Professor Paola Escudero Neyra

Professor Paola Escudero Neyra

Director of Research,
MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development

Professor in Linguistics,
MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development

Professor in Linguistics,
MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development

Biography

Academic name: Paola Escudero

Website: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/marcs/about/our_people/researchers/professor_paola_escudero

Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bEGQfLgAAAAJ&hl=nl

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Qualifications

  • PhD Utrecht University
  • MA Sc University of Edinburgh

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development
  • MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development
  • MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development

Contact

Email: Paola.Escudero@westernsydney.edu.au
Phone: (02) 9772 6493
Mobile:
Location: U.5.62
Westmead

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Publications

Books

  • Colantoni, L., Steele, J. and Escudero, P. (2015), 'Second Language Speech: Theory and Practice', : Cambridge University Press 9781107018341.
  • Escudero, P. (2005), 'Linguistic Perception and Second Language Acquisition: Explaining the acquisition of optimal phonological categorization', : Utrecht University 9076864802.

Chapters in Books

  • Elvin, J., Williams, D. and Escudero, P. (2020), 'Learning to perceive, produce and recognise words in a non-native language : Australian English vs. European Spanish learners of Brazilian Portuguese', Linguistic Approaches to Portuguese as an Additional Language, John Benjamins Publishing 9789027205001.
  • Elvin, J., Vasiliev, P. and Escudero, P. (2019), 'Production and perception in the acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese', Romance Phonetics and Phonology, Oxford University Press 9780198739401.
  • Elvin, J. and Escudero, P. (2019), 'Cross-linguistic influence in second language speech : implications for learning and teaching', Cross-Linguistic Influence: From Empirical Evidence to Classroom Practice, Springer 9783030220655.
  • Curtin, S., Hufnagle, D., Mulak, K. and Escudero, P. (2017), 'Speech perception : development', Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology, Elsevier 9780128093245.
  • Escudero, P. (2014), 'Phoneme discrimination', Encyclopedia of Language Development, Sage 9781452258768.
  • Vasiliev, P. and Escudero, P. (2013), 'Speech perception in second language Spanish', The Handbook of Spanish Second Language Acquisition, Wiley-Blackwell 9780470674437.
  • Escudero, P. (2011), 'Insights from Acquisition and Learning - Speech Processing in Bilingual and Multilingual Listeners: The Relation between Sound Perception and Word Recognition', The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology, Oxford University Press 9780199575039.
  • Escudero, P. and Benders, T. (2010), 'Phonetic and phonological approaches to early word recognition: Empirical findings, methodological issues, and theoretical implications', The Linguistics Enterprise: From knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics, John Benjamins 9789027255334.
  • Escudero, P. (2009), 'Linguistic Perception of "similar" L2 sounds', Phonology in Perception, 9783110219227.
  • Boersma, P. and Escudero, P. (2008), 'Learning to perceive a smaller L2 vowel inventory: An Optimality Theory account', Contrast in phonology: Theory, Perception, Acquisition, Mouton de Gruyter 9783110198218.
  • Escudero, P. (2007), 'Second Language Phonology: The Role of Perception', Phonology in context, Macmillan 9781403935366.
  • Escudero, P. (2006), 'The phonological and phonetic development of new vowel contrasts in Spanish learners of English', English with a Latin Beat: Studies in Portuguese/Spanish-English Interphonology, John Benjamins 9789027241429.

