Megha Sundara, Ph.D. - Publications

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Linguistics University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 

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2024 Mateu V, Sundara M. Constraints on Acceleration in Bilingual Development: Evidence from Word Segmentation by Spanish Learning Infants. Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland). 14. PMID 38392461 DOI: 10.3390/bs14020108  0.624
2023 Steffman J, Sundara M. Short-term exposure alters adult listeners' perception of segmental phonotactics. Jasa Express Letters. 3. PMID 38085137 DOI: 10.1121/10.0023900  0.46
2021 Byers-Heinlein K, Tsui ASM, Bergmann C, Black AK, Brown A, Carbajal MJ, Durrant S, Fennell CT, Fiévet AC, Frank MC, Gampe A, Gervain J, Gonzalez-Gomez N, Hamlin JK, Havron N, ... ... Sundara M, et al. A multi-lab study of bilingual infants: Exploring the preference for infant-directed speech. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 4. PMID 35821764 DOI: 10.1177/2515245920974622  0.632
2021 Sundara M, Zhou ZL, Breiss C, Katsuda H, Steffman J. Infants' developing sensitivity to native language phonotactics: A meta-analysis. Cognition. 221: 104993. PMID 34953268 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104993  0.753
2021 Mateu V, Sundara M. Spanish input accelerates bilingual infants' segmentation of English words. Cognition. 218: 104936. PMID 34678682 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104936  0.66
2021 Kim Y, Sundara M. 6-month-olds are sensitive to English morphology. Developmental Science. PMID 33503291 DOI: 10.1111/desc.13089  0.668
2021 Sundara M, White J, Kim YJ, Chong AJ. Stem similarity modulates infants' acquisition of phonological alternations. Cognition. 209: 104573. PMID 33406462 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104573  0.752
2020 Sundara M, Ward N, Conboy B, Kuhl PK. Exposure to a second language in infancy alters speech production. Bilingualism (Cambridge, England). 23: 1-14. PMID 33776544 DOI: 10.1017/S1366728919000853  0.831
2019 Steffman J, Sundara M. Biphone probability and neighborhood density effects on phonetic categorization The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 146: 3056-3056. DOI: 10.1121/1.5137601  0.431
2019 Yang M, Sundara M. Cue-shifting between acoustic cues: Evidence for directional asymmetry Journal of Phonetics. 75: 27-42. DOI: 10.1016/J.Wocn.2019.04.002  0.553
2018 Sundara M, Mateu VE. Lexical stress constrains English-learning infants' segmentation in a non-native language. Cognition. 181: 105-116. PMID 30176405 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2018.08.013  0.703
2018 Sundara M, Ngon C, Skoruppa K, Feldman NH, Onario GM, Morgan JL, Peperkamp S. Young infants' discrimination of subtle phonetic contrasts. Cognition. 178: 57-66. PMID 29777983 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2018.05.009  0.628
2018 Lin I, Chong AJ, Sundara M. Variation in English infant-directed speech The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 143: 1971-1971. DOI: 10.1121/1.5036494  0.826
2018 Chong AJ, Vicenik C, Sundara M. Intonation Plays a Role in Language Discrimination by Infants Infancy. 23: 795-819. DOI: 10.1111/Infa.12257  0.843
2017 Sundara M. Why do children pay more attention to grammatical morphemes at the ends of sentences? Journal of Child Language. 1-14. PMID 29067896 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000917000356  0.465
2017 Sundara M. Does the developing lexicon constrain infants’ discrimination of English vowels? The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 142: 2706-2706. DOI: 10.1121/1.5014878  0.44
2016 Polka L, Orena AJ, Sundara M, Worrall J. Segmenting words from fluent speech during infancy - challenges and opportunities in a bilingual context. Developmental Science. PMID 27146860 DOI: 10.1111/Desc.12419  0.686
2016 Hendrickson K, Sundara M. Fourteen-month-olds' decontextualized understanding of words for absent objects. Journal of Child Language. 1-16. PMID 26781987 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000915000756  0.614
2016 Chong A, Sundara M. Perceptual Similarity Modulates Context Effects in Online Compensation for Phonological Variation Proceedings of the Annual Meetings On Phonology. 2. DOI: 10.3765/amp.v2i0.3761  0.363
2016 Sundara M, Molnar M, Frota S. English-learning infants’ perception of boundary tones The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 140: 3448-3448. DOI: 10.1121/1.4971134  0.674
2016 Aly AM, Jacobson S, Sundara M. Levels of prominence in Spanish infant-directed speech The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 140: 3446-3446. DOI: 10.1121/1.4971123  0.576
2015 Kim YJ, Sundara M. Segmentation of vowel-initial words is facilitated by function words. Journal of Child Language. 42: 709-33. PMID 25158755 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000914000269  0.67
