Dr Jacky Chan's Outputs (5)

The sound of silence: Reconsidering infants' object categorization in silence, with labels, and with nonlinguistic sounds (2023)
Journal Article
Chan, K. C. J., Shaw, P., & Westermann, G. (2023). The sound of silence: Reconsidering infants' object categorization in silence, with labels, and with nonlinguistic sounds. Cognition, 237, Article 105475. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105475

A large body of research based on a specific stimulus set (dinosaur/fish) has argued that auditory labels and novel communicative signals (such as beeps used in a communicative context) facilitate category formation in infants, that such effects can... Read More about The sound of silence: Reconsidering infants' object categorization in silence, with labels, and with nonlinguistic sounds.

Adapting to children’s individual language proficiency: An observational study of preschool teacher talk addressing monolinguals and children learning English as an additional language (2022)
Journal Article
Chan, K. C. J., Monaghan, P., & Michel, M. (2023). Adapting to children’s individual language proficiency: An observational study of preschool teacher talk addressing monolinguals and children learning English as an additional language. Journal of Child Language, 50(2), 365-390. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000921000854

In an increasingly diverse society, young children are likely to speak different first languages that are not the majority language of society. Preschool might be one of the first and few environments where they experience the majority language. The... Read More about Adapting to children’s individual language proficiency: An observational study of preschool teacher talk addressing monolinguals and children learning English as an additional language.

Simulating bilingual word learning: Monolingual and bilingual adults’ use of cross-situational statistics (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chan, K. C. J., & Monaghan, P. (2019, July). Simulating bilingual word learning: Monolingual and bilingual adults’ use of cross-situational statistics. Presented at The 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada

A unified approach to demographic data collection for research with young children across diverse cultures. (2023)
Journal Article
Singh, L., Barokova, M. D., Baumgartner, H. A., Lopera-Perez, D. C., Omane, P. O., Sheskin, M., …Frank, M. C. (2024). A unified approach to demographic data collection for research with young children across diverse cultures. Developmental Psychology, 60(2), 211-227. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001623

Culture is a key determinant of children’s development both in its own right and as a measure of generalizability of developmental phenomena. Studying the role of culture in development requires information about participants’ demographic backgrounds... Read More about A unified approach to demographic data collection for research with young children across diverse cultures..

Word learning in bilingual children (2020)
Thesis
Chan, K. C. J. Word learning in bilingual children. (Thesis). Lancaster University. https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1720719

In a 21st-century super-diverse world, young children are likely to speak different first languages which are not the majority language of society. For some children, preschool is one of the few environments where they experience this majority langua... Read More about Word learning in bilingual children.