Publications

*Burkhardt-Reed, M. & Oller, D. K. (2019). Gesture in early communication development: Relative roles of voice and gesture across the first year of life. Presented in a two-hour seminar at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL.

*Jhang, Y., Chang, Y-J., Lin, W-H. & Oller, D. K. (2019). Effects of parental interaction on infant volubility of 4-month-olds: New perspectives from research in Taiwan to compare with prior studies with the still-face paradigm in the USA. Presented in a two-hour seminar at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL.

* Buder, E. H. & Oller, D. K. (2019). Acoustic differentiation of the principal protophones and developmental trends. Presented in a two-hour seminar at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL.

* Yoo, H., Ha, S., Lee, C-C, Ramsay, G. & D. K. Oller (2019). A cross-cultural analysis of clustering of infant vocalizations across the first year of life: Results combined across the Memphis/Emory studies and Hallym University in S. Korea. Presented in a two-hour seminar at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL.

* Farran, L. & Oller, D. K. (2019). Infant-directed-speech and the differential use of baby register and adult register with young children with ASD compared to typically developing children. Presented in a two-hour seminar at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL.

* Long, H. L., Ramsay, G., Burkhardt-Reed, M. M., & Oller, D. K. (2019). Assessing infant vocal production across interactive and non-interactive contexts in ASD and typical development: Preliminary data from the University of Memphis/Emory University sibling study. Presented in a two-hour seminar at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL.

* Oller, D. K., Long, H. L., Iyer, S. N., & Ramsay G. (2019). Vocal development and perspectives on communicative disorders with special focus on ASD: An overview of the seminar. Presented in a two-hour seminar at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL.

*Oller, D. K. (2019). Precursors to Language in ASD and Typical Development. Two-hour seminar at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL.

*Oller, D. K., & Long, H. L. (2019). Endogenous production of vocal precursors to speech across the first year. Boston University Child Language Development conference. Symposium organized by Daniel Swingley. Leaving the Lab: Developmental Hypothesis Testing Using Natural Language Corpora. Boston.

Oller, D. K. & Griebel, U. (2019). Demonstration of AACT for human and other primate vocalizations research. Focus Group at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Klosterneuburg, Austria.

Oller, D. K. (2019). Discussion Talk on Human Infant Vocalizations and Origins of Language. Focus Group at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Klosterneuburg, Austria.

*Yoo, Ramsay & Oller (2019). The development of phonatory control in infant speech-like vocalizations in the first year of life. Presentation at the International Child Phonology Conference. Montreal, Canada.

Yoo, H., Bowman, D. & Oller, D. K. (2018). Timing of parent vocal responses to infant cry and speech-like vocalizations. Oral presentation for the Korean Association of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Gwangju, South Korea.

*Oller, D. K. (2018). The Autism Spectrum & Neurodiversity: New Perspectives on Variability in ASD & Related Conditions. One-hour seminar for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Boston, MA.

*Burkhardt-Reed, M. & Oller, D. K. (2018). Gestural & Vocal Communication During the First Year. Poster for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Boston, MA.

*Long, H., Bowman, D. & Oller, D. K. (2018). Intra- & Intercoder Agreement on Judgments of Imitation in Infant Vocalizations. Poster for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Boston, MA.

*Yoo, H., Ramsay, G. & Oller, D. K. (2018). Caregiver Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) & Infant Volubility in the First Year of Life. Poster for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Boston, MA.

*Jhang, Y., Lee, C-C., Yoo, H. & Oller, D. K. (2018). A Comparison of Canonical Babbling Judged in Real-time & Repeated Listening. Technical paper for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Boston, MA

*Chen, L-M., Oller, D. K., Lee, C-C. & Liu, C-T. (2018). LENA computerized automatic analysis of speech development from birth to three. 30th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING2018). Hsinchu, Taiwan.

*Ha, S., Johnson, C. & Oller, D. K. (2018). Cross-linguistic comparisons of babbling shapes in Korean- and English-learning infants. Paper presented at the International Child Phonology Conference, Chania, Greece.

*Belardi, K., Watson, L.R., Crais, E., Baranek, G.T., & Oller, D.K. (2018). Vocal Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Children with Fragile X Syndrome. Differentiating Vocalizations in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Fragile X Syndrome at 9-12 months. Symposium conducted at the Gatlinburg Conference, San Diego, CA.

*Yoo, H., E. Bene, E. H. Buder, C-C. Lee, M. Burkhardt-Reed, M. van Mersbergen, G. Ramsay, & D. K. Oller (2017). Volubility of infant distress vocalizations across the first year of life: Preliminaries to assessment of risk for language development, paper presented in Vocal development and interaction in the first year: Signs of typical and disordered development, 2-hour seminar for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Los Angeles, CA.

*Burkhardt-Reed, M., U. Griebel, & D. K. Oller (2017). The relative roles of voice, face, and gesture in early communication development: Predominance of face and voice in the first half-year of communicative development, paper presented in Vocal development and interaction in the first year: Signs of typical and disordered development, 2-hour seminar for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Los Angeles, CA.

