Cychosz M., Edwards, J., Romeo, R., & Newman, R. S. (2023). The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants. To appear in the Journal of Child Language.
Mallikarjun, A., Shroads, E., & Newman, R. S. (2023). Language preference in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris). Animal Cognition, 26, 451-463. doi: 10.1007/s10071-022-01683-9. PMID:36064831. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. & Simpson, V. M. (2023). Infants' short-term memory for consonant-vowel syllables. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 226, 105567. [pdf]
Blomquist, C.M., Newman, R.N., & Edwards, J. (2023). The development of spoken word recognition in informative and uninformative sentence contexts. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 227, 105581
Cychosz, M. & Newman, R. S. (2023). Perceptual normalization for speaking rate occurs below the level of the syllable. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153, 1486-1495. doi:10.1121/10.0017360
Cychosz, M., Mahr, T., Munson, B., Newman, R., & Edwards, J. (2023). Preschoolers rely on rich speech representations to process variable speech. Child Development. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13922 [pdf]
Newman, R. S. & Von Holzen, K. (2023). Communication Development in Infancy. In The Development of Language, J. Berko Gleason & N. Bernstein Ratner, 10th edition. Plural Publishing.
2019 - 2022
Stockbridge, M. D., Keser, Z., & Newman, R. S. (2022). Concussion in women’s flat-track roller derby. Frontiers in Neurology, Feb. 14; 13:809939. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2022.809939. [pdf]
Jaekel, B, N,, Weinstein, S., Newman, R. S. & Goupell, M. J. (2022). Impacts of signal processing factors on perceptual restoration in cochlear-implant users. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151(5), 2898. PMC9054268.
Heffner, C. C., Jaekel, B. N., Newman, R. S., & Goupell, M. J. (2021). Accuracy and cue use in word segmentation for cochlear-implant listeners and normal-hearing listeners presented vocoded speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(4), 2936–2951. Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1121/10.0006448. PMC8528550, PMID: 34717484 [pdf]
Cychosz, M., Munson, B., Newman, R. S. & Edwards, J. R. (2021). Auditory feedback experience in the development of phonetic production: Evidence from preschoolers with cochlear implants and their normal-hearing peers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(3), 2256. PMID: 34598599 [pdf]
Cychosz, M., Edwards, J. R., Ratner, N. B., Eaton, C. T. & Newman, R. S. (2021). Acoustic-lexical characteristics of child-directed speech between 7 and 24 months and their impact on toddlers' phonological processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:712647. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.712647. PMC8497969 [pdf]
Morini, G. M. & Newman, R. S. (2021). A comparison of monolingual and bilingual toddlers’ word recognition in noise. To appear in International Journal of Bilingualism. 25(5), 1446-1459.[pdf]
Newman, R. S., Shroads, E. A., Johnson, E. K., Kamdar, J., Morini, G., Onishi, J., Smith, E. & Tincoff, R. (2021). Introducing BITTSy: The Behavioral Infant & Toddler Testing System. Behavior Research Methods. 53, 2604-2614. PMID: 34013485. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01583-9 [pdf]
Blomquist, C., Newman, R. S., Huang, Y. T., & Edwards, J. (2021). Children with cochlear implants use semantic prediction to facilitate spoken word recognition. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(5), 1636-1649. [pdf]
Jaekel, B.N., Weinstein, S., Newman, R.S., & Goupell, M.J. (2021). Access to semantic cues does not lead to perceptual restoration of interrupted speech in cochlear-implant users. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149(3), 1488. PMC7935498. doi:10.1121/10.0003573 [pdf]
