Megha Sundara

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Linguistics
UCLA

Publications

Journals

 

• Song, J. Y., Sundara, M., & Demuth, K. Effects of phonology on children’s production of English 3rd person singular –s. Under review Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research

• Ilari, B., & Sundara, M. Music listening preferences in early life: Infants prefer unaccompanied singing. To appear Journal of Research in Music Education

• Sundara, M., Polka, L., & Molnar, M. (2008). Development of coronal stop perception:  Bilingual infants keep pace with their monolingual peers.  Cognition, 108, 232-242.

• Sundara, M., & Polka, L. (2008). Discrimination of coronal stops by bilingual adults: The timing and nature of language interaction.  Cognition, 106(1), 234-258.

• Sundara, M., Polka, L. & Baum, S. (2006). Production of coronal stops by adult simultaneous bilinguals.  Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 9(1), 97-114.

• Sundara, M., Polka, L., & Genesee, F. (2006). Language-experience facilitates discrimination of /d- ð/ in monolingual and bilingual acquisition of English.  Cognition, 100(2), 369-388.

• Sundara, M. (2005). Acoustic-phonetics of coronal stops: A cross-language study of Canadian English & Canadian French. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118(2), 1026-1037.

• Sundara, M., Namasivayam, A. K. & Chen, R. (2001). Observation-execution matching system for speech: A magnetic stimulation study. NeuroReport, 12(7), 1341-1344.

• Polka, L., Colantonio, C. & Sundara, M. (2001). Cross-language perception of /d – ð/: Evidence for a new developmental pattern. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109(5), 2190-2200.

 

Refereed Proceedings

• Sundara, M. (2003). Can adult phonetic categories be predicted from statistical distribution alone? Presented at ICPhS, Barcelona Aug 3-9th.  Published in Solé, M. J., Recasens, D., Romero, J. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2329-2332.

• Polka, L. & Sundara, M. (2003). Word segmentation in monolingual and bilingual infant learners of English and French. Presented at ICPhS, Barcelona Aug 3-9th.  Published in Solé, M. J., Recasens, D., Romero, J. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1021-1024.

• Aravind, N., Sundara, M. & Saoji, A. (1998). Frequency specificity of the medial efferent system in Pardasani, K. R. (Ed.) Advances in Biomechanics: Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference, MACT Press, Bhopal, 231-236.

 

Conference Presentations (2005-2008)

2008

• Sundara, M., Demuth, K. & Kuhl, P.K.  Positional effects on 2-year-olds' comprehension and production of 3rd person singular –s.  Poster presentation at the Boston University Conference on Language Development

• Sundara, M., Kitamura, C & Nazzi, T.  Behavioral and physiological measures of language preference. Poster at Acoustics’08, the 155th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Paris

• Vicenik, C. & Sundara, M.  Role of segmental and intonational cues in dialect discrimination.  Poster at Acoustics’08, the 155th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Paris [sample stimuli on Chad’s webpage]

• Nazzi, T., Mersad, K., Iakimova, G., Sundara, M. & Polka, L.  Differences in the development of speech segmentation abilities in two French dialects.  Presentation at the International Association for the Society of Child Language, Edinburgh

• Nazzi, T., Mersad, K., Iakimova, G., Polka, L., & Sundara, M.  Differences in the development of speech segmentation abilities in two French dialects.  Poster at Acoustics’08, the 155th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Paris

• Polka, L., Proulx, J., & Sundara, M.  Speech segmentation in monolingual and bilingual infants acquiring Canadian English and Canadian French.  Poster at Acoustics’08, the 155th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Paris

• Polka, L., Proulx, J., Mersad, K., Iakimova, G., Sundara, M. & Nazzi, T., Speech segmentation in French-learning infants: Language-specific and dialect-specific patterns.  Presentation at International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver

 

2006

• Sundara, M., & Kuhl, P. K.  Distinguishing voices: Are infants’ abilities affected by age or language experience?  Poster at the 4th Joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America & the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu.

• Nazzi, T., Iakimova, G., Bertoncini, J., Polka, L., Sundara, M., & Girard, S.  The development of word segmentation in infants acquiring different dialects of French.  Poster presentation at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston.

• Sundara, M., & Kuhl, P. K.  Role of language experience in infants’ discrimination of male and female voice.  Presentation at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Kyoto.

• Iakimova, G., Nazzi, T., Sundara, M., & Polka, L.  Emerging evidence of differences in segmentation abilities between Parisian and Canadian French infants.  Poster at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Kyoto.

• Polka, L., Molnar, M., Sundara, M., Valji, A., & Mattock, K.  Speech perception development in bilingual infants.  Conference on Language Acquisition & Bilingualism, Toronto.

• Polka, L., Molnar, M., Sundara, M., Valji, A., & Mattock, K.  Le développement de la perception de la parole chez l’enfant bilingue.  ACFAS, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal. 

 

2005

• Sundara, M., Klein, D. & Chen, J,-K. Neural correlates of phonetic and pitch categorization: Preliminary fMRI data.  Poster at the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.

• Cardillo, G., Kuhl, P. K., & Sundara, M.  Relative saliency of pitch versus phonetic cues in infancy.  Poster at 150th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis (Abstract in JASA, 118(3), 1962).

• Cardillo, G., Kuhl, P. K., & Sundara, M. Speech in music: Encoding pitch and segmental information in infant development.  Poster at the Society of Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC) Workshop, San Diego.

• Nazzi, T., Iakimova, G., Frédonie, S., Sundara, M., & Polka, L. Evaluating early speech segmentation in French: Effects of rhythmic types and speech mode.  Presentation at the X International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin.

• Nazzi, T., Iakimova, G., Frédonie, S., Sundara, M., & Polka, L.  Exploring the development of speech segmentation abilities in French.  Presentation at the conference on Emerging Language Abilities, Lyon.

 

Contact information

Office location:  2101S Campbell Hall

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Telephone:  (310) 825-0041

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Department of Linguistics
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA  90095-1543

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Last updated August 4, 2008