*Buder, E. H., G. Ramsay, V. F. McDaniel, E. R. Bene & D. K. Oller (2017). Modal and loft registers in infant phonation: Is tension at higher pitches an autism risk indicator? Paper presented in Vocal development and interaction in the first year: Signs of typical and disordered development, 2-hour seminar for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Los Angeles, CA.

*Lee, C-C. & L-M. Chen, H-Y. Hsiao, H. Long, and D. K. Oller (2017). Canonical Babbling Ratio and Vocalization Rate in Typically-developing Infants and Infants at High Risk for Cerebral Palsy, paper presented in Vocal development and interaction in the first year: Signs of typical and disordered development, 2-hour seminar for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Los Angeles, CA.

*Farran, L., D. Bowman, C-C. Lee, H. Yoo, & D. K. Oller. (2017). Vocal responsivity in English-learning and Arabic-learning infants: An unexpected cross-cultural/cross-linguistic difference in timing, paper presented in Vocal development and interaction in the first year: Signs of typical and disordered development, 2-hour seminar for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Los Angeles, CA.

*Long, H. & Oller D. K. (2017). On early adaptive vocalization across the first year: emergence of imitation and signs of disordered development, paper presented in Vocal development and interaction in the first year: Signs of typical and disordered development, 2-hour seminar for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Los Angeles, CA.

*Oller, D. K. (2017). Vocal development and interaction in the first year: Signs of typical and disordered development. 2-hour seminar for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Los Angeles, CA.

*Griebel, U., Call, J., Buder, E. H., & Oller, D. K. (2017). Comparisons of directed gaze during vocalizations in bonobo and human infants. Poster for the Convention of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK.

Oller, D. K. (2016). The importance of human coding in automated vocal analysis. For the Workshop on Corpus Collection, (Semi)-Automated Analysis, and Modeling of Large-Scale Naturalistic Language Acquisition Data, Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Philadelphia.

Warlaumont, A. S., Bergelson, E. and Oller, D. K. (2016). Speech and language corpora development. For the Workshop on Corpus Collection, (Semi)-Automated Analysis, and Modeling of Large-Scale Naturalistic Language Acquisition Data, Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Philadelphia.

*Lee, C-C., Long, H., Jhang, Y., Yoo, H., Chen, L-M., Oller, D. K. (2016). Effects of Social & Non-Social Circumstances on Canonical Babbling Ratios in English- & Chinese-Learning Infants. Poster for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia.

*Farran, L. Yoo, H., Lee, C.C., Oller, D. K. (2016). The Temporal Coordination of Mother-Infant Vocal Interactions Across Speech Registers & Cultures. Poster for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia.

*Yoo, H, Oller, D. K. (2016). Temporal Structure of Turn-Taking in Parent-Infant Dyads: A Naturalistic Study With Zero-Three Month Olds. Poster for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia.

*Long, H., Oller, D. K., Ramsdell-Hudock, H. (2016). Imitative & Vocally Adaptive Behavior in Infants Through 12 Months. Poster for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia.

*Jhang, Yuna, Anne Warlaumont,, Rick Dale, D. Kimbrough Oller (2016). Emergence of Functional Flexibility in Infant Vocalization of the First Three Months. Poster for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia.

Elisabeth Willadsen, Christina Persson, Anette Lohmander, David Kimbrough Oller (2016) Naturalistic assessment in real time of prelinguistic vocalizations by infants with cleft palate, a methodological study. International Cleft Lip and Palate Conference.

*Abney, D., Warlaumont, A. S. Oller, D. K., Wallot, S., Kello, C. (2016). The multiscale clustering of infant vocalization bouts. Paper presentation for the International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans.

*Oller, D. K. (2015). Clues to emergent autism in infant vocalizations. Presentation in symposium Ontogeny of Autism: identification of very early signs of autism spectrum disorders in human and mice for the annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmocology, Hollywood, FL.

*Ramsay, G., Ghai, S., Patel, S. & Oller D. K. (2015). New approaches to the automated analysis of parent-infant prosodic interaction in all-day recordings of infants at risk for ASD over the first two years. Paper in seminar for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Denver, CO.

*Patten, E., Watson, L., Beranek, G., Poon, K., Belardi, K. & Oller D. K. (2015). The relation of joint attention and canonical babbling in infants with ASD and typically developing infants from home movie analysis. Paper in seminar for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Denver, CO.

*Lee, C-C., Farran, L. K., Chen, L-M., Yoo, H., Jhang, Y. & Oller D. K. (2015). Vocal interactions of American and Taiwanese infants and their parents: Infant reactions to infant-directed and adult-directed speech. Paper in seminar for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Denver, CO.

*Farran, L. K., Lee, C-C., Yoo, H., & Oller D. K. (2015).Mother-infant vocal interactions across American and Lebanese cultures: New findings on infant-directed speech. Paper in seminar for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Denver, CO.

*Yoo, H., Buder, E.H., Lee, C-C., & Oller D. K. (2015).Temporal structure of parent vocal responses to infant cry and non-cry vocalizations in the first month of life. Paper in seminar for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Denver, CO.

