Doctor Karen Mattock
LECTURER IN LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT,
Social, Personal & Developmental Psychology (SoSSP
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD University of Western Sydney
- BPsych(Hons) University of Wollongong
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Social, Personal & Developmental Psychology (SoSSP
Contact
| Email: | K.Mattock@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 6619 |
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| Location: | 24.1.57 Bankstown |
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Biography
Lecturer in Lifespan Development, School of Social Sciences & Psychology, University of Western Sydney
Education and Past Positions:
- Bachelor of Psychology (hons, Class I), University of Wollongong, Australia (2000)
- PhD (Psychology), University of Western Sydney, Australia (2005). Supervised by Prof Denis Burnham Postdoctoral Fellow in Centre for Research in Language, Mind, and Brain
- School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, McGill University, Canada (2004-2007). Supervised by Associate Prof Linda Polka and Associate Prof Susan Rvachew Research Council U.K Fellow (2007-2012) & Academic Fellow (2012), Lancaster University U.K
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Publications
Chapters in Books
- Mattock, K. (2012), 'Infant language learning', Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, Springer 9781441914279.
Journal Articles
- Mattock, K. (2012), 'Integrating constraints for learning word-referent mappings', Cognition, 11.
- Mattock, K. (2010), 'The first steps in word learning are easier when the shoes fit : comparing monolingual and bilingual infants', Developmental Science, 15.
- Mattock, K. (2010), 'Preverbal infants' sensitivity to synaesthetic cross-modality correspondences', Psychological Science, 5.
Research
I investigate language development with particular focus on speech perception and babbling in infancy and and word learning in infants, children and adults using phonetic, constraints, socio-pragmatic, cross-situational, and sound-symbolic approaches. I am interested in the factors that influence language development such as exposure and experience with language, cross-linguistic influences, learning one vs two languages (bilingualism), hearing impairment, and infant-directed speech. My most significant contribution is in the area of infants' perception of lexical tone, a feature of tone languages such as Mandarin and Thai.
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