Newman, R.S., Kirby, L. A., Von Holzen, K., & Redcay, E. (2021). Read my lips: Perception of speech in noise by preschool children with autism and the impact of watching the speaker's face. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 13(4). epub ahead of print. doi:10.1186/s11689-020-09348-9. [pdf]
Heffner, C. C., Newman, R. S. & Idsardi, W. (2021). Action at a distance: Long-distance rate adaptation in event perception. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(2), 312-325. doi: 10.1177/1747021820959756. [pdf]
Mallikarjun, A., Shroads, E., & Newman, R. S. (2021). The role of linguistic experience in the development of the consonant bias. Animal Cognition, 24(3), 419-431. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-020-01436-6.[pdf]
O'Fallon, M., Von Holzen, K. & Newman, R. (2020). Preschoolers’ word-learning during storybook reading interactions: Comparing repeated and elaborated input. Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research, 63(3), 814-826. doi:10.1044/2019_JSLHR-19-00189 [pdf]
Stockbridge, M.D., Newman, R. S., Zukowski, A., Slawson, K. K., Doran, A. & Ratner, N. B. (2020). Language profiles in children with concussion. Brain Injury, 34(4), 567-574. doi:10.1080/ 02699052.2020.1725836
Raneri, D., von Holzen, K., Newman, R. & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2020) Change in maternal speech rate to preverbal infants over the first two years of life. Journal of Child Language, 47(6), 1263-1275. doi:10.1017/S030500091900093X. [pdf]
Newman, R. S., Morini, G., Shroads, E. & Chatterjee, M. (2020) Toddlers’ fast-mapping from noise-vocoded speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147 (4), 2432-2441. doi:10.1121/10.0001129 [pdf]
Morini, G. & Newman, R. S. (2020) Monolingual and bilingual word recognition and word learning in background noise. Language and Speech, 63, 381-403. PubMed PMID: 31106697. [pdf]
Gerhold, K., Eaton, C. T., Newman, R. S., & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2020). Early phonological predictors of toddler language outcomes. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 72(6), 442-453. doi:10.1159/000503230.
Heffner, C. C., Newman, R. S. & Idsardi, W. (2019). Constraints on learning disjunctive, unidimensional auditory and phonetic categories. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81(4), 958-980. doi:10.3758/s13414-019-01683-x [pdf]
Mallikarjun, A., Shroads, E., Newman, R. S. (2019). The Cocktail Party Effect in the Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris). Animal Cognition, 22(3), 423-432. doi:10.1007/s10071-019-01255-4 [pdf]
Morini, G. & Newman, R. S. (2019). Monolingual and bilingual word recognition and word learning in background noise. Language and Speech, May 19. doi: 10.1177/0023830919846158. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31106697. [pdf]
Stockbridge, M. D. & Newman, R. S. (2019). Enduring cognitive and linguistic deficits in individuals with a history of concussion. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 28, 1554-1570. doi:10.1044/2019_AJSLP-18-0196. [pdf]
Morini, G. & Newman, R. S. (2019). Dónde está la ball? Examining the effect of code-switching on bilingual children’s word recognition. Journal of Child Language, 46(6), 1238-1248. [pdf]
2016 - 2018
Godwin, K., Erickson, L. & Newman, R. S. (2018). Insights from crossing research silos on visual and auditory attention. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(1), 47-52. [pdf]
Eaton, C. T. & Newman, R. S. (2018). "Heart and ____ or give and ____? An exploration of variables that influence binomial completion for individuals with and without aphasia". American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 21, 819-826.
Jaekel, B. N., Newman, R.S., & Goupell, M. J. (2018). Age effects on perceptual restoration of degraded interrupted sentences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(1), 84-97. [pdf]
Newman, R. S., Morini, G., Kozlovsky , P., & Panza, S. (2018). Foreign accent and toddlers’ word learning: the effect of phonological contrast. Language Learning & Development, 14(2), 97-112.