Journal Articles

  • Armstrong, S., Copland, D., Escudero, P. and Angwin, A. (2024), '[In Press] Tracking the acquisition and retention of novel word representations : an ERP study', Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, .
  • Williams, D., Agabeyoglu, T., Gafos, A. and Escudero, P. (2024), 'Acoustic similarity predicts vowel phoneme detection in an unfamiliar regional accent : evidence from monolinguals, bilinguals and second-language learners', Languages, vol 9, no 2 .
  • Yazawa, K., Konishi, T., Whang, J., Escudero, P. and Kondo, M. (2023), 'Spectral and temporal implementation of Japanese speakers' English vowel categories : a corpus-based study', Laboratory Phonology, vol 14, no 1 , pp 1 - 33.
  • Escudero, P., Diskin-Holdaway, C., Pino Escobar, G. and Hajek, J. (2023), '[In Press] Needs and demands for heritage language support in Australia : results from a nationwide survey', Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, .
  • Escudero, P., Smit, E. and Angwin, A. (2023), 'Investigating orthographic versus auditory cross-situational word learning with online and laboratory-based testing', Language Learning, vol 73, no 2 , pp 543 - 577.
  • Pino Escobar, G., Tuninetti, A., Antoniou, M. and Escudero, P. (2023), 'Understanding preschoolers' word learning success in different scenarios : disambiguation meets statistical learning and ebook reading', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 14 .
  • Liu, X. and Escudero, P. (2023), '[In Press] How bidialectalism affects non-native speech acquisition : evidence from Shanghai and Mandarin Chinese', Applied Psycholinguistics, .
  • Yazawa, K., Whang, J. and Escudero, P. (2023), 'Australian English listeners' perception of Japanese vowel length reveals underlying phonological knowledge', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 14 .
  • Smit, E., Milne, A. and Escudero, P. (2022), 'Music perception abilities and ambiguous word learning : is there cross-domain transfer in nonmusicians?', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 13 .
  • Liu, L., Yuan, C., Ong, J., Tuninetti, A., Antoniou, M., Cutler, A. and Escudero, P. (2022), 'Learning to perceive non-native tones via distributional training : effects of task and acoustic cue weighting', Brain Sciences, vol 12, no 5 .
  • Escudero, P., Smit, E. and Mulak, K. (2022), 'Explaining L2 lexical learning in multiple scenarios : cross-situational word learning in L1 Mandarin L2 English speakers', Brain Sciences, vol 12, no 12 .
  • Jones-Diaz, C., Cardona, B. and Escudero, P. (2022), '[In Press] Exploring the perceptions of early childhood educators on the delivery of multilingual education in Australia : challenges and opportunities', Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, .
  • Escudero, P. and Hayes-Harb, R. (2022), 'The Ontogenesis Model may provide a useful guiding framework, but lacks explanatory power for the nature and development of L2 lexical representation', Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, vol 25, no 2 , pp 212 - 213.
  • Chladkova, K., Boersma, P. and Escudero, P. (2022), 'Unattended distributional training can shift phoneme boundaries', Bilingualism, vol 25, no 5 , pp 827 - 840.
  • Angwin, A., Armstrong, S., Fisher, C., Escudero, P. and Escudero, P. (2022), 'Acquisition of novel word meaning via cross situational word learning : an event-related potential study', Brain and Language, vol 229 .
  • Sarvasy, H., Li, W., Elvin, J. and Escudero, P. (2022), 'Vowel acoustics of Nungon child-directed speech, adult dyadic conversation, and foreigner-directed monologues', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 13 .
  • Elvin, J., Williams, D., Shaw, J., Best, C. and Escudero, P. (2021), 'The role of acoustic similarity and non-native categorisation in predicting non-native discrimination : Brazilian Portuguese vowels by English vs. Spanish listeners', Languages, vol 6, no 1 .
  • Escudero, P., Pino Escobar, G., Pino Escobar, G., Casey, C. and Sommer, K. (2021), 'Four-year-old's online versus face-to-face word learning via ebooks', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 12 .
  • Mulak, K., Sarvasy, H., Tuninetti, A. and Escudero, P. (2021), 'Word learning in the field : adapting a laboratory-based task for testing in remote Papua New Guinea', PLoS One, vol 16, no 9 .
  • Colantoni, L., Escudero, P., Marrero-Aguiar, V. and Steele, J. (2021), 'Evidence-based design principles for Spanish pronunciation teaching', Frontiers in Communication, vol 6 .
  • Yazawa, K., Whang, J., Kondo, M. and Escudero, P. (2020), 'Language-dependent cue weighting : an investigation of perception modes in L2 learning', Second Language Research, vol 36, no 4 , pp 557 - 581.
  • Escudero, P. and Kalashnikova, M. (2020), 'Infants use phonetic detail in speech perception and word learning when detail is easy to perceive', Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol 190 .
  • Sarvasy, H., Elvin, J., Li, W. and Escudero, P. (2020), 'An acoustic phonetic description of Nungon vowels', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 147, no 4 .
