Publications

Journal Articles

Zettersten, M., Cox, C., Bergmann, C., Tsui, A., Soderstrom, M., Mayor, J., Lundwall, R., Lewis, M., Kosie, J.E., Kartushina, N., Fusaroli, R., Frank, M.C., Byers-Heinlein, K., Black, A.K., and Mathur, M. B. (2024) Evidence for Infant-directed speech preference is consistent across large-scale, multi-site replication and meta-analysis. Open Mind 8, 439-461.

ManyBabies 5 Consortium (2024, Registered Report Stage 1). A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time. Registered Report, Stage 1 In principle acceptance, Nature Human Behaviour March, 2024.

Soderstrom, M., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Muñoz, L. E., Bochynska, A., Werker, J. F., Skarabela, B., … Black, A.K. …& Tsui, A. S. (2024). Testing the relationship between preferences for infant-directed speech and vocabulary development: A multi-lab study. Journal of Child Language, 1-26.

McMurray, B., Sarrett, M. E., Chiu, S., Black, A. K., Wang, A., Canale, R., & Aslin, R. N. (2022). Decoding the temporal dynamics of spoken word and nonword processing from EEG. NeuroImage, 260, 119457.

ManyBabies Consortium 1b (2021). A multi-lab study of bilingual infants: Exploring the preference for infant-directed speech. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 

Choi*, D. S., Batterink*, L., Black, A. K., Paller, K. A., & Werker, J. F. (2020). Preverbal infants discover statistical word patterns at similar rates as adults: evidence from neural entrainment. Psychological Science, 31(9), 1161-1173.

Byers-Heinlein, K., Tsui, R. K., van Renswoude, D., Black, A. K., Barr, R., Brown, A., Durrant, S., Gampe, A., Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Hay, J., Hernik, M., Jartó, M., Kovács, A. M., Laoun-Rubenstein, A., Lew-Williams, C., Liszkowski, U., Liu, L., Noble, C., Potter, C., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Sebastian-Galles, N., Soderstrom, M., Visser, I., Waddell, C., Wermelinger, S., & Singh, L. (2020). The development of gaze-following in monolingual and bilingual infants: a multi-lab study. Infancy, 26(1), 4-38. DOI:10.1111/infa.12360

ManyBabies Consortium 1 (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 3(1), 24-52.  

Goodrich Smith, W., Black, A. K., & Hudson Kam, C. L. (2019).  Learning speech-internal cues to pronoun interpretation via a cue to the speaker’s intention: a training study. Journal of Child Language, 1-26. doi:10.1017/S0305000918000557. 

Choi, D.*, Black, A.*, & Werker, J. F. (2018). Cascading and multi-sensory influences on speech perception development. Mind, Brain, & Education, 1-12. (*co-first authors)

Gervain, J., Werker, J. F., Black, A., & Geffen, M. N. (2016). The neural correlates of processing scale-invariant environmental sounds at birth. NeuroImage, 133, 144-150.

Pre-registered manuscripts

ManyBabies 5 Consortium (2024, Registered Report Stage 1). A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time. Registered Report, Stage 1 In principle acceptance, Nature Human Behaviour March, 2024.

Many Babies 3 Consortium (2023, Registered Report Stage 1). Infant Rule Learning. Registered Report, Stage 1 In principle acceptance Developmental Science.

Book Chapters

Black, A. K., Choudhary, G. & Hernandez-DePaoli, T. Perceptual Foundations of 2nd Language Phonetic Learning. Invited chapter, The Handbook of Second Language Listening, Editors John M. Levis and Marnie Reed. Wiley Publishing.

Rvachew, Susan; Bernhardt, B.M., Mason, G., & Black, A. K (2022). Canadian English in The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World.

Conference Proceedings and Manuscripts

Lu, H., Werker, J. F., & Black, A. K. (2025). Statistical Word Segmentation in Non-Native Speech. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Melville, L.  & Black, A. K. (2024). Beyond Noise: The Role of Speaker Variability on Statistical Learning. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Black A. K., & Bergmann, C. (2017). Quantifying infants’ statistical word segmentation: A Meta-Analysis. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 124-129.

Black, A. (2011). Acoustic and social parameters on phonetic imitation: gender, emotion, and feature saliency. Qualifying Papers: University of British Columbia Working Papers, 32.  

Black, A. (2011). Ostension and definiteness in the Kwak’wala noun phrase: a syntactic and semantic investigation. Qualifying Papers: University of British Columbia Working Papers, 32. 

Abel, J., Barbosa, A. V., Black, A., Mayer, C., & Vatikiotis-Bateson, E. (2011). The labial viseme reconsidered: Evidence from production and perception. In Proceedings of the 9th International Seminar on Speech Production (pp. 337-344).

Black, A. (2011). Ostension and definiteness in the Kwak’wala noun phrase. ICSNL XLVI, 30, 1-31.  

Black, A. (2010). Gender differences in automatic phonetic accommodation.  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association, Victoria, Canada.

Black, A. & Greene, H. (2010). The role of aktionsart: Redefining the tense and aspectual grammar of Kwak’wala.  Proceedings of the 26th Northwest Linguistics Conference 2010.