2015 Kim YJ, Sundara M. Segmentation of vowel-initial words is facilitated by function words Journal of Child Language. 42: 709-733. DOI: 10.1017/S0305000914000269  0.342
2014 White J, Sundara M. Biased generalization of newly learned phonological alternations by 12-month-old infants. Cognition. 133: 85-90. PMID 24973627 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2014.05.020  0.664
2014 Nazzi T, Mersad K, Sundara M, Iakimova G, Polka L. Early word segmentation in infants acquiring Parisian French: task-dependent and dialect-specific aspects. Journal of Child Language. 41: 600-33. PMID 23659594 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000913000111  0.665
2014 Yu KM, Khan SUD, Sundara M. Intonational phonology in Bengali and English infant-directed speech Proceedings of the International Conference On Speech Prosody. 1125-1129.  0.765
2013 Vicenik C, Sundara M. The role of intonation in language and dialect discrimination by adults Journal of Phonetics. 41: 297-306. DOI: 10.1016/J.Wocn.2013.03.003  0.832
2012 Polka L, Sundara M. Word Segmentation in Monolingual Infants Acquiring Canadian English and Canadian French: Native Language, Cross-Dialect, and Cross-Language Comparisons. Infancy : the Official Journal of the International Society On Infant Studies. 17: 198-232. PMID 32693528 DOI: 10.1111/J.1532-7078.2011.00075.X  0.704
2012 Nazzi T, Goyet L, Sundara M, Polka L. Linguistic and dialectal differences in the development of the procedures of word segmentation | Différences linguistiques et dialectales dans la mise en place des procédures de segmentation de la parole Enfance. 2012: 127-146. DOI: 10.4074/S0013754512002017  0.462
2012 Polka L, Sundara M. Word Segmentation in Monolingual Infants Acquiring Canadian English and Canadian French: Native Language, Cross-Dialect, and Cross-Language Comparisons Infancy. 17: 198-232. DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00075.x  0.608
2011 Sundara M, Demuth K, Kuhl PK. Sentence-position effects on children's perception and production of English third person singular -s. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : Jslhr. 54: 55-71. PMID 20705740 DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2010/10-0056)  0.372
2011 Vicenik CJ, Sundara M. Weighting of prosodic cues in language discrimination by infants and adults The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 130: 2567-2567. DOI: 10.1121/1.3655282  0.846
2011 Sundara M, Mateu V. A cross-linguistic investigation of word segmentation by monolingual infants learning Spanish and English The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 130: 2566-2566. DOI: 10.1121/1.3655279  0.716
2011 Ward N, Sundara M. Is infants' native language preference in the visual modality guided by speech rhythm? The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 130: 2566-2566. DOI: 10.1121/1.3655278  0.843
2011 Jacobson S, Ward N, Sundara M. Acoustic correlates of stress in Spanish infant-directed speech The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 130: 2428-2428. DOI: 10.1121/1.3654731  0.821
2011 Sundara M, Scutellaro A. Rhythmic distance between languages affects the development of speech perception in bilingual infants Journal of Phonetics. 39: 505-513. DOI: 10.1016/J.Wocn.2010.08.006  0.746
2010 Ward N, Sundara M. Development of native language preference in the visual modality. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 128: 2350-2350. DOI: 10.1121/1.3508332  0.84
2010 Kim YJ, Sundara M. Function word facilitate word segmentation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 128: 2350-2350. DOI: 10.1121/1.3508329  0.621
2010 Thatte V, Sundara M. Four and a half month‐olds’ phonotactic knowledge. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 128: 2350-2350. DOI: 10.1121/1.3508328  0.766
2010 Hendrickson K, Sundara M. The development of referential understanding. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 128: 2350-2350. DOI: 10.1121/1.3508327  0.531
2010 White J, Sundara M. Experimental evidence for phoneme‐level inhibition in spoken word recognition. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 128: 2322-2322. DOI: 10.1121/1.3508194  0.507
2009 Yung Song J, Sundara M, Demuth K. Phonological constraints on children's production of English third person singular -s. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : Jslhr. 52: 623-42. PMID 18952857 DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/07-0258)  0.345
2009 Ilari B, Sundara M. Music listening preferences in early life: Infants' responses to accompanied versus unaccompanied singing Journal of Research in Music Education. 56: 357-369. DOI: 10.1177/0022429408329107  0.496
2009 Sundara M, Scutellaro A. How are speech sound categories acquired in bilingual first language acquisition? The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 125: 2770-2770. DOI: 10.1121/1.4784721  0.68