  • Jones, C., Collyer, E., Fejo, J., Khamchuang, C., Painter, A., Rosas, L., Mattock, K., Dunajcik, A., Escudero, P. and Dwyer, A. (2020), 'Developing a parent vocabulary checklist for young Indigenous children growing up multilingual in the Katherine region of Australia's Northern Territory', International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, vol 22, no 5 , pp 583 - 590.
  • Liu, L., Escudero, P., Quattropani, C. and Robbins, R. (2020), 'Factors affecting infant toy preferences : age, gender, experience, motor development, and parental attitude', Infancy, vol 25, no 5 , pp 593 - 617.
  • Escudero, P., Jones-Diaz, C., Hajek, J., Wigglesworth, G. and Smit, E. (2020), 'Probability of heritage language use at a supportive early childhood setting in Australia', Frontiers in Education, vol 5 .
  • Tuninetti, A., Mulak, K. and Escudero, P. (2020), 'Cross-situational word learning in two foreign languages : effects of native language and perceptual difficulty', Frontiers in Communication, vol 5 .
  • Mulak, K., Vlach, H. and Escudero, P. (2019), 'Cross-situational learning of phonologically overlapping words across degrees of ambiguity', Cognitive Science, vol 43, no 5 .
  • Liu, L., Ong, J., Tuninetti, A. and Escudero, P. (2018), 'One way or another : evidence for perceptual asymmetry in pre-attentive learning of non-native contrasts', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 9 .
  • Kalashnikova, M., Escudero, P. and Kidd, E. (2018), 'The development of fast-mapping and novel word retention strategies in monolingual and bilingual infants', Developmental Science, vol 21, no 6 .
  • Pino Escobar, G., Pino Escobar, G., Kalashnikova, M. and Escudero, P. (2018), 'Vocabulary matters! : the relationship between verbal fluency and measures of inhibitory control in monolingual and bilingual children', Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol 170 , pp 177 - 189.
  • Williams, D., Escudero, P. and Gafos, A. (2018), 'Spectral change and duration as cues in Australian English listeners' front vowel categorization', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 144, no 3 , pp 215 - 221.
  • Elvin, J., Tuninetti, A. and Escudero, P. (2018), 'Non-native dialect matters : the perception of European and Brazilian Portuguese vowels by Californian English monolinguals and Spanish-English bilinguals', Languages, vol 3, no 3 .
  • Alispahic, S., Mulak, K. and Escudero, P. (2017), 'Acoustic properties predict perception of unfamiliar Dutch vowels by adult Australian English and Peruvian Spanish listeners', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 8 .
  • Mulak, K., Bonn, C., Chladkova, K., Aslin, R. and Escudero, P. (2017), 'Indexical and linguistic processing by 12-month-olds : discrimination of speaker, accent and vowel differences', PLoS One, vol 12, no 5 .
  • Kriengwatana, B. and Escudero, P. (2017), 'Directional asymmetries in vowel perception of adult nonnative listeners do not change over time with experience', Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, vol 60, no 4 , pp 1088 - 1093.
  • Tuninetti, A., Chladkova, K., Peter, V., Schiller, N. and Escudero, P. (2017), 'When speaker identity is unavoidable : neural processing of speaker identity cues in natural speech', Brain and Language, vol 174 , pp 42 - 49.
  • Ong, J., Burnham, D., Escudero, P. and Stevens, C. (2017), 'Effect of linguistic and musical experience on distributional learning of nonnative lexical tones', Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, vol 60, no 10 , pp 2769 - 2780.
  • Escudero, P., Mulak, K., Elvin, J. and Traynor, N. (2017), '"Mummy, keep it steady" : phonetic variation shapes word learning at 15 and 17 months', Developmental Science, vol 21, no 5 .
  • Giezen, M., Escudero, P. and Baker, A. (2016), 'Rapid learning of minimally different words in five- to six-year-old children : effects of acoustic salience and hearing impairment', Journal of Child Language, vol 43, no 2 , pp 310 - 337.
  • Escudero, P., Mulak, K. and Vlach, H. (2016), 'Cross-situational learning of minimal word pairs', Cognitive Science, vol 40, no 2 , pp 455 - 465.
  • Kriengwatana, B., Terry, J., Chladkova, K. and Escudero, P. (2016), 'Speaker and accent variation are handled differently : evidence in native and non-native listeners', PLoS One, vol 11, no 6 .
  • Kashima, E., Williams, D., Ellison, T., Schokkin, D. and Escudero, P. (2016), 'Uncovering the acoustic vowel space of a previously undescribed language : the vowels of Nambo', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 139, no 6 , pp 252 - 256.
  • Elvin, J., Williams, D. and Escudero, P. (2016), 'Dynamic acoustic properties of monophthongs and diphthongs in Western Sydney Australian English', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 140, no 1 , pp 576 - 581.
  • Ong, J., Burnham, D., Stevens, C. and Escudero, P. (2016), 'Naive learners show cross-domain transfer after distributional learning: the case of lexical and musical pitch', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 7, no AUG .
