Developmental sociolinguistics is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary framework that builds
upon theoretical and methodological contributions from multiple disciplines (ie …

Adult processing of other-accented speech is fast, dependent on lexical access, and readily
generalizable to new words. But what does children's processing of other-accented speech …

Young children often deny that improbable events are possible. We examined whether
children aged 5–7 (N= 300) might have more success in recognizing that these events are …

For many second language (L2) speakers, including immigrants, speaking with an L2 accent
can be a source of unfair or biased treatment in many workplace contexts. However, apart …

Although unfamiliar accents can pose word identification challenges for children and adults,
few studies have directly compared perception of multiple nonnative and regional accents or …

Can children tell how different a speaker's accent is from their own? In Experiment 1 (N= 84),
four-and five-year-olds heard speakers with different accents and indicated where they …

From infancy, children display robust preferences for native‐accented and local‐dialect
speakers over foreign or nonlocal counterparts. These accent‐and dialect‐based …

Within a language, there is considerable variation in the pronunciations of words owing to
social factors like age, gender, nationality, and race. In the present study, we investigate …

Children have a robust social preference for people similar to them, like those who share
their language, accent, and race. In the present research, we show that this preference can …

Common knowledge can be a potent sign of shared social attributes among people, but not
all knowledge is socially meaningful to the same extent. For instance, compared to shared …