Stockbridge, M. D., Doran, A., King, K., & Newman, R. S. (2018). The effects of concussion on rapid picture naming in children. Brain Injury, 32(4), 506-514. doi: 10.1080/02699052.2018.1429660
Newman, R. S., German, D. J., & Jagielko, J. (2017). Influence of lexical factors on word-finding accuracy, error patterns, and substitution types. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 39(2), 356-366. doi: 10.1177/1525740117712205. [pdf]
Lin, C., Wang, M., Newman, R. S. & Li, C. (2017). The development of stress sensitivity and its contribution to word reading in school-aged children. To appear in Journal of Research in Reading. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9817.12094 (Online ahead of print). [pdf]
Heffner, C.C., Newman, R.S. & Idsardi, W. (2017). Support for context effects on segmentation and segments depends on the context. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 2017 Jan 17. doi: 10.3758/s13414-016-1274-5. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28097505. [pdf]
Newman, R.S. & Morini, G. (2017). Effect of the relationship between target and masker sex on infants' recognition of speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(2). EL164-169. [pdf]
Huang, Y. T., Newman, R. S., Catalano, A., & Goupell, M. J. (2017). Using prosody to infer discourse prominence in cochlear-implant users and normal-hearing listeners. Cognition, 166, 184-200. [pdf]
Erickson, L. C. & Newman, R. S. (2017). Influences of background noise on infants and children. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26(5), 451-457. [pdf]
Hartman, K. M., Bernstein Ratner, N. & Newman, R. S. (2017). Infant-directed speech (IDS) vowel clarity and child language outcomes. Journal of Child Language, 44(5), 1140-1162. PubMed PMID: 27978860. [pdf]
Renzi, D. T., Romberg, A. R., Bolger, D. J. & Newman, R. S. (2017). Two minds are better than one: Cooperative communication as a new framework for understanding infant language learning. Translational Issues in Psychological Science; Special Issue: Translating Research to Practice in the Language Sciences, 3(1), 19-33. [pdf]
Stockbridge, M. D. & Newman, R. S. (2017). Translating neurodevelopmental findings into predicted outcomes and treatment recommendations for language skills in children and young adults with brain injury. Translational Issues in Psychological Science; Special Issue: Translating Research to Practice in the Language Sciences, 3(1), 104-113. [pdf]
Mallikarjun, A., Newman, R. S. & Novick, J. (2017). Exploiting the interconnected lexicon: Bootstrapping English language learning in young Spanish speakers. Translational Issues in Psychological Science; Special Issue: Translating Research to Practice in the Language Sciences, 3(1), 34-47. [pdf]
Jaekel, B. N., Newman, R. S., & Goupell, M. J. (2017). Speech rate normalization and phonemic boundary perception in cochlear-implant users. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60(5), 1398-1416. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. (2016). Lexical access across talkers. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 31(6), 709-727. [pdf]
Newman, R.S., Rowe, M. & Bernstain Ratner, N. (2016). Input and uptake at 7 months predicts toddler vocabulary: The role of child-directed-speech and infant processing skills in language development. Journal of Child Language, 43(5), 1158-1173. [pdf]
2013 - 2015
Newman, R. S., Chatterjee, M., Morini, G. & Remez, R. E. (2015). Toddlers' comprehension of degraded signals: noise-vocoded vs. sine-wave analogs. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(3), EL311-EL317. [pdf]
Heffner, C.C., Newman, R.S., Dilley, L.C., Idsardi, W. J. (2015). Age-related differences in speech rate perception do not necessarily entail age-related differences in speech rate use. J Speech Lang Hear Res., 58(4), 1341-1349. doi: 10.1044/2015_JSLHR-H-14-0239. PubMed PMID: 25860652. [pdf]
Newman. R.S., Morini, G., Ahsan, F., & Kidd, G. Jr. (2015). Linguistically-based informational masking in preschool children. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138, EL93-EL986. [pdf]
Ross-Sheehy, S. & Newman, R. S. (2015). Infant auditory short-term memory for nonlinguistic sounds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 132, 51-64. [pdf]
Segal, J. & Newman, R. S. (2015). Infant preferences for structure and prosodic properties of infant-directed speech in the second year of life. Infancy, 20, 339-351. [pdf]
Torrington Eaton, C., Newman, R. S., Bernstein Ratner, N., & Rowe, M. (2015). Non-word repetition in two-year-olds: replication of an adapted paradigm and a useful methodological extension. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 29(7), 523-535. [pdf]
Bail, A., Morini, G. & Newman, R. S. (2015). Look at the gato! Code-switching in speech to toddlers. Journal of Child Language, 42(5), 1073-1101.