  • Escudero, P., Mulak, K., Fu, C. and Singh, L. (2016), 'More limitations to monolingualism : bilinguals outperform monolinguals in implicit word learning', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 7 .
  • Escudero, P., Mulak, K. and Vlach, H. (2016), 'Infants encode phonetic detail during cross-situational word learning', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 7 .
  • Elvin, J., Williams, D. and Escudero, P. (2016), 'The relationship between perception and production of Brazilian Portuguese vowels in European Spanish monolinguals', Loquens: Spanish Journal of Speech Sciences, vol 3, no 2 .
  • Kriengwatana, B., Escudero, P. and Cate, C. (2015), 'Revisiting vocal perception in non-human animals : a review of vowel discrimination, speaker voice recognition, and speaker normalization', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 5 .
  • Escudero, P. (2015), 'Orthography plays a limited role when learning the phonological forms of new words : the case of Spanish and English learners of novel Dutch words', Applied Psycholinguistics, vol 36, no 1 , pp 7 - 22.
  • Bassetti, B., Escudero, P. and Hayes-Harb, R. (2015), 'Second language phonology at the interface between acoustic and orthographic input', Applied Psycholinguistics, vol 36, no 1 , pp 1 - 6.
  • Chladkova, K., Escudero, P. and Lipski, S. (2015), 'When "AA" is long but "A" is not short : speakers who distinguish short and long vowels in production do not necessarily encode a short-long contrast in their phonological lexicon', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 6 .
  • Giezen, M. and Escudero, P. (2015), 'Luisteraars maken de balans op : akoestische cue-weging tijdens klankherkenning', Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, vol 20, no 1 .
  • van Leussen, J. and Escudero, P. (2015), 'Learning to perceive and recognize a second language : the L2LP model revised', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 6 .
  • Ong, J., Burnham, D. and Escudero, P. (2015), 'Distributional learning of lexical tones : a comparison of attended vs unattended listening', PLoS One, vol 10, no 7 .
  • Kriengwatana, B., Escudero, P., Kerkhoven, A. and Cate, C. (2015), 'A general auditory bias for handling speaker variability in speech? : evidence in humans and songbirds', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 6 .
  • Escudero, P., Sisinni, B. and Grimaldi, M. (2014), 'The effect of vowel inventory and acoustic properties in Salento Italian learners of Southern British English vowels', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 135, no 3 , pp 1577 - 1584.
  • Giezen, M., Baker, A. and Escudero, P. (2014), 'Relationships between spoken word and sign processing in children with cochlear implants', Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, vol 19, no 1 , pp 107 - 125.
  • Escudero, P., Simon, E. and Mulak, K. (2014), 'Learning words in a new language : orthography doesn't always help', Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, vol 17, no 2 , pp 384 - 395.
  • Ter Schure, S., Mandell, D., Escudero, P., Raijmakers, M. and Johnson, S. (2014), 'Learning stimulus-location associations in 8- and 11-month-old infants : multimodal versus unimodal information', Infancy, vol 19, no 5 , pp 476 - 495.
  • Escudero, P. and Williams, D. (2014), 'Distributional learning has immediate and long-lasting effects', Cognition, vol 133, no 2 , pp 408 - 413.
  • Williams, D. and Escudero, P. (2014), 'Native and non-native speech perception', Acoustics Australia, vol 42, no 2 , pp 79 - 83.
  • Escudero, P., Best, C., Kitamura, C. and Mulak, K. (2014), 'Magnitude of phonetic distinction predicts success at early word learning in native and non-native accents', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 5 .
  • Elvin, J., Escudero, P. and Vasiliev, P. (2014), 'Spanish is better than English for discriminating Portuguese vowels : acoustic similarity versus vowel inventory size', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 5 .
  • Williams, D. and Escudero, P. (2014), 'Influences of listeners' native and other dialects on cross-language vowel perception', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 5 .
  • Williams, D. and Escudero, P. (2014), 'A cross-dialectal acoustic comparison of vowels in Northern and Southern British English', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 136, no 5 , pp 2751 - 2761.
  • Wanrooij, K., Escudero, P. and Raijmakers, M. (2013), 'What do listeners learn from exposure to a vowel distribution? : an analysis of listening strategies in distributional learning', Journal of Phonetics, vol 41, no 5 , pp 307 - 319.
  • Escudero, P., Broersma, M. and Simon, E. (2013), 'Learning words in a third language : effects of vowel inventory and language proficiency', Language and Cognitive Processes, vol 28, no 6 , pp 746 - 761.
  • Escudero, P., Robbins, R. and Johnson, S. (2013), 'Sex-related preferences for real and doll faces versus real and toy objects in young infants and adults', Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol 116, no 2 , pp 367 - 379.
