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Tsui, A. S. M., Byers-Heinlein, K., & Fennell, C. T. (2019). Associative word learning in infancy: A meta-analysis of the switch task. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. doi:10.1037/dev0000699 View Online.

Orena, A.J., Byers-Heinlein, K., & Polka. L. (accepted, pending minor revisions). Reliability of the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) in French-English bilingual speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Potter, C., Fourakis, E., Morin-Lessard, E., Byers-Heinlein, K., & Lew-Williams, C. (in press). Bilingual toddlers’ comprehension of mixed sentences is asymmetrical across their two languages. Developmental Science. doi: 10.1111/desc.12794. Materials, data, and code: https://osf.io/qp5wz/

Tsui, S. A., Byers-Heinlein, K., & Fennell, C.T. (in press). Associative word learning in infancy: A meta-analysis of the Switch task. Developmental Psychology. Methods, data, and code: https://osf.io/uwe8g/

Morin-Lessard, E., & Byers-Heinlein, K. (accepted). Uh and euh signal novelty for monolinguals and bilinguals: Evidence from children and adults. Journal of Child Language. Materials, data, and code: https://osf.io/qn6px/

Byers-Heinlein K., Schott, E., Gonzalez-Barrero, A. M., Brouillard, M., Dubé D., Laoun-Rubsenstein, A., Morin-Lessard, E., Mastroberardino, M., Jardak, A., Pour Iliaei, S., Salama-Siroishka, N., & Tamayo, M.P. (accepted). MAPLE: A Multilingual Approach to Parent Language Estimates. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Methods and materials: https://osf.io/byxfz/ View Online

Schott, E., Rhemtulla, M., & Byers-Heinlein, K. (in press). Should I test more babies? Solutions for transparent data peeking. Infant Behavior and Development. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.09.010. Methods and code: https://osf.io/qjx7t/ View Online

Gonzales, K., Byers-Heinlein, K., & Lotto, A.J. (2019). How bilinguals perceive speech depends on which language they think they’re hearing. Cognition, 182, 318-330. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.08.021 View Online

Jardak, A., & Byers-Heinlein, B. (2019). Labels or concepts? The development of semantic networks in bilingual two-year-olds. Child Development.doi: 10.1111/cdev.13050   View Online

Grosjean, F., & Byers-Heinlein, K. (2018). The listening bilingual: Speech perception, comprehension, and bilingualism. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.   View Online   Ch. 1 [Bilingual adults and children: A short introduction.] PDF,   Ch. 2 [Speech perception and comprehension.] PDF,   Ch. 8 [Speech perception] PDF,   Ch. 9 [Spoken word recognition.] PDF

Byers-­Heinlein, K., Morin-­Lessard, E., & Lew-­Williams, C. (2017). Bilingual infants control their languages as they listen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1703220114 Materials, data, and code: https://osf.io/htn9j/ View Online

Byers-Heinlein, K. (2017). Bilingualism affects infants’ expectations about how words refer to kinds. Developmental Science, 20(1), e12486, doi: 10.1111/desc.12486   View Online

Byers-Heinlein, K., Behrend, D., Said, L. M., Giris, H., & Poulin-­Dubois, D. (2017). Monolingual and bilingual children’s social preferences for monolingual and bilingual speakers. Developmental Science, 20(4). doi: 10.1111/desc.12392   View Online

da Estrela, C., & Byers-Heinlein, K. (2016). Vois-tu le kem? Do you see the bos? Foreign word learning at 14-months. Infancy, 10(4), 505-521. doi: 10.1111/infa.12126   PDF / View Online

Byers-Heinlein, K., & Garcia, B. (2015). Bilingualism changes children’s beliefs about what is innate. Developmental Science, 18(2), 344–350. doi: 10.1111/desc.12248   PDF / View Online

Byers-Heinlein, K. (2014). High amplitude sucking procedure. In P. J. Brooks, & V. Kempe, [Eds.], Encyclopaedia of Language Development. Thousand Oakes, CA: Sage Publications. 263–264.   PDF / View Online

