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Newman, R. & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2007). Factors that affect naming in
adults and children who stutter. Proceedings of the 5th World Congress on
Fluency Disorders, Dublin, Ireland, July 2006.(pp. 136-140).
German, D. J. & Newman, R. S. (2007).
Oral reading skills of children with oral language (word finding)
difficulties. Reading Psychology,28 (5),397-442.
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,
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Newman, R. S. & Evers, S. E. (2007). The role of talker familiarity on stream segregation. J. Phonetics, 35, 85-103.
Newman, R. S. (2006). Perceptual restoration in toddlers. Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 625-642.
Newman, R. S., Bernstein Ratner, N., Jusczyk, A. M., Jusczyk, P. W.,
& Dow, K. A. (2006). Infants¹ early ability to segment the conversational
speech signal predicts later language development: a retrospective analysis.
Developmental Psychology, 42(4), 643-655.
Newman, R. S. & Hussain, I. (2006). Changes in infant preference for
infant-directed speech in low and moderate noise by 4.5- to 13-month-olds. Infancy, 10(1), 61-76.
Newman, R. S. & German, D. J. (2005).
Lifespan effects of lexical factors on oral naming. Language and Speech, 48(2), 123-156.
Newman, R. S., Sawusch, J. R. & Luce, P.
A. (2005). Do post-onset segments define a lexical
neighborhood? Memory & Cognition, 33(6), 941-960.
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.
Newman, R. S. (2005). The cocktail party effect
in infants revisited: Listening to one's name in noise.
Developmental Psychology, 41(2), 352-362.
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. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments,
and Computers, 36(4), 599-603.
Barker, B. A. & Newman, R. S. (2004).
Listen to your mother! The role of talker familiarity
in infant streaming. Cognition, 94(2), B45-53.
German, D. J. & Newman, R. S. (2004).
The impact of lexical factors on children's word finding
errors. Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing
Research, 47(3), 624-636.
Newman, R. S. (2004). Perceptual restoration
in children versus adults. Applied Psycholinguistics,
25, 481-493.
Newman, R. S. (2003). Prosodic differences
in mothers' speech to toddlers in quiet and noisy environments.
Applied Psycholinguistics, 24, 539-560.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Newman, R. S. (2000). Not all neighborhood
effects are created equal. Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 23(3), 343. (commentary)
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.
Newman, R. S. (2000). The use of rate
normalization to investigate the basic units of speech.
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Luce, P. A. (1999). Underspecification and phoneme frequency
in speech perception. In M. Broe & J. Pierrehumbert
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Newman, R. S. (1997). Individual differences
and the link between speech perception and speech production.
Dissertation Abstracts International.
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phonetic processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
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(1996). The cocktail party effect in infants. Perception & Psychophysics, 58(8), 1145-1156.
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(1996). Perceptual normalization for speaking rate:
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Development of infant stream segregation: the interplay between
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