  • Chladkova, K., Escudero, P. and Lipski, S. (2013), 'Pre-attentive sensitivity to vowel duration reveals native phonology and predicts learning of second-language sounds', Brain and Language, vol 126, no 3 , pp 243 - 252.
  • Gillespie-Lynch, K., Elias, R., Escudero, P., Hutman, T. and Johnson, S. (2013), 'Atypical gaze following in autism : a comparison of three potential mechanisms', Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, vol 43, no 12 , pp 2779 - 2792.
  • Chladkova, K. and Escudero, P. (2012), 'Comparing vowel perception and production in Spanish and Portuguese : European versus Latin American dialects', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 131, no 2 , pp 119 - 125.
  • Escudero, P., Simon, E. and Mitterer, H. (2012), 'The perception of English front vowels by North Holland and Flemish listeners : acoustic similarity predicts and explains cross-linguistic and L2 perception', Journal of Phonetics, vol 40, no 2 , pp 280 - 288.
  • Ohms, V., Escudero, P., Lammers, K. and Ten Cate, C. (2012), 'Zebra finches and Dutch adults exhibit the same cue weighting bias in vowel perception', Animal Cognition, vol 15, no 2 , pp 155 - 161.
  • Escudero, P. and Williams, D. (2012), 'Native dialect influences second-language vowel perception : Peruvian versus Iberian Spanish learners of Dutch', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 131, no 5 , pp 406 - 412.
  • Lipski, S., Escudero, P. and Benders, T. (2012), 'Language experience modulates weighting of acoustic cues for vowel perception : an event-related potential study', Psychophysiology, vol 49, no 5 , pp 638 - 650.
  • Benders, T., Escudero, P. and Sjerpa, M. (2012), 'The interrelation between acoustic context effects and available response categories in speech sound categorization', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 131, no 4 , pp 3079 - 3087.
  • Escudero, P. and Williams, D. (2011), 'Perceptual assimilation of Dutch vowels by Peruvian Spanish listeners', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 129, no 1 , pp 1 - 7.
  • Chladkova, K., Escudero, P. and Boersma, P. (2011), 'Context-specific acoustic differences between Peruvian and Iberian Spanish vowels', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 130, no 1 , pp 416 - 428.
  • Escudero, P. and Vasiliev, P. (2011), 'Cross-language acoustic similarity predicts perceptual assimilation of Canadian English and Canadian French vowels', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 130, no 5 , pp 277 - 283.
  • Escudero, P., Benders, T. and Wanrooij, K. (2011), 'Enhanced bimodal distributions facilitate the learning of second language vowels', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 130, no 4 , pp 206 - 212.
  • Giezen, M., Escudero, P. and Baker, A. (2010), 'Use of acoustic cues by children with cochlear implants', Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, vol 53, no 6 , pp 1440 - 1457.
  • Escudero, P. and Chladkova, K. (2010), 'Spanish listeners' perception of American and Southern British English vowels: Different initial stages for L2 development', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 128, no 5 , pp 254 - 260.
  • Escudero, P. and Wanrooij, K. (2010), 'The Effect of L1 Orthography on Non-native Vowel Perception', Language & Speech, vol 53, no 3 , pp 343 - 365.
  • Mayr, R. and Escudero, P. (2010), 'Explaining individual variation in L2 perception : rounded vowels in English learners of German', Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, vol 13, no 3 , pp 279 - 297.
  • Escudero, P., Benders, T. and Lipski, S. (2009), 'Native, non-native and L2 perceptual cue weighting for Dutch vowels: The case of Dutch, German, and Spanish listeners', Journal of Phonetics, vol 37, no 4 , pp 452 - 465.
  • Escudero, P., Boersma, P., Rauber, A. and Bion, R. (2009), 'A cross-dialectal acoustic description of vowels: Brazilian and European Portuguese', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 126, no 3 , pp 1379 - 1393.
  • Curtin, S., Fennell, C. and Escudero, P. (2009), 'Weighting of vowel cues explains patterns of word-object associative learning', Developmental Science, vol 12, no 5 , pp 725 - 731.
  • Escudero, P., Hayes-Hard, R. and Mitterer, H. (2008), 'Novel second-language words and asymmetric lexical access', Journal of Phonetics, vol 36, no 2 , pp 345 - 360.
  • Bion, R., Escudero, P. and Morrison, G. (2008), 'Dialectal effects in the perception of vowels produced by first and second language speakers : North Carolinian versus Southern Welsh listeners', Meetings on Acoustics. Proceedings, vol 4 .
  • Escudero, P. (2007), 'Multilingual sound perception and word recognition', Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, vol 15 , pp 93 - 103.
  • Boersma, P. and Escudero, P. (2005), 'Measuring relative cue weighting: a reply to Morrison', Studies in Second Language Acquisition, vol 27, no 4 , pp 607 - 617.
  • Escudero, P. and Boersma, P. (2004), 'Bridging the gap between L2 speech perception research and phonological theory', Studies in Second Language Acquisition, vol 26, no 4 , pp 551 - 585.