*Oller D. K. & Ramsay, G. (2015). Overview: Vocal development in the first year: Laying foundations for discovering clues to communication disorders. Paper in seminar for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Denver, CO.

*Buder, E.H., Yoo, H. & Oller D. K. (2015). Characterizing the acoustic properties of non-cry vocalizations in the first year of life. Paper in seminar for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Denver, CO.

*Oller, D. K. (2015). Foundations for Early Detection of Disorders Through Evaluating Infant Vocalization & Parent--Infant Vocal Interaction. 2-hour seminar for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Denver, CO.

*Yoo, H., Buder, E. H., Lee, C-C., Oller, D. K. (2015). Acoustic Properties of Infant Cry & Non-Cry: A New Look at Distress & Non-Distress Sounds. Poster for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Denver, CO.

*McMillen, S., Jarmulowicz, L., Rogers, J., Saunders, A., Oller, D. K. (2105). Objetos y Colores: Longitudinal Rapid Automatic Naming Performance for Young English Language Learners. Poster for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Denver, CO.

*Lee, C-C., Jhang, Y. Yoo, H. Warlaumont, A. S, Dale, R., & Oller, D. K. (2015). Parent & Laboratory Report on the Emergence of Infant Reduplicated & Variegated Babbling. Poster for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Denver, CO.

*Patten, E.P, Belardi, K., Baranek, G.T., Watson, L.W., Oller, D.K (2015). Canonical babbling and volubility in infants later diagnosed with autism: Early markers for ASD, associations with developmental skills and predictors of outcomes. Paper for symposium titled An Update on Vocal Complexity in Infants and Children with ASD, organized by Paul Yoder and Tiffany Woynaroski, Vanderbilt Univ. for the International Meeting for Autism Research, Salt Lake City, UT.

*Yoder, P., Woynaroski, T., Xu, D., Richards, J., Hannon, S., Gray, S., & Oller, D.K. (2015) Looking Under the Hood of the Infraphonological Vocal Complexity Score. Paper for symposium titled An Update on Vocal Complexity in Infants and Children with ASD, organized by Paul Yoder and Tiffany Woynaroski, Vanderbilt Univ. for the International Meeting for Autism Research, Salt Lake City, UT.

*Oller, D. K., Yoder, P., Xu, D., Richards, J., Gilkerson, J., and Gray, S. (2015). Toward improved clinically useful automated vocal assessments for the prediction of ASD. Paper for symposium titled An Update on Vocal Complexity in Infants and Children with ASD, organized by Paul Yoder and Tiffany Woynaroski, Vanderbilt Univ. for the International Meeting for Autism Research, Salt Lake City, UT.

*Woynaroski, T., Oller, D. K., Yoder, P. (2015). Stability and validity of automated vocal analysis as a measure of vocalization complexity in preschoolers with ASD in early stages of language development. Paper for symposium New Developments in Measuring Communication, Chaired by Nancy Brady of the Univ. of KS, Gatlinburg Conference on Mental Retardation, New Orleans, LA.

*Oller, D. K. & Griebel, U. (2015). Vocal development in the human infant and in our closest primate relatives. Paper for symposium, entitled The evolution of human vocal behavior: Comparative, cultural, developmental, and neuroscience perspectives, organized by Greg Bryant of UCLA, for the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, at the Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO.

*Abney, D. H., Warlaumont , A. S., Oller, D. K., Wallot, S., & Kello , C. T. (2015). The multiscale clustering of infant vocalization bouts. Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, CA.

*Skipsey, Maria Boy, Todd A. Gibson, Emily P. Mitchell, Linda Jarmulowicz, & D. Kimbrough Oller (2014). Nonword Repetition Articulation Rate & Accuracy: Relationship With Second Language Vocabulary in Spanish-English Bilingual Kindergartners. Poster for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL

*Lee, Chia-Cheng, Yuna Jhang, Anne Warlaumont, Rick Dale, & D. Kimbrough Oller (2014). Parent Recognition of Infant Reduplicated & Variegated Babbling. Poster for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL

*Jhang, Yuna, Hyunjoo Yoo, & D. Kimbrough Oller (2014). Canonical Babbling Judged in Real Time as a Screening Tool. Technical Research paper for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL

*Yoo, Hyunjoo, Beau Franklin, Yuna Jhang, Edina Bene, & D. Kimbrough Oller (2014). Infant Vocalization in the First Month of Life. Technical Research paper for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL.

*Jhang , Yuna, Chia-Cheng Lee , Anne Warlaumont, Rick Dale , George Relyea , Li-mei Chen , & D. Kimbrough Oller (2014). Emergence & Development of Functional Flexibility in Early Infant Vocalization Based on Diary Reports from American & Taiwanese Parents. Technical Research paper for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL.

*Burrows, Lauren, Linda Jarmulowicz, & D. Kimbrough Oller (2014). English Language Learners' Performance on an English Elision Task in Kindergarten. Poster for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL.

*Oller, D. K. (2014). Infant Vocal Communication: Clues for Emerging Disorders. Seminar for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL.

