    Article • Cognition, March 2008, Elsevier

    Linda Polka

  46. Discrimination of coronal stops by bilingual adults: The timing and nature of language interaction

    Article • Cognition, January 2008, Elsevier

    Linda Polka

  47. Developmental and cross-linguistic variation in the infant vowel space: The case of Canadian English and Canadian French

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2006, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Linda Polka

  48. Language-experience facilitates discrimination of /d-/ in monolingual and bilingual acquisition of English

    Article • Cognition, June 2006, Elsevier

    Linda Polka

  49. Music cognition in early infancy: infants’ preferences and long-term memory for Ravel

    Article • International Journal of Music Education, April 2006, SAGE Publications

    Dr Beatriz Ilari, Linda Polka

  50. Production of coronal stops by simultaneous bilingual adults

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, February 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Linda Polka

  51. The Impact of Otitis Media With Effusion on Infant Phonetic Perception

    Article • Infancy, September 2005, Wiley

    Linda Polka

  52. Asymmetries in vowel perception

    Article • Speech Communication, August 2003, Elsevier

    Linda Polka

  53. Target spectral, dynamic spectral, and duration cues in infant perception of German vowels

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, July 2001, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Linda Polka

  54. A cross-language comparison of /d /–/ð / perception: Evidence for a new developmental pattern

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2001, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Linda Polka

  55. Standard and Multifrequency Tympanometry in Normal and Otosclerotic Ears

    Article • Ear & Hearing, August 1997, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Linda Polka

  56. A cross‐language comparison of vowel perception in English‐learning and German‐learning infants

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, July 1996, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Linda Polka

  57. Linguistic influences in adult perception of non‐native vowel contrasts

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, February 1995, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Linda Polka

  58. Developmental changes in perception of nonnative vowel contrasts.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 1994, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Linda Polka

  59. Characterizing the influence of native language experience on adult speech perception

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Linda Polka

  60. Cross-language speech perception in adults: Phonemic, phonetic, and acoustic contributions

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, June 1991, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Linda Polka

  61. Trading relations in the perception of /r/–/l/ by Japanese learners of English

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, July 1988, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Linda Polka

  62. Training intraphonemic discrimination of /r/−/l/

    Article • Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, December 1986, Springer Science + Business Media

    Linda Polka

  63. Perceptual equivalence of acoustic cues that differentiate /r/ and /l/

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 1985, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Linda Polka