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Dombroski, J. & Newman, R. (2014). Toddlers' ability to map the meaning of new words in multi-talker environments. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136(5), 2807-2815. [pdf]
Janse, E. & Newman, R. S. (2013). Identifying nonwords: Effects of lexical neighborhoods,
phonotactic probability, and listener characteristics. Language & Speech, 56(4), 421-441. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. & Chatterjee, M. (2013). Toddlers’ recognition of noise-vocoded speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133(1), 483-494. [pdf]
Newman, R. S., Chatterjee, M., Morini, G., & Nasuta, M. (2013). Toddlers' comprehension of noise-vocoded speech and sine-wave analogs to speech. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19. [pdf]
Heffner, C. & Newman, R. S. (2013). Canadian oats and Canadian goats: Comparing distal cues to segmentation and segments. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19. [pdf]
Newman, R. S., Morini, G., & Chatterjee, M. (2013). Infants' name recognition in on- and off-channel noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133(5), EL377-EL383. [pdf]
2009 - 2012
Newman, R. & Sachs, J. (2012). Communication Development in Infancy. In J. Berko Gleason & N. Bernstein Ratner, The Development of Language, 8th edition.
Michael, S., Bernstain Ratner, N., & Newman, R. S. (2012). Verb comprehension and use in
children and adults with Down syndrome. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing
Research, 55(6). 1736-1749. [pdf]
Panneton, R. & Newman, R. S. (2012). Development of speech perception. In R. Fay, A. Popper & L.
Werner (Eds.), Human Auditory Development, Springer Handbook of Auditory Research. [pdf]
Newman, R., Sawusch, J. R. & Wunnenberg, T. (2011). Cues and cue interactions in segmenting
words in fluent speech. Journal of Memory and Language, 64(4), 460-476. [pdf]
Newman, R. (2011). 2-year-olds’ speech understanding in multi-talker environments. Infancy, 16(5),
447-470. [pdf]
Bernstein Ratner, N., Newman, R., & Strekas, A. (2009). Effects of word frequency and phonological neighborhood characteristics on confrontation naming in children who stutter and normally fluent
peers. J. of Fluency Disorders, 34, 225-241. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. (2009). Infant’s listening in multitalker environments: Effect of the number of
background talkers. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 71, 822-836. [pdf]
Newman, R., Samuelson, L. & Gupta, P. (2009). Learning novel neighbors: distributed mappings
help children and connectionist models. In Proceedings of CogSci2008. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. & Sawusch, J. R. (2009). Perceptual normalization for speaking rate III: Effects of the
rate of one voice on perception of another. J. Phonetics, 37(1), 46-65. [pdf]
2008 & earlier
Newman, R.S. (2008). The level of detail in infants’ word learning. Current Directions in
Psychological Science, 17(3), 229-232. [pdf]
Newman, R. & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2007). Factors that affect naming in adults and children who
stutter. In J. Au-Yeung (ed.) Proceedings of the 5th World Congress on Fluency Disorders (pp. 136-140). [pdf]
German, D. J. & Newman, R. S. (2007). Oral reading skills of children with oral language (word
finding) difficulties. Reading Psychology, 28(5). [pdf]
Newman, R. S. & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2007). The role of selected lexical factors on confrontation
naming accuracy, speed and fluency in adults who do and do not stutter. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 196-213. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. & Evers, S. E. (2007). The role of talker familiarity on stream segregation. Journal of Phonetics, 35, 85-103. [pdf]
Newman, R. S., Bernstein Ratner, N., Jusczyk, A. M., Jusczyk, P. W. & Dow, K. A. (2006). Infants’
early ability to segment the conversational speech signal predicts later language development: A
retrospective analysis. Developmental Psychology, 42(4), 643-655. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. & Hussain, I. (2006). Changes in preference for infant-directed speech in low and
moderate noise by 4.5- to 13-month-olds. Infancy, 10(1), 61-76. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. & German, D. J. (2005). Lifespan effects of lexical factors on oral naming. Language and Speech, 48(2), 123-156. [pdf]
Newman, R. S., Sawusch, J. R. & Luce, P. A. (2005). Do post-onset segments define a lexical
neighborhood? Memory & Cognition, 33(6), 941-960. [pdf]
Hollich, G., Newman, R. S. & Jusczyk, P. W. (2005). Infants’ use of synchronized visual information to separate streams of speech. Child Development, 76(3), 598-613. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. (2005). The cocktail party effect in infants revisited: Listening to one’s name in noise. Developmental Psychology, 41(2), 352-362. [pdf]
Gupta, P., Lipinski, J., Abbs, B., Lin, P.-H., Aktunc, M. E., Ludden, D., Martin, N. & Newman, R.