*Mitchell, Emily P., Todd A. Gibson, Linda Jarmulowicz, & D. Kimbrough Oller (2014). Articulation Rate During Non-Word Repetition Tasks and Its Relationship to Kindergarteners' Vocabulary Knowledge. Poster for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Orlando, FL.

*Warlaumont, A. W., Richards, J., Gilkerson, J., Oller, D. K. (2014, July). A dynamic social feedback loop leading to increased child speech. International Assoc. for the Study of Child Language, Amsterdam.

*Oller, D. K., Griebel, U. (2014, July). Human vocal development and animal communication in an evodevo approach to language. Pan European conference on evolutionary developmental biology (Euro EvoDevo), Vienna, Austria.

*Lee, C.-C., Jhang, Y., Hsueh, Y., & Oller, D. K. (2014, May). Infant vocal imitation of familiar syllables from live and video models. With U. Mueller (Discussant), Confusion, complexity and neglect: Studying imitation in infancy. Symposium conducted at the 44th Annual Meeting of Jean Piaget Society, San Francisco, CA.

*Jhang, Y., Lee, C-.C., Hsueh, Y., & Oller, D. K. (2014, May). Behavior matching and Imitation in Infants: definitions and debates. With U. Mueller (Discussant), Confusion, complexity and neglect: Studying imitation in infancy. Symposium conducted at the 44th Annual Meeting of Jean Piaget Society, San Francisco, CA.

*Burrows, L., Linda Jarmulowicz, D. Kimbrough Oller (2013). Allophony in Bilingual Learners: A Longitudinal Study. Oral presentation for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.

*Franklin, B, Anne Warlaumont, D. Kimbrough Oller (2013). Infant Volubility by Random Sampling From All-Day Recordings. Poster for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.

*Iyer, S. N., D. Kimbrough Oller (2013). Vocalization Rate (Volubility) Across Three Social Contexts in the First Year of Life. Poster for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.

*Lee, Chia-Cheng, Yuna Jhang, Li-mei Chen, D. Kimbrough Oller (2013). Ambient Language Effects in Chinese- & English-Learning Infants at 8, 10, & 12 Months. Poster for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.

*Jhang, Y., Anne Warlaumont, Rick Dale, Heather Ramsdell, Li-Mei Chen, D. Kimbrough Oller (2013). Parent Recognition of Functional Flexibility in Early Infant Vocalization: Diary Report From Taiwanese & American Parents. Poster for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.

*Warlaumont, A. S., Jeffrey A. Richards, Jill Gilkerson, D. Kimbrough Oller (2013). The Role of Adult Responses in Speech-Language Development in Autism: New Evidence From LENA Recordings. Poster for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.

*Oller, D. K., Eugene Buder, Anne S. Warlaumont, Heather Ramsdell, Suneeti Iyer, Barbara Franklin, Chia-Cheng Lee, Yu-Syuan Jhang, Elena Patten, Li-Mei Chen, Grace Baranek, Katie Belardi, Linda Watson, Rick Dale (2013). Infant Vocal Development: The Search for Early Identification of Disorders. Two-hour seminar for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.

*Jhang, Y., Franklin, B., Ramsdell, H., Oller, D. K. (2013). The role of auditory and visual signaling in flexibility of early infant communication. Poster for the annual meeting of the International Child Phonology Conference, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

*Lee, C.-C., Jhang, Y., Chen, L.-M., D. K., Oller. (2013). Effective blinding for observers for study of ambient language effects. Poster for the annual meeting of the International Child Phonology Conference, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Xu, Dongxin, Paul Yoder, Brian A. Boyd, Yiwen Zhang, Fan Jiang, Jeffrey A. Richards, Jill Gilkerson, D. Kimbrough Oller (2013) The Potential of the LENA Audio-based Autism Screen: Comparison among Four Data Sets. LENA Research Conference, Denver.

*Warlaumont, A. S., Westermann, G., Oller, D. K., & Buder, E. H. (2012). A neural network model of infant vocalization learning with reinforcement. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis, MN.

*Warlaumont, A. S., Westermann, G., & Oller, D. K. (2012). A connectionist model of early motor speech development that learns by using reinforcement. Presented at the Neural Computation in Psychology Workshop, San Sebastian, Spain.

Warlaumont, A. S. (2012). Simulating evolution and learning of human vocal signals. Presented at the 2012 DOE CSGF Annual Conference, Arlington, VA.

*Warlaumont, A. S. (2012). Social Feedback loops in vocal motor development. Presented at the Guy Van Orden Workshop on Cognition and Dynamics, VII, Storrs, CT.

*Warlaumont, A. S., Westermann, G. and Oller, D. K. (2012). A connectionist model of early motor speech development that learns by using reinforcement. Presented at the 13th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain.

*Yoder, P. J., Oller, D. K., Richards, J. A., Gray, S., & Gilkerson, J. (2012). Stability and validity of a new vocal complexity measure. International Meeting of Autism Research. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

*Warlaumont, A. S., & Dale, R. (2012). Analysis of interpersonal dynamics in spoken interaction. Given at the TIMELY Training School on Dynamical Systems for Psychological Timing and Timing in Speech Processing, organized by M. A. Elliott, A. Esposito, & A. Vatakis, Salerno, Italy.