Conference Papers

  • Liu, L., Peter, V., Ong, J. and Escudero, P. (2020), 'Revisiting infant distributional learning using event-related potentials : does unimodal always inhibit and bimodal always facilitate?', International Conference on Speech Prosody, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Sarvasy, H., Elvin, J., Li, W. and Escudero, P. (2019), 'An acoustic analysis of vowels in Nungon child- versus adult-directed speech', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Vic..
  • Tuninetti, A., Whang, J. and Escudero, P. (2019), 'Non-native vowel perception in a 4IAX task : the effects of acoustic distance', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Vic..
  • Lahoz Bengoechea, J., Tuninetti, A. and Escudero, P. (2019), 'Spoken word recognition by English-speaking learners of Spanish', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Vic..
  • Agarwal, S., Tuninetti, A., Liu, L. and Escudero, P. (2019), 'Neural sensitivity to changes in naturally produced speech sounds : a comparison of different stimuli presentation paradigms', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Vic..
  • Williams, D. and Escudero, P. (2019), 'Detecting phonetic variation versus phonemic differences', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Vic..
  • Williams, D., Elvin, J., Escudero, P. and Gafos, A. (2019), 'Multidimensional variation in English diphthongs', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Vic..
  • Sarvasy, H., Elvin, J., Li, W. and Escudero, P. (2019), 'Vowel acoustics of Nungon, Papua New Guinea', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Vic..
  • Williams, D., Escudero, P. and Gafos, A. (2018), 'Perceptual sensitivity to spectral change in Australian English close front vowels : an electroencephalographic investigation', INTERSPEECH (Conference), Hyderabad, India.
  • Yazawa, K., Kondo, M. and Escudero, P. (2017), 'Modelling Japanese speakers' perceptual learning of English /i:/ and /I/ within the L2LP framework', Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, London, U.K..
  • Bazouni, J., Liu, L., Weidemann, G. and Escudero, P. (2016), 'The role of affect processing on infant word learning', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Parramatta, N.S.W..
  • Pino Escobar, G., Pino Escobar, G., Terry, J., Kriengwatana, B. and Escudero, P. (2016), 'Speech normalization across speaker, sex and accent variation is handled similarly by listeners of different language backgrounds', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Parramatta, N.S.W..
  • Aboultaif, R., Elvin, J., Williams, D. and Escudero, P. (2016), 'Lebanese Arabic listeners find Australian English vowels easy to discriminate', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science , Parramatta, N.S.W..
  • Traynor, N., Mulak, K., Robbins, R., Weidemann, G. and Escudero, P. (2016), 'The role of positive affect in the acquisition of word-object associations', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Parramatta, N.S.W..
  • Ong, J., Terry, J. and Escudero, P. (2016), 'Can Australian English listeners learn non-native vowels via distributional learning?', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Parramatta, N.S.W..
  • Zjakic, H., Tuninetti, A. and Escudero, P. (2016), 'Monolingual and bilingual adults can learn foreign language words implicitly', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Parramatta, N.S.W..
  • Elvin, J., Escudero, P., Williams, D. and Best, C. (2016), 'The relationship between Australian English speakers' non-native perception and production of Brazilian Portuguese vowels', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science, Parramatta, N.S.W..
  • Pino Escobar, G., Pino Escobar, G., Kalashnikova, M. and Escudero, P. (2016), 'The bilingual advantage in the language processing domain : evidence from the Verbal Fluency Task', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science, Parramatta, N.S.W..
  • Ahmad, M., Mubin, O. and Escudero, P. (2015), 'Using adaptive mobile agents in games based scenarios to facilitate foreign language word learning', International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, Daegu, South Korea.
  • Alispahic, S., Escudero, P. and Mulak, K. (2015), 'More vowels are not always better : Australian English and Peruvian Spanish learners' comparable perception of Dutch vowels', Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, Mass..
  • Terry, J., Ong, J. and Escudero, P. (2015), 'Passive distributional learning of non-native vowel contrasts does not work for all listeners', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland.
  • Elvin, J. and Escudero, P. (2015), 'Predicting vowel discriminantion accuracy through cross-linguistic acoustic analyses', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland.