(2004). Space aliens and nonwords: Stimuli for investigating the learning of novel word-meaning
pairs. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 36(4), 599-603. [pdf]
Barker, B. A. & Newman, R. S. (2004). Listen to your mother! The role of talker familiarity in infant streaming. Cognition, 94(2), B45-53. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. (2004). Perceptual restoration in children versus adults. Applied Psycholinguistics,
25, 481-493. [pdf]
German, D. J. & Newman, R. S. (2004). The impact of lexical factors on children’s word finding
errors. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 47(3), 624-636. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. (2003). Prosodic differences in mothers' speech to toddlers in quiet and noisy environments. Applied Psycholinguistics, 24, 539-560. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. (2003). Using links between speech perception and speech production to evaluate different acoustic metrics: A preliminary report. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 113 (5), 2850-2860. [pdf]
Weppelman, T. L., Bostow, A., Schiffer, R., Elbert-Perez, E. & Newman, R. S. (2003). Children's use of the prosodic characteristics of infant-directed speech. Language and Communication , 23 (1), 63-80. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. & German, D. J. (2002). Effects of lexical factors on word naming among normal-learning children and children with word-finding disorders. Language and Speech , 43 (3), 285-317. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. , Clouse, S. A., & Burnham, J. (2001). The perceptual consequences of acoustic variability in fricative production within and across talkers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 109 (3), 1181-96. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. (2000). Not all neighborhood effects are created equal. Behavioral and Brain Sciences , 23 (3), 343. (commentary) [pdf]
Barker, B. A. & Newman, R. S. (2000). The cocktail party effect in infants: Following one's mother's voice. Proceedings of the 24th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development , 92-103.
Sawusch, J. R. & Newman, R. S. (2000). Perceptual normalization for speaking rate II: Effects of signal discontinuities. Perception & Psychophysics , 62 (2), 285-300. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. (2000). The use of rate normalization to investigate the basic units of speech. In S. J. Billings, J. P. Boyle & A. M. Griffith (Eds.), Chicago Linguistics Society, Volume 35: The panels . Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
Newman, R. S., Sawusch, J. R. & Luce, P. A. (1999). Underspecification and phoneme frequency in speech perception. In M. Broe & J. Pierrehumbert (Eds.), Papers in Laboratory Phonology: Language Acquisition and the Lexicon (pp. 298-311). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Newman, R. S. (1997). Individual differences and the link between speech perception and speech production. Dissertation Abstracts International. [pdf]
Newman, R. S., Sawusch, J. R. & Luce, P. A. (1997). Lexical neighborhood effects in phonetic processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23(3), 873-889. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. & Jusczyk, P. W. (1996). The cocktail party effect in infants. Perception & Psychophysics, 58(8), 1145-1156. [pdf]
Newman, R. S. & Sawusch, J. R. (1996). Perceptual normalization for speaking rate: Effects of temporal distance. Perception & Psychophysics, 58(4), 540-560. [pdf]