*Lee, C.-C., Jhang, Y., Chen, L.-M., D. K., Oller. (2012). Syllabification & Segmentation in English & Mandarin. Poster for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.

*Jhang, Y., Warlaumont, A., Dale, R., Lee, C.-C., Bene, E., Rangisetty, N., Oller, D. K. (2012). Recognition of Infant Vocalizations by Parent Report & Naturalistic Listening. Poster for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.

*Franklin, B., & Oller, D.K., (2012). The Tests for Autism: A Review and Recommendations. Poster for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.

*Franklin, B., Warlaumont, A., Bene, E., Lee, C.C, Lambert, B., Messinger, D., Oller, D.K., (2012). Volubility of Infant Vocalization in Interactive and Non-Interactive Circumstances. Technical Session Paper for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.

*Burrows, L., Jarmulowicz, L., & Oller, D.K. (2012). A longitudinal study of possible allophony interaction in bilingual learners. Poster for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.

*Owren, M. J., Oller, D. Kimbrough, & Buder, E. (session chair) (2012). Seminar: Vocal Control in Human Language: Cross-Species, Neural, & Evolutionary/Developmental Perspectives (Invited). Seminar for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.

Griebel, U. & Oller, D. K. (2012), "My dog understands every word I say": Cognitive underpinnings of language and evidence from the animal kingdom. Paper for the 28th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology. Origins of Complex Communication and Language: Epigenetic Modeling and Ethological Observation. Organized by D. K. Oller, U. Griebel and R. Dale. Altenberg, Austria.

Oller, D. K., Griebel, U. and Warlaumont, A. S. (2012). Vocal development as a guide to modeling the evolution of language. Paper for the 28th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology. Origins of Complex Communication and Language: Epigenetic Modeling and Ethological Observation. Organized by D. K. Oller, U. Griebel and R. Dale. Altenberg, Austria.

*Warlaumont, A. S., Westermann, G. and Oller, D. K. (2012). A connectionist model of early motor speech development that learns by using reinforcement. Presented at the 13th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain.

*Franklin, B., Warlaumont, A. S., Lambert, B., Messinger, D., & Oller, D. K. (2012). Volubility of Infant Vocalization in Face to Face, Still Face, and Reunion. International Child Phonology Conference. Minneapolis, MN.

*Jhang, Y.-S., Lee, C.-C. & Oller, D. K. (2012). An Agenda for the Study of Syllable Development in English and Mandarin. International Child Phonology Conference. Minneapolis, MN.

*Warlaumont, A. S., Dale, R., Buder, E. H., Franklin, B. & Oller, D. K. (2012). Interactive online training and diary systems for caregivers of prelinguistic infants. International Child Phonology Conference. Minneapolis, MN.

*Burrows, L., Jarmulowicz, L. & Oller, D. K. (2012). Allophony interaction in Spanish-English bilingual children. International Child Phonology Conference. Minneapolis, MN.

*Yoder, P. J., Oller, D. K., Richards, J. A., Gray, S., & Gilkerson, J. (2012). Stability and validity of a new vocal complexity measure. International Meeting of Autism Research. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

*Oller D. K. (2011). Automated detection of autism by vocal analysis. Paper presented in Seminar organized by Eugene Buder for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Diego, CA.

*Buder, E. H., Oller D. K., Cleary, J. E., Bradley, A. & Fields, R. (2011). Early positive signs of autism: home- and lab-based findings. Seminar for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Diego, CA.

*Jhang, Y.-S., Oller, D. K., Ramsdell, H., & Franklin, B. (2011). Observer Agreement for Affect Expressed During Infant Vocalization. Poster for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Diego, CA.

*Jarmulowicz, L. & Oller, D. K. (2011). Longitudinal exploration of literacy in bilingual elementary children. Poster for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Diego, CA.

*Franklin, B., Oller, D. K., Ramsdell, H. L., & Jhang, Y. -S. (2011). Affect identification in early infant vocalizations. Poster for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, San Diego, CA.

*Warlaumont, A. S., Oller, D. K., Buder, E. H., Westermann, G. (2011). A computational neural network model of infant vocal learning. Poster presented at the 2011 DOE CSGF Annual Conference, Arlington, Va.

*Warlaumont, A. S., Westermann, G. and Oller, D. K. (2011). Self-production facilitates and adult input interferes in a neural network model of infant vowel imitation. AISB-11Meeting. York, UK. Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behavior.

*Gibson, T. A., Oller, D. K., Jarmulowicz, L. (2011). Nonword repetition and receptive vocabulary in bilingual kindergarteners: Concurrent correlations in a longitudinal study. Meeting of the International Association for Child Language. Montreal.

*Montgomery, J. and Oller, D.K. (2010). LENA Technology: Expanding Research and Clinical Application in Child Language. Preconference symposium for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia, PA.

*Oller, D. K., Jarmulowicz, L., Gibson, T. and Powers A. (2010). New Concepts in Assessment for Bilingual Children . Seminar for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia, PA.