  • Escudero, P., Bonn, C., Aslin, R. and Mulak, K. (2015), 'Indexical and linguistic processing in infancy : discrimination of speaker, accent and vowel differences', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland.
  • Dadwani, R., Peter, V., Chladkova, K., Greambasu, A. and Escudero, P. (2015), 'Adult listeners' processing of indexical versus linguistic differences in a pre-attentive discrimination paradigm', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland.
  • Williams, D., Leussen, J. and Escudero, P. (2015), 'Beyond North American English : modelling vowel inherent spectral change in British English and Dutch', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland.
  • Ong, J., Burnham, D. and Escudero, P. (2015), 'Mandarin listeners can learn non-native lexical tones through distributional learning', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland.
  • Sisinni, B., Escudero, P. and Grimaldi, M. (2014), 'The perception of American English vowels by Salento Italian adult listeners : longitudinal development in the classroom context', International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, Concordia University.
  • Elvin, J. and Escudero, P. (2014), 'Perception of Brazilian Portuguese vowels by Australian English and Spanish listeners', International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, Concordia University.
  • Alispahic, S., Escudero, P. and Mulak, K. (2014), 'Difficulty in discriminating non-native vowels : are Dutch vowels easier for Australian English than Spanish listeners?', Interspeech, Singapore.
  • Alispahic, S., Escudero, P. and Mulak, K. (2014), 'Is more always better? : the perception of Dutch vowels by English versus Spanish listeners', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Christchurch, N.Z..
  • Elvin, J. and Escudero, P. (2014), 'Comparing acoustic analyses of Australian English vowels from Sydney : Cox (2006) versus AusTalk', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Christchurch, N.Z..
  • Escudero, P., Mulak, K. and Alispahic, S. (2014), 'Acoustic distance explains speaker versus accent normalization in infancy', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Christchurch, N.Z..
  • Kriengwatana, B., Escudero, P. and Terry, J. (2014), 'Listeners cope with speaker and accent variation differently : evidence from the Go/No-go task', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Christchurch, N.Z..
  • Escudero, P., Mulak, K. and Vlach, H. (2013), 'Cross-situational statistical learning of phonologically overlapping words', Cognitive Science Society (U.S.). Conference , Berlin, Germany.
  • Sisinni, B., Escudero, P. and Grimaldi, M. (2013), 'Salento Italian listeners' perception of American English vowels', Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Lyon, France.
  • Van Leussen, J., Williams, D. and Escudero, P. (2011), 'Acoustic Properties of Dutch Steady-State Vowels: Contextual Effects and a Comparison with Previous Studies', 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong.
  • Benders, T. and Escudero, P. (2010), 'The interrelation between the stimulus range and the number of responses categories in vowel perception', Proceedings of Interspeech, China.
  • Simon, E., Escudero, P. and Broersma, M. (2010), 'Learning minimally different words in a third language : L2 proficiency as a crucial predictor of accuracy in an L3 word learning task', International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, Poznan, Poland.
  • Gulian, M., Escudero, P. and Boersma, P. (2007), 'Supervision hampers distributional learning of vowel contrasts', Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken.
  • Escudero, P. and Bion, R. (2007), 'Modelling vowel normalization and sound perception as sequential processes', Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken.
  • Morrison, G. and Escudero, P. (2007), 'A cross-dialect comparison of Peninsula- and Peruvian-Spanish vow', Proceedings of the15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken.
  • Escudero, P., Kastelein, J., Weiand, K. and Van Son, R. (2007), 'Formal modelling of L2 perceptual learning: Computational linguistics versus machine learning', Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, N/A.
  • Bion, R., Escudero, P., Rauber, A. and Baptista, B. (2006), 'Category formation and the role of spectral quality in the perception and production of English front vowels', Proceedings of Interspeech 2006, .
  • Rauber, A., Escudero, P., Rauber, A. and Baptista, B. (2005), 'The interrelation between the perception and production of English vowels by native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese', Proceedings of Interspeech 2005 - 9th biennial conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), .