Byers-Heinlein, K. (2014). Languages as categories: Reframing the “one language or two” question in early bilingual development. Language Learning, 64(s2), 184–201. doi: 10.1111/lang.12055   PDF / View online

Fennell, C. T., & Byers-Heinlein, K. (2014). You sound like Mommy: Bilingual and monolingual infants learn words best from speakers typical of their language environments. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 38(4), 309-316. doi: 10.1177/0165025414530631   PDF / View online

Byers-Heinlein, K., & Fennell, C. T. (2014). Perceptual narrowing in the context of increased variation: Insights from bilingual infants. Developmental   Psychobiology, 65(2), 274–291. doi:10.1002/dev.21167   PDF / View online

Byers-Heinlein, K., Chen, K.H., & Xu, F. (2014). Surmounting the Tower of Babel: Monolingual and bilingual 2-year-olds’ understanding of the nature of foreign languages. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 119, 87-100. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.09.011   PDF / View online

Byers-Heinlein, K., & Lew-Williams, C. (2013). Bilingualism in the early years: What the science says. LEARNing Landscapes, 7(1), 95–112. PDF / View Online

Souza, A., Byers-Heinlein, K., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (2013). Bilingual and monolingual children prefer native-accented speakers. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, 4(953). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00953   PDF / View Online

Byers-Heinlein, K., & Werker, J.F. (2013). Lexicon structure and the disambiguation of novel words: Evidence from bilingual infants. Cognition, 128(3), 407–416. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.05.010   PDF / View online

Byers-Heinlein, K., Fennell, C.T., & Werker, J.F. (2013). The development of associative word learning in monolingual and bilingual infants. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 16(1), 198–205. doi: 10.1017/S1366728912000417   PDF / View online

Byers-Heinlein, K. (2013). Parental language mixing: Its measurement and the relation of mixed input to young bilingual children’s vocabulary size. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 16(1), 32–48. doi: 10.1017/S1366728911000010    PDF / View online   Click here for the Language Mixing Questionnaire

May, L., Byers-Heinlein, K., Gervain, J., & Werker, J.F. (2011). Language and the newborn brain: Does prenatal language experience shape the neonate neural response to speech? Frontiers in Language Sciences, 2(222). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00222   PDF / View online

Curtin, S.A., Byers-Heinlein, K, & Werker, J.F. (2011). Bilingual beginnings as a lens for theory development: PRIMIR in focus. Journal of Phonetics, 39, 492–504. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2010.12.002   PDF / View online

Byers-Heinlein, K., Burns, T.F., & Werker, J.F. (2010). The roots of bilingualism in newborns. Psychological Science, 21(3), 343–348. doi: 10.1177/0956797609360758   PDF / View online

Werker, J.F., Byers-Heinlein, K., & Fennell, C.T. (2009). Bilingual beginnings to learning words. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 3649–3663. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0105   PDF / View online

Byers-Heinlein, K., & Werker, J.F. (2009). Monolingual, bilingual, trilingual: Infants’ language experience influences the development of a word learning heuristic. Developmental Science, 12(5), 815–823. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00902.x   PDF / View online

Werker, J.F., & Byers-Heinlein, K. (2008). Bilingualism in infancy: First steps in perception and comprehension. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12(4), 144–151. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2008.01.008   PDF / View online

Fennell, C.T., Byers-Heinlein, K., & Werker, J.F. (2007). Using speech sounds to guide word learning: The case of bilingual infants. Child Development, 78, 1510–1525. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01080.x   PDF / View online

Byers-Heinlein, K., Hart J., Harisson, T., Matchett, J., & Byers, S. (2004).  Passing the Torch: students teaching students about dating violence. In M.L. Stirling, C.A. Cameron, N. Nason-Clark & B. Miedema. Understanding Abuse: partnering for change. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 297-319.   PD