*Jarmulowicz, L., Oller, D. K., Buder, E. H. (2010). L2-L1 Effects in Stops: Spanish-English Bilingual & Monolingual Children. Poster for the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia, PA.

*Anne S. Warlaumont, A. S., Oller, D. K., Dale, R., Gilkerson, J., Richards, J. A., Xu, D. (2010). Vocal Interaction Dynamics of Children With and Without Autism. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Portland, OR.

*Ramsdell, H. L., Oller, D. K. (2010). Individual differences in early vocal development across a sample of 8 infants. International Child Phonology Conference. Memphis, TN.

*Warlaumont, A. S., Oller, D. K. (2010). Assessing the categorical status of pre-speech phonological categories through continuous listener judgments. International Child Phonology Conference. Memphis, TN.

Buder, E. H., Oller, D. K., Bakeman, R. (2010). Vocal repetition increases during the first year of development. International Child Phonology Conference. Memphis, TN.

Pennino, A., Oller, D. K. Jarmulowicz, L. (2010). Monolingual and bilingual Spanish-English children's phonological production on Rapid Automatized Naming Tasks. Poster for the International Child Phonology Conference. Memphis, TN.

Oller, D. K., Powers, A., Jarmulowicz, L. (2010). Phonological correctness and accentedness in early L2 learning: Both L1 and L2 show effects of interference. International Child Phonology Conference. Memphis, TN.

Preston, J. L., Ramsdell, H. L., Oller, D. K., Edwards M. L., Tobin, S. J. (2010) Developing and psychometrically investigating the Weighted Speech Sound Accuracy (WSSA) measure. International Child Phonology Conference. Memphis, TN.

*Warlaumont, A. S., Xu, D., Dale, R., Richards, J. A. Gilkerson, J., Oller, D. K. (2010). Leader-Follower Dynamics of Adult-Child Vocal Interaction in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Presentation for the International Meeting for Autism Research. Philadelphia, PA.

*Xu, D., Gray, S., Richards, J. A. Gilkerson, J., Warren, S. F., Oller, D. K. (2010). Automatic Identification of Children at-Risk for ASD Using Audio Recording. Poster for the International Meeting for Autism Research. Philadelphia, PA.

*Warlaumont, A. S., Oller, D. K., Buder, E. H. (2010). Modeling the perception of infant vocalizations: a comparison of a self-organizing map and principal components analysis. International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.

*Jarmulowicz, L., Oller, D. K., Gibson, T., Reese, L., Goldenberg, C., Powers, A., Mejia-Aruaz R., & Bazan, R. (2009). Rapid language shift in early second language immersion. Seminar presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New Orleans, LA.

*Gibson, T., Jarmulowicz, L., & Oller, D. K. (2009). Children's performance on standardized language tests administered by non-native speakers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New Orleans, LA.

*Montgomery, J. K., Oller, D. K., Gilkerson, J., Shubin, J., Richards, J. A., Xu, D., Gray, S., & Yapanel, U. (2009). ASD Screening: Automatic Analysis of Child Vocalizations in Natural Environments. Seminar presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New Orleans, LA.

*Ramsdell, H.L. & Oller, D.K. (2009). The phonetic nature of early phonological categories. Seminar presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New Orleans, LA.

*Buder, E. H., Oller, D. K., Parham, D. & Doiuchi, M. (2009). Development of Respiratory & Phonatory Control in Infancy. Seminar presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New Orleans, LA.

*Kwon, K. Oller, D. K., Buder, E. H. (2009). Systematic vocal repetition in infant vocalizations. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New Orleans, LA.

*Oller, D. K., Gray, S., Richards, J. A. Gilkerson, J., Warren, S. F., & Niyogi, P. (2009). Evaluating naturalistic home recordings: Automated analysis of acoustic features of infant sounds. Paper Symposium organized by Stephen Sheinkopf : Automated assessment of vocal communicative environments: developmental and clinical potentials. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Denver, CO.

*Kwon, K. Oller, D. K., Buder, E. H., Cleary, J. E., Sheinkopf, S. & Mundy, P. (2008). Pitch in prelinguistic vocalizations of children with autism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL

*Ramsdell, H. & Oller, D.K. (2008). The emergence of phonological categories: Raw material and negotiable product. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL

*Preston, J., Ramsdell, H., & Oller, D. K. (2008). Preliminary investigation of a weighted measure of speech sound accuracy. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL

*Wallace, M. C., Cleary, J. E., Buder, E. H., Oller, D. K., Sheinkopf, S. & Mundy, P. (2008). An acoustical analysis of vocalizations in children with autism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL

*Warlaumont, A., Oller, D. K., Buder, E. H., & Kwon, K. (2008). A self-organizing neural network for classification of infants' preverbal vocalizations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL

*Oller, D. K. (2008). Evaluating early child language input and language learning: New tools for naturalistic sampling and assessment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL

*Oller, D. K., Gibson, T., Jarmulowicz, L., & Powers, A. (2008). Rapid language shift in early second language learning: An evolutionary perspective. Meeting of the International Society for Human Ethology, Bologna, Italy.

*Oller, D. K., Ramsdell, H. L. (2008). The creation of phonological categories and the negotiation of word meanings in early lexical development. International Association for the Study Child Language. Edinburgh, Scotland.

