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in press
Li, S., McDonald, M., & Zamuner, T.S. (in press). Combining and integrating multiple linguistic cues during spoken language comprehension: A focus on semantics and coarticulation. Cognition. Open Access.

Lopez Assef, B., & Zamuner, T.S. (First View). Task effects in children's word recall: Expanding the Reverse Production Effect. Journal of Child Language. Open Access.
2025
McDonald, M., & Zamuner, T.S. (2025). The relationship between language experience variables and the time-course of spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 53, 1303-1323. doi

Newton, M., Li, S., & Zamuner, T.S. (2025). SES affects toddlers looking to targets and predictive processing. Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association. Montreal, Quebec. pdf

Rabideau, T., Ramesh, B., Yeung, H.H., & Zamuner, T.S. (2025). The development of visual speech cue usage: Exploring the effects of a training phase in a primed picture naming task. Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association. Montreal, Quebec. pdf

Zamuner, T.S., Kilbertus, L., & Boyce, K., Bacon., J. (2025). Phonological priming in children’s: Developmental and methodological influences. Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association. Montreal, Quebec. pdf
2024
Lopez Assef, B., McDonald, M., Bernard, A., & Zamuner, T.S. (2024). Effects of speech production training on memory across short and long delays in 5- and 6-year-olds: A pre-registered study. Applied Psycholinguistics, 45, 243-266. Open Access.

Gosselin, L., Manning, G., Rabideau, T. & Zamuner, T.S. (2024). Cross-language anticipatory processing: Bilinguals employ grammatical gender in French to predict upcoming genderless words in English. In G. Bembridge (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2024 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. Ottawa, Canada. pdf.

2023
Desmeules-Trudel, F. & Zamuner, T.S. (2023). Spoken word recognition in a second language: The importance of phonetic details. Second Language Teaching, 39, 333-362. pdf.

Lopez Assef, B., Strahm, S., Boyce, K., Page, M., & Zamuner, T.S. (2023). Production benefits the recall of novel words with frequent, but not infrequent sound patterns. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics, 8(1). pdf.

McDonald., M., Lopez Assef, B., Li, S., & Zamuner, T.S. (2023). The visual world paradigm for indexing phonological and semantic co-activation in children: A methodological overview. pdf.

Zamuner, T.S., Rabideau, T., McDonald., M., & Yeung, H.H. (2023). Developmental change in children's speech processing of auditory and visual cues: An eyetracking study. Journal of Child Language, 50(1), 27-51. pdf.
2021
Lopez Assef, B., Bernard, A., Desmeules-Trudel, F. & Zamuner, T.S. (2021). A shift in the effect of production on memory in children aged 2-6 years. Child Development, 92, 2447-2464. pdf.
2020
Desmeules-Trudel, F., Moore, C., & Zamuner, T.S. (2020). Monolingual and bilingual children's processing of coarticulation cues during spoken word recognition. Journal of Child Language, 47, 1189-1206. pdf

Morid., M., Griffiths, E., Wang, S., & Zamuner, T.S. (2020). The representation of concrete versus abstract words: An eyetracking study. Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistics Association, 1-15. pdf
2019
Stokes, S., de Bree, E., Kerkhoff, A., Momenian, M., & Zamuner, T.S. (2019). Phonology, semantics, and the comprehension-expression gap in emerging lexicons. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 16, 4509-4522. pdf

Desmeules-Trudel, F., & Zamuner, T. S. (2019). Gradient patterns of spoken word recognition and processing of coarticulatory information. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 81, 1654-1672. pdf

Burness, P., McMullin, K., Zamuner, T.S. (2019). The role of long-distance phonological processes in spoken word recognition: A preliminary investigation. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics (TWPL), 41, 1-15. pdf

2018

Zamuner, T. S., & Thiessen, A., (2018). A phonological, lexical, and phonetic analysis of the new words that young children imitate. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Special issue on Interaction of phonetic-phonological developments and input characteristics in early lexical development. 63, 609-632. pdf

Zamuner, T.S., Strahm, S., Morin-Lessard, E., & Page, M.P.A. (2018). The reverse production effect: Children recognize novel words better when they are heard rather than produced. Developmental Science, 21, 1-13. pdf

2017

Zamuner, T.S., Kilbertus, L., & Weinhold, M. (2017). Game-influenced methodology: Addressing data attrition in child development research. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 14, 15-22. pdf

May, L., Zamuner, T.S., & Werker, J. (2017). Phonological development in first languages. The Routledge Handbook of English Pronunciation (pp. 58-74), New York, Routledge.


Stevenson, S. & Zamuner, T.S. (2017). Gradient phonological relationships: Evidence from vowels in French. Glossa, 2, 58. pdf

​Zamuner, T.S., Yeung, H. H., & Dumos, M. (2017). The many facets of speech production and its complex effects on phonological processing. British Journal of Psychology, 108, 37-39. pdf

2016

Zamuner, T.S., Moore, C., & Desmeules-Trudel, F. (2016). Toddler’s sensitivity to within-word coarticulation during spoken word recognition: Developmental differences in lexical competition. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 152, 136–148. pdf

Zamuner, T.S., Morin-Lessard, E., Strahm, S., & Page, M.P.A. (2016). Spoken word recognition of novel words, either produced or only heard during training. Journal of Memory and Language, 89, 55-67. pdf

Zamuner, T.S., & Kharlamov, V. (2016). Phonotactics and Syllable Structure. In J. Lidz, W. Synder, & J. Pater (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics(pp. 27-42). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pdf

Archer, S., Zamuner, T.S., Fais, L., Engel, K., & Curtin, S. (2016). Infants’ Discrimination of Consonants: Interplay Between Word Position and Acoustic Saliency. Language Learning and Development, 1, 60-78. pdf

2015

Zamuner, T.S., Morin-Lessard, E., & Bouchat-Laird, N. (2015). Phonological patterns in the lexical development of Canadian French. in M. Yavas (Ed.), Unusual Productions in Phonology: Universals and Language-specific considerations (pp. 28-48). New York: Taylor & Francis.

