Associate Professor, Developmental Research Area Head
Contact Information
Email:Ìýwhite@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: 519-888-4567 x41006
Location:PAS 4014
Associate Professor, Developmental Research Area Head | Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts
Katherine White, PhD joined the Psychology Department at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ in 2010, after completing her PhD in Cognitive Science at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island, USA) and postdoctoral research in the department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester (Rochester, New York, USA). She studies early language development in infants and toddlers, as well as language processing in adults.
Selected Publications:
- Johnson, E. K. & White, K. S. (2020). Developmental sociolinguistics: Children's acquisition of language variation. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews in Cognitive Science, 11 (1), e1515.Ìý
- White, K. S., Nilsen, E. S.,ÌýDeglint, T., & Silva, J. (2020). That's thee,ÌýuhhÌýblicket! How does disfluency affect children's word learning? First Language, 40, 3-20.Ìý
- Weatherhead, D., Friedman, O., White, K. S. (2019). Preschoolers are sensitive to accent distance. Journal of Child Language, 46, 1058-1072.Ìý