Dr. Redford investigates spoken language production from a developmental perspective. Her research is motivated by fundamental questions, including: How do thoughts become the action that is speech? What does this process entail for speech sound representations? How are these representations shaped by development and experience? Her research aim is to generate an understanding of typical and atypical speech production that synthesizes findings from different subfields of linguistics and bridges the disciplinary divide in the study of speech and language.
Selected Publications:
Davis, M. & Redford, M.A. (2023). Learning and change in a dual lexicon model of speech production. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Speech and Language, 17(48). doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.893785
Kallay, J.E., Dilley, L., & Redford, M.A. (2022). Prosodic development during the early school-aged years. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(11), 4025-4046. doi: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00124
Howson, P.J., Kallay, J.E., & Redford, M.A. (2021). A psycholinguistic method for measuring coarticulation in child and adult speech. Behavior Research Methods, 53(2), 846-863. doi: 10.3758/s13428-020-01464-7
Redford, M.A. (2019). Speech production from a developmental perspective. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62, 2946–2962. doi: 10.1044/2019_JSLHR-S-CSMC7-18-0130