2009 Vicenik C, Sundara M. Role of rhythmic and intonational cues in language discrimination. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 125: 2764-2764. DOI: 10.1121/1.4784686  0.832
2009 Sundara M, Vicenik C. Language and dialect discrimination by five-month-olds. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 126: 2314. DOI: 10.1121/1.3249543  0.857
2009 Ward N, Sundara M, Conboy B, Kuhl P. Consequences of short-term language exposure in infancy on babbling. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 126: 2311. DOI: 10.1121/1.3249527  0.827
2008 Sundara M, Polka L, Molnar M. Development of coronal stop perception: bilingual infants keep pace with their monolingual peers. Cognition. 108: 232-42. PMID 18281027 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2007.12.013  0.681
2008 Sundara M, Polka L. Discrimination of coronal stops by bilingual adults: the timing and nature of language interaction. Cognition. 106: 234-58. PMID 17379203 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2007.01.011  0.544
2008 Vicenik C, Sundara M. The role of segmental and intonational cues in dialect discrimination The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 123: 3883-3883. DOI: 10.1121/1.2935801  0.836
2008 Polka L, Proulx J, Sundara M. Speech segmentation in monolingual and bilingual infant learners of Canadian English and Canadian French The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 123: 3882-3882. DOI: 10.1121/1.2935798  0.724
2008 Sundara M, Kitamura C, Nazzi T. Behavioral and physiological correlates of language preference The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 123: 3326-3326. DOI: 10.1121/1.2933819  0.722
2008 Nazzi T, Mersad K, Iakimova G, Sundara M, Polka L. Differences in the development of speech segmentation abilities in two French dialects The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 123: 3075-3075. DOI: 10.1121/1.2932862  0.64
2006 Sundara M, Polka L, Genesee F. Language-experience facilitates discrimination of /d-th/ in monolingual and bilingual acquisition of English. Cognition. 100: 369-88. PMID 16115614 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2005.04.007  0.587
2006 Sundara M, Kuhl PK. Distinguishing voices: Are infants’ abilities affected by age or language experience? The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 120: 3135-3135. DOI: 10.1121/1.4787734  0.658
2006 Sundara M, Polka L, Baum S. Production of coronal stops by simultaneous bilingual adults Bilingualism. 9: 97-114. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728905002403  0.463
2005 Sundara M. Acoustic-phonetics of coronal stops: A cross-language study of Canadian English and Canadian French Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 118: 1026-1037. PMID 16158658 DOI: 10.1121/1.1953270  0.542
2005 Cardillo G, Kuhl P, Sundara M. Relative saliency of pitch versus phonetic cues in infancy The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 118: 1962-1962. DOI: 10.1121/1.4781535  0.572
2004 Sundara M, Polka L. Speech perception and production in bilinguals and monolinguals: Convergent and divergent patterns in adulthood and development The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 115: 2503-2503. DOI: 10.1121/1.4783035  0.608
2002 Sundara M. Does one plus one equal three in early simultaneous bilingual speech perception? The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 112: 2388-2388. DOI: 10.1121/1.4779725  0.637
2002 Polka L, Sundara M, Blue S. The role of language experience in word segmentation: A comparison of English, French, and bilingual infants The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 111: 2455. DOI: 10.1121/1.4778467  0.721
2002 Sundara M, Polka L, Campisi L, Genesee F, Marcoux C. Learning to perceive English /d/ versus /ð/: A comparison of French, English, and English–French bilingual 4-year-olds The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 111: 2363. DOI: 10.1121/1.4777966  0.668
2001 Sundara M, Namasivayam AK, Chen R. Observation-execution matching system for speech: A magnetic stimulation study Neuroreport. 12: 1341-1344. PMID 11388407 DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200105250-00010  0.375
2001 Polka L, Colantonio C, Sundara M. A cross-language comparison of /d/-/th/ perception: evidence for a new developmental pattern. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 109: 2190-201. PMID 11386570 DOI: 10.1121/1.1362689  0.682
2001 Sundara M, Polka L. Bilingual speech production: The case of simultaneous acquisition The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 110: 2685-2685. DOI: 10.1121/1.4777212  0.602
2000 Aravind NK, Sundara M, Chen R. Effects of auditory and visual stimuli on motor facilitation of speech muscles The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 107: 2887-2887. DOI: 10.1121/1.429321  0.326
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