About
Paola Escudero
Western Sydney University
Main areas of research
- Phonetics
- Word Learning
- Bilingualism
- Speech Perception
- Language Acquisition
Bio
Paola is Professor in Linguistics and Director of Research at The MARCS Institute. She started at Western Sydney University in January 2011, after a research position at the University of Amsterdam and a Visiting Assistant Professorship at the University of California in Los Angeles. Her work focuses on speech and visual processing in diverse populations, including monolingual and multilingual infants, young children, and adults as well as zebra finches.
Research Interests
- Listeners’ processing of speaker and accent variation.
- Monolingual, bilingual and multilingual infant speech perception and word learning.
- Cross-linguistic speech perception, production and word recognition.
- The role of emotion/affect and joint attention in language acquisition.
- Visual preferences in infancy through adulthood.
Publications
Bridging the gap between L2 speech perception research and phonological theory P Escudero, P Boersma. Studies in second language acquisition 26 (4), 551-585
Linguistic perception and second language acquisition: Explaining the attainment of optimal phonological categorization PRE Neyra. 113
A cross-dialect acoustic description of vowels: Brazilian and European Portuguese P Escudero, P Boersma, AS Rauber, RAH Bion. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 126 (3), 1379-1393