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Ritsema, V., Workye, R., & Weatherhead, D. (2024). Language experience influences sociolinguistic development: The role of speaker race and language attitudes on bilingual and monolingual adults’ accent processing. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14101028

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Ryken, A. M., Tupper, E., & Weatherhead, D. (2024). Learning linguistic diversity: Listeners have race-based linguistic expectations, but only for phonological variation. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001560

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Weatherhead, D., & White, K. S. (2021). Toddlers link social and speech variation during word learning. 

https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001032

 

Weatherhead, D., & Werker, J. F. (2022). 20‐month‐olds selectively generalize newly learned word meanings based on cues to linguistic community membership. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13234

 

Weatherhead, D., Nancekivell, S. E., & Baron, A. S. (2022). Wearing your knowledge on your sleeve: Young Children’s reasoning about clothing as a marker of group-specific knowledge. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101177

 

Weatherhead, D., Kandhadai, P., Hall, D. G., Werker, J. F. (2021). Putting Mutual Exclusivity in Context: Speaker Race Influences Monolingual and Bilingual Infants’ Word-Learning Assumptions. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13626

 

Weatherhead, D., Friedman, O., & White, K. S. (2019). Preschoolers are sensitive to accent distance. https://uwaterloo.ca/lab-infant-development-language/sites/default/files/uploads/files/weatherheadfriedmanwhite2019.pdf

 

Weatherhead, D., White, K. S., & Friedman, O. (2018).  Children's accent-based inferences depend on geographic background. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.05.004

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Weatherhead, D. & White, K. S. (2018). And then I saw her race: Race-based expectations affects infants’ word processing. Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.04.004

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Weatherhead, D. & Nancekivell, S. (2018). Brungarians use it differently!  Children’s understanding of artifact function as a cultural convention.  Journal of Cognition and Culture. https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/brungarians-use-it-differently-children-s-understanding-of-artifact-iiBsymr9gG?key=brill

 

Weatherhead, D. & White, K. S. (2017). Read my lips: Visual speech influences lexical access in infants.  Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.01.002

 

Weatherhead, D., Friedman, O. & White, K. S. (2017). Accent, Language, and Race: Children's inferences differ by speaker cue.  https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cdev.12797

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Weatherhead, D., White, K. S., & Friedman, O. (2016). Where are you from? Preschoolers infer background from accent. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 143, 171-178.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2015.10.011

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Weatherhead, D. & White, K. S. (2016). He says potato, she says potahto: Young infants track talker-specific accents. Language Learning and Development, 12, 92-103. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15475441.2015.1024835

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