Drew Weatherhead
Assistant Professor
Email: Drew.Weatherhead@dal.ca
Fax: 902-494-6585
Mailing Address:
鲍鱼tv University Life Sciences Centre 6287 Alumni Crescent PO Box 15000 Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Research Topics:- Language acquisition
- Sociolinguistics
- Social cognition
- Cognitive development
- Infancy
- Word Learning
Education
COGS-P-BCH (Queen鈥檚 University)
PhD (University of Waterloo)
PDF (University of British Columbia)
Research Interests
Broadly, my research investigates mechanisms of early language acquisition. