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George J. Hollich, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Department of Psychological Sciences
Psychological Sciences Building, Room 1226
Purdue University, 703 Third Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2004
Phone: (765) 494-2224     Email: ghollich@purdue.edu

I am the director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology and the Director of the Infant Language Lab here at Purdue. My research is on child language acquisition, including how infants perceive speech, learn words and come to understand the meaning of grammar. I am the author of a Society for Research in Child Development Monograph on the Origins of Word Learning (co-written with Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Golinkoff, and a recent Psychological Review Article (co-authored with Lakshmi Gogate) that reveals the perceptual underpinnings of speech perception, word learning, and grammar. My current research examines the connections between language acquisition and learning in other areas of expertise, including how undergraduate students learn the principles of psychology. I've even been the subject of a Purdue News Article or two, or three :-).

 

For the latest info check out my blog at georgehollich.posterous.com.

 

Professional Documents & Posters Professional | Links | People | Publicity

Resume/Vitae (pdf)

Selected Publications (by clinking on these links you are formally requesting a reprint)

Gogate, L. & Hollich, G. (2010). Invariance detection within an interactive system: A perceptual gateway to language development. Psychological Review, 171, 496-516.

Hollich, G., & Prince, C. (2009). Comparing Infants’ Preference for Correlated Audiovisual Speech with Signal-Level Computational Models. Developmental Science, 12, 379-387.

Hollich, G., Golinkoff, R., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2007). Young children associate novel words with complex objects rather than salient parts. Developmental Psychology, 43, 1051-1061.

Hollich, G., & Houston, D. (2007). Language Development: From speech perception to first words. In A. Slater & M. Lewis (Eds.) Introduction to Infant Development (Second edition). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Hollich, G. (2006). Combining techniques to reveal emergent effects in infants segmentation, word learning, and grammar. Language & Speech, 49 (1), 3-19.

Hollich, G., Newman, R., & Jusczyk, P. (2005). Infants use of synchronized visual information to separate streams of speech. Child Development, 76, 598-613.

Prince, C. G., Hollich, G., Helder, N. A., Mislivec, E. J., Salunke, S. & Memon, N. (2004). Taking synchrony seriously: A perceptual-level model of infant synchrony detection. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics.

Seidl, A., Hollich, G., & Jusczyk, P. (2003). Infants and toddlers comprehension of subject and object wh-questions. Infancy, 4, 423-436.

Hollich, G., Jusczyk, P., & Luce, P. (2002). Lexical neighborhood effects in 17-month-old word learning. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Hollich, G., Jusczyk, P., & Brent, M. (2001). How infants use the words they know to learn new words. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Hollich, G., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Tucker, M., & Golinkoff, R. (2000). A change is afoot: Emergentist thinking in language acquisition. In P.B. Anderson (Ed.) Downward Causation. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R., & Hollich, G. (1999). Trends and transitions in language development: Looking for the missing piece. Developmental Neuropsychology, 16, 139-162.

Hollich, G., Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R.M. (1998). Introducing the 3-D intermodal preferential looking paradigm: A new method to answer an age-old question. In C. Rovee-Collier (Ed.), Advances in Infancy Research, Vol. 12 (pp. 355-373). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Co.

Talks, Posters, & Other Academic Output

2011 Talks at IAEYC - Outlines & Slides

Video of my Developmental Learning Talk.

2008 ICIS Poster: Modification of Preferential Looking to derive individual differences (pdf)

2007 Synchrony Talk at theWorkshop on Visual Prosody in Language Communication held at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, May 10 Ð11.

2007 Talks at IECC - Infant Perception and Mystery of Language.

2005 SRCD Poster: Factors influencing infants' learning of similar sounding words(pdf)

2005 SRCD Poster: Preferential Looking Tests of Wh-Questions in Children with Specific Language Impairment (pdf)

2004 ICDL Poster: Are you synching what I'm synching (pdf)

2004 ICIS Poster: Learning Similar Words in Noise (pdf)

2003 CDS Poster: Learning Phonologically Similar Words (pdf).

2002 ICIS Poster: Talker Variability and Word Learning (pdf)

2002 ICIS Poster: Attention and the comprehension of wh-questions (pdf)

2001 ASA Poster: Visual Information in Speech Segmentation (pdf)

2001 SRCD Poster: Infants' perception of occlusion events (pdf)

2001 SRCD Poster: Phonetic false memories (pdf)

2000 ASA Poster: Infant word learning and lexical neighborhoods (pdf)

2000 CogSci Talk: Of words, worms, and weeds.

2000 ICIS Talk: Making the Implicit, Explicit: A Computational Model

1999 Temple University Dissertation: Mechanisms of Word Learning (pdf)

1999 SRCD Poster: Introducing the Splitscreen Paradigm.

1998 ICIS Poster:Breaking the Word Barrier: A Coalition Model

Language Laboratory Description (From my days at Temple).

My notes for the 1998 Oxford Connectionist Summer School

LVC honors project: A Primer for Parallel Distributed Processing

 

Relevant Links Professional | Links | People | Publicity

Child Development Links

Child Development Lecture Notes

Splitscreen Preferential Looking Paradigm

Graduate Advice

Purdue University Baby Labs

Jusczyk Lab Final Report

The Florida International University Infant Development Research Center

Language Development Course

Temple University Infant Labs

Temple Psychology

 

Collaborators Professional | Links | People | Publicity

Roberta M. Golinkoff

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Elizabeth Johnson

Rochelle Newman

Christopher Prince

Amanda Seidl

 

Language Acquisition in the News Professional | Links | People | Publicity

Johns Hopkins Magazine: Speech Perception

Yahoo: 8-month-old babies recognize words!

Science Daily: Talking to your child makes a difference

SRCD Monograph

Purdue News Article on the Language Lab

 

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