*Ramsdell, H. L., Buder, E. H., Oller, D. K. & Chorna, L. (2008). Acoustic criteria for canonicity in infants' syllables. Paper presentation for the International Child Phonology Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

*Warlaumont, A., Oller, D. K., Buder, E. H. & Dale. R. (2008). Using self-organizing neural networks to classify and model the perception of infant vocalizations. Paper presentation for the International Child Phonology Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

*Warlaumont, A., Oller, D. K., Buder, E. H., Kozma, R., Dale, R. (2008). Analysis of infant vocalizations using a self-organizing map. Poster presentation for the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, DC.

*Oller, D. K. (2008). Rapid language shift in early second language learning: An evolutionary perspective. Meeting of the International Society for Human Ethology, Bologna, Italy.

*Oller, D. K., Ramsdell, H. L. (2008). The creation of phonological categories and the negotiation of word meanings in early lexical development. International Association for the Study Child Language. Edinburgh, Scotland.

*Pearson, B. Z., Oller, D. K., Gibson, T. A., Resende, R. (2008). Qualitative issues in bilingual children's minority language input. International Association for the Study Child Language. Edinburgh, Scotland.

*Wallace, M. C., Cleary, J., Buder, E., Oller, D. K., Sheinkopf, S, Mundy, P. (2008). An Acoustic Inspection of Vocalizations in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Poster for the International Meeting for Autism Research. London, UK.

*Ramsdell, H. L., Oller, D. K. & Buder, E. H. (2007). Defining the canonical syllable in acoustic terms. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Boston, MA.

*Gibson, T., Jarmulowicz, L. & Oller, D.K. (2007) L1 suppression in Spanish-English bilingual kindergartners. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Boston, MA.

*Kwon, K., Oller, D K. & Buder, E.H. (2007) Evidence of systematic repetition in infant vocalizations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Boston, MA.

and negotiable phonological product. Paper for the International Child Phonology Conference. Seattle, WA.

*Ramsdell, H. & Oller, D. K. (2007). Early empirical results on the emergence of phonological categories: Raw phonological material

*Kwon, K., Buder, E. H., Oller, D. K. & Chorna, L. B. (2007). Classifying Infant Vocalizations Based on Fundamental Frequency (f0). Paper for the International Child Phonology Conference. Seattle, WA.

*Ramsdell, H. and Oller, D.K. (2006, November). Reliability assessment in infant vocal development. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, in special Symposium, A cross-section of research in the phonetic sciences. Miami, FL.

*Nathani, S., Oller, D. K., and Reinstein, E. (2006, November). Protophone development in typical and deaf infants. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Miami, FL.

*Nathani, S., Oller, D. K., and Reinstein, E. (2006, November). Pitch development in typical and deaf infants. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Miami, FL.

*Kwon, K. Buder, E.H., Oller, D.K., & Chorna, L.B. (2006, November). The role of fundamental frequency characteristics in classifying prebabbling vocalizations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Miami, FL.

*Kwon, K., Buder, E.H., & Oller, D.K. (2006, June). Contextual flexibility in precanonical infant vocalizations: Its role as a foundation for speech. Paper presented at the 2006 International Child Phonology Conference, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

*Oller, D. K., Jarmulowicz, L., Gibson, T. and Hoff, E. (November, 2006). First language vocabulary suppression in early bilinguals during language immersion. Boston University Child Language Conference, Boston, MA.

*Oller, D.K. (June, 2006). Monitoring early vocal development in infants and young children. International conference on cochlear implants. Vienna, Austria.

*Oller, D. K. and Buder, E. H. (December, 2005). Evolutionary implications of vocal development in the first half-year of life. International conference on Emerging Language Abilities. Lyon, France.

*Ramsdell, H. and Oller, D. K. (November, 2005). Item Analysis for Transcription of Infant Vocalizations. Paper for the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, San Diego.

*Oller, D.K. (November, 2005). Phonetic Transcription and Infant Vocalization, Coding in Phonological Assessment. Seminar for the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, San Diego.

Pearson, B. Z., Oller, D. K., and Cobo-Lewis, A. B. (October, 2005). Spanish as an initial teaching alphabet for young ESL learners. 28th Second Language Research Forum, Columbia University, New York, NY.

* Ramsdell, H. and Oller, D. K. (June, 2005). Reliability in Transcription and Coding of Infant Vocalizations. International Child Phonology Conference, Fort Worth, TX.

*Oller, D. K. and Ramsdell, H. (June, 2005). Infant-caregiver negotiation over sound-meaning correspondences in early vocal communication. International Child Phonology Conference, Fort Worth, TX.

*Buder, E., Milenkovic, P., Green, P., Boilek, C., Oller, D. K., Pathak, H., Delgado, R. & Chorna, L. (November, 2004). New Methods and New Questions in Infant Vocal Development. Seminar for the American Speech-Language Hearing Association convention, Philadelphia.

*Oller, D. K. (November, 2004). Phonetic Transcription and Infant Vocalization, Coding in Phonological Assessment. Seminar for the American Speech-Language Hearing Association convention, Philadelphia.