Alamri, A., & Zamuner, T.S. (2015). Phonological, semantic and root activation in spoken word recognition in Arabic: An eyetracking study. In S. Vinerte (Ed.), Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association (pp. 1-15). Ottawa, Canada: Cahiers Linguistiques d’Ottawa. pdf

2014

Curtin, S., & Zamuner, T.S. (2014). Understanding the developing sound system: Interactions between sounds and words. WIREs Cognitive Science, 5, 589-602. pdf

Zamuner, T.S., Fais, L., & Werker, J.F. (2014). Infants track word forms in early word-object associations. Developmental Science, 17, 481-491. pdf
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De Bree, E., Zamuner, T.S., & Wijnen, F. (2014). Neighbourhood densities in the vocabularies of Dutch children with a familial risk of dyslexia. In R. Kager, J. Grijzenhout, & K. Sebregts (Eds.), Where the Principles Fail. A Festschrift for Wim Zonneveld on the Occasion of his 64th Birthday (pp. 17-28). Utrecht: Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS. pdf

2013

Zamuner, T.S. (2013). Perceptual evidence for young children’s developing knowledge of phonotactic probabilities. Language Acquisition, 20, 241-253. pdf

2012

Zamuner, T.S., Kerkhoff, A.K., & Fikkert, P. (2012). Phonotactics and morpho-phonology in early child language: Evidence from Dutch. Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics, 33, 481-499. pdf

2011

Zamuner, T.S. (2011). Stepping backwards in development: Integrating developmental speech perception with lexical and phonological development – a commentary on Stoel-Gammon’s “Relationships between lexical and phonological development in young children”. Journal of Child Language, 38, 56-60. pdf

Zamuner, T.S., & Johnson, E. J. (2011). Methodology in phonological acquisition: Assessing the joint development of speech perception and production. In B. Botma, N. Kula, & K. Nasukawa (Eds.), Continuum Handbook to Phonology (pp. 16-29). Amsterdam: Continuum. pdf

2010

Johnson, E. J., & Zamuner, T.S. (2010). Using infant and toddler testing methods in language acquisition research. In E. Blom & S. Unsworth (Eds.), Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research (pp. 73-93). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pdf

2009

Zamuner, T.S. (2009). Phonological probabilities at the onset of language development: Speech production and word position. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 52, 49- 60. pdf

Zamuner, T.S. (2009). The structure and nature of phonological neighbourhoods in children’s early lexicons. Journal of Child Language, 36, 3-21. pdf

2007

Gerken, L.A., & Zamuner, T.S. (2007). Exploring the basis for generalization in language acquisition. In J. Cole & J. I. Hualde (Eds.), Laboratory Phonology 9 (pp. 265-286). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Kager, R., Feest, S. van der, Fikkert, P., Kerkhoff, A., & Zamuner, T.S. (2007). Representations of [voice]: Evidence from acquisition. In J. van de Weijer & E.J. van der Torre (Eds.), Voicing in Dutch: (De)voicing – phonology, phonetics, and psycholinguistics (pp. 41-80). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pdf

2006

Zamuner, T.S. (2006). Sensitivity to word-final phonotactics in 9- to 16-month-old infants. Infancy, 10, 77-95. pdf

Kennedy, R., & Zamuner, T.S. (2006). Nicknames and the lexicon of sports. American Speech, 81, 387-422. pdf
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Zamuner, T.S., Kerkhoff, A., & Fikkert, P. (2006). Acquisition of voicing neutralization and alternations in Dutch. In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia, & C. Zaller (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 701-712). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pdf

2005

Zamuner, T.S., Gerken, L.A., & Hammond, M. (2005). The acquisition of phonology based on input: A closer look at the relation of cross-linguistic and child language data. Lingua, 10, 1403-1426. pdf
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Fikkert, P., Heugten, M. van, Offermans, P., & Zamuner, T.S. (2005). Rhymes as a window into grammar. In A. Brugosl, M. R. Clark-Cotton, & S. Ha (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Boston University Conference on Language Development Vol. 1. (pp. 204-215). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pdf

2004

Zamuner, T.S., Gerken, L.A., & Hammond, M. (2004). Phonotactic probabilities in young children’s speech production. Journal of Child Language, 31, 515-536. pdf

2003

Zamuner, T.S. (2003). Input-Based Phonological Acquisition. Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Series. New York, NY: Routledge.

2002-Earlier

Hayes, R., Lewis, W., O’Bryan, E., & Zamuner, T.S. (Eds.). (2002). Coyote Working Papers in Linguistics: Language in Cognitive Science. University of Arizona Press: Tucson, AZ.

Zamuner, T.S. (2001). The role of the input vs. universal grammar in children’s acquisition of coda consonants. In J. T. Jensen, & G. van Herk (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2000 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association (pp. 373-384). Ottawa, Canada: Cahiers Linguistiques d’Ottawa.

Zamuner, T.S., & Ohala, D. (1999). Preliterate children’s syllabification of intervocalic consonants. In A. Greenhill, H. Litterfield, & C. Tano (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Boston University Conference on Language Development Vol. 2. (pp. 753-763). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
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Zamuner, T.S., & Gerken, L.A. (1998). Young children’s production of coda consonants in different prosodic environments. In E. V. Clark (Ed.), The proceedings of the twenty-ninth annual child language research forum (pp. 13-25). Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information.

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