Current Projects

Title: Little Multilingual Minds: Investing in the future of multilingual Australia
Funder:
  • VietSpeak
  • University of Melbourne
  • Amigoss Preschool and Long Day Care Cooperative Limited
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Paola Escudero Neyra
Years: 2023-01-23 - 2026-02-05
ID: P00028178
Title: Little Multilingual Minds (LMM) - French for Public Primary Schools
Funder:
  • Double Bay Public School Parents and Citizens Association
Western Researchers: Paola Escudero Neyra
Years: 2023-07-18 - 2024-07-17
ID: P00028839

Previous Projects

Title: Understanding different speakers vs. different accents: apples and apples or apples and pears?
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Paola Escudero Neyra
Years: 2013-06-30 - 2017-11-24
ID: P00020808
Title: Learning to Talk, Talking to Learn: Effects of an early childhood language program in remote Northern Territory indigenous communities
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • Sunrise Health Service Aboriginal Corporation
  • The Smith Family
Western Researchers: Paola Escudero Neyra and Karen Mattock
Years: 2015-04-22 - 2018-04-29
ID: P00021898
Title: ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language [via ANU]
Funder:
  • Amigoss Preschool and Long Day Care Cooperative Limited
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • University of Western Sydney
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Anne Cutler and Paola Escudero Neyra
Years: 2014-09-12 - 2023-12-31
ID: P00021657
Title: The impact of music and musical abilities on cross-situational word learning [Eline Smit]
Funder:
  • ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language
Western Researchers: Paola Escudero Neyra and Andrew Milne
Years: 2020-09-01 - 2021-06-30
ID: P00026556
Title: Is cross-situational word learning better in peer or individual learning contexts? [Aisling Mulvihill]
Funder:
  • ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language
Western Researchers: Paola Escudero Neyra
Years: 2020-09-01 - 2021-08-31
ID: P00026558
Title: Monitoring as a Driver of Differential Language Change [Luisa Miceli]
Funder:
  • ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language
Western Researchers: Paola Escudero Neyra
Years: 2020-07-01 - 2021-06-30
ID: P00026559
Title: Acoustic description of vowels and prosodic conditioning in Drehu and Lifou French [Catalina Torres]
Funder:
  • ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language
Western Researchers: Paola Escudero Neyra
Years: 2020-06-01 - 2021-05-14
ID: P00026560
Title: Picture-naming, synonymy and language divergence in bilinguals [via UWA]
Funder:
  • University of Western Australia
Western Researchers: Alba Tuninetti and Paola Escudero Neyra
Years: 2018-01-01 - 2018-12-30
ID: P00024597
Title: Tracking statistical learning through cross-domain pitch processing [via ANU CoE]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Paola Escudero Neyra
Years: 2016-05-01 - 2017-12-31
ID: P00023475
Title: Look who's talking: Perceived ethnic background of speaker impacts language learning [via ANU CoE]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Paola Escudero Neyra and Karen Mulak
Years: 2017-09-01 - 2019-08-16
ID: P00024106
Title: An acoustic-phonetic description of the vowels of Crow (Apsaalooke) [via ANU CoE]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Paola Escudero Neyra
Years: 2017-07-01 - 2018-12-31
ID: P00024115
Title: Picture-Naming, Synonymy and Language Divergence in Bilinguals [via ANU CoE]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Paola Escudero Neyra
Years: 2015-11-18 - 2017-01-31
ID: P00023086
Title: Word-learning processes in bilingual and monolingual infants [via ANU CoE]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Marina Kalashnikova and Paola Escudero Neyra
Years: 2015-07-20 - 2016-12-31
ID: P00022780
Title: Using Brain-Computer Interfaces to measure, predict and boost individual language learning [via ANU CoE]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Paola Escudero Neyra and Alba Tuninetti
Years: 2017-07-01 - 2019-08-16
ID: P00024117
Title: Brainwaves and clause chains: Testing EEG in PNG [via ANU CoE]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Alba Tuninetti and Paola Escudero Neyra
Years: 2017-07-01 - 2019-08-16
ID: P00024118
Title: Neural entrainment to speech rhythm [via ANU CoE]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Varghese Peter, Paola Escudero Neyra and Denis Burnham
Years: 2015-11-18 - 2017-01-31
ID: P00023087
Title: Bridging processing and learning: the influence of affect processing on infant word learning [via ANU CoE]
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Gabrielle Weidemann and Paola Escudero Neyra
Years: 2015-11-18 - 2017-05-17
ID: P00023088
Title: Enhancing language learning via auditory training and interaction
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Paola Escudero Neyra
Years: 2017-06-30 - 2023-10-23
ID: P00023470
Title: Acoustics of Nungon Adult Directed Speech vs. Child Directed Speech
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Paola Escudero Neyra
Years: 2018-08-15 - 2019-08-14
ID: P00025261
Title: Digital IDS
Funder:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Western Researchers: Nicole Traynor, Paola Escudero Neyra, Christa Lam-Cassettari and Virginia Schmied
Years: 2019-09-01 - 2021-06-30
ID: P00026100

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