*Price, J. Pollock, K. and Oller, D. K. (November, 2004). Infraphonological and phonological development in six children adopted from China. Poster for the American Speech-Language Hearing Association convention, Philadelphia.

*Griebel, U. and Oller, D. K. (July, 2004). A comparative perspective on contextual freedom in communication. International Society for Human Ethology, Gent, Belgium.

*Oller, D. K. and LaFreniere, P. (July, 2004). Foundations of human communication: Vocalization and emotional expression in the first six months. International Society for Human Ethology, Gent, Belgium.

*Oller, D. K., Cobo-Lewis, A. B. & Pearson, B. Z. (March, 2004). Profiles in early bilingual learning: vocabulary acquisition and the distributed characteristic. Paper presented at the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistic Association, Lafayette, LA.

*Oller, D. K. (2004, February). Profile effects in bilingual children's language and literacy performance. Paper presented in the Symposium organized by Eilers and Oller, for the National Association of Bilingual Education Convention, Albuquerque.

*Eilers R. E. & Oller, D. K. (2004, February). Literacy and language in bilingual children: a multifaceted study of two-way education. Symposium for the National Association of Bilingual Education Convention, Albuquerque.

*Oller, D. K., Buder, E. H., Nathani, S. (2003, November). Origins of speech: How infant vocalizations provide a foundation. Miniseminar for the American Speech-Language Hearing Association convention, Chicago.

*Buder, E. H., Oller, D. K., & Magoon, J. (2003, August). Vocal intensity and phonatory regimes in the development of infant protophones. International Conference of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain.

*Oller, D.K. (2003, May). The distributed characteristic in bilingual learning: effects in various realms of grammar. Paper presented in the colloquium Bilingual learning: Differentiation, carry-over, and the distributed characteristic at the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Tempe, AZ.

*Pearson, B. Z., Cobo-Lewis, A. B. & Oller, D. K. (2003, May). Bilingual phonetic adaptation in early meaningful speech and babbling: Evidence from unintelligible utterances. Paper presented in the colloquium Bilingual learning: Differentiation, carry-over, and the distributed characteristic at the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Tempe, AZ.

*Oller, D. K. (2003, May). Bilingual learning: Differentiation, carry-over, and the distributed characteristic. Colloquium for the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Tempe, AZ.

*Eilers, R. E. & Oller, D.K. (2003, April). Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children: The Miami Experience. Symposium for the Society for Research in Child Development. Tampa, FL.

*Oller, D.K. and Pearson, B. Z. (2002, November). Assessment of bilingual children's oral language and school success, Miniseminar for the American Speech-Language Hearing Association annual convention, Atlanta.

*Oller, D.K. (2002, August). Functions of human infant vocalization: natural selection and survivability. International Society for Human Ethology conference. Montreal, CA.

Nathani, S., Buder, E., and Oller, D.K. (2002, May). Acoustic characterization of precanonical infant vocalizations. Child Phonology conference, Wichita, KS.

Oller, D.K. (2002, May). Child phonology in the perspective of interspecies comparison and evolutionary theory. Invited address to the Child Phonology conference, Wichita, KS.

*Oller, D.K. (2001, November). Groundwork for a theory of the evolution of the speech capacity. Paper presented in symposium in memory of Rachel E. Stark for the Annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (organized by Suneeti Nathani), New Orleans.

*Oller, D. K. (August, 2001). Vocal development and evolution of speech. Poster presentation at the XXVII International Ethological Conference, Tübingen, Germany.

Nathani, S., Neal, A. R., Olds, H., Brill, J. & Oller, D. K. (April, 2001). Canonical babbling and volubility in infants with moderate to severe hard of hearing. Child Phonology Conference, Boston, MA.

Pearson, B. Z., Navarro, A. M., Oller, D. K. & Cobo-Lewis, A. B. (April, 2001). Ambient language effects on syllable shape at 11 months. Child Phonology Conference, Boston, MA.

*Oller, D.K., Nathani, S. & Delgado, R. E. (2000, November). Standardized training for phonetic transcription and coding of infant vocalizations. Computer Laboratory for the Annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Washington, DC.

Cobo-Lewis, A., Vergara, K., Oller, K., Pipho, M., Escobar Shashaty, M., & Eilers, R. (2000, May). Speech perception through the nineties: A longitudinal examination of deaf children's minimal-pairs performance by ear and by taction. Paper presented at the biennial International Sensory Aids Conference, Exeter, England.

Oller, D. K. & Nathani, S. (2000, August). Hierarchical coding of vocalization: computer-based training and reliability. Measuring Behavior, 2000: Third International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Oller, D. K (2000, June). Transcription and categorization of infant vocalization. Child Phonology Conference, Cedar Rapids, IA.

Nathani, S., Lynch, M. P., & Oller, D. K. (2000, June). Rhythmic organization in typical and deaf prelinguistic vocalizations. Child Phonology Conference, Cedar Rapids, IA.

*Nathani, S., Oller, D. K., & Cobo-Lewis, A. (2000, June). Vocal development in typical and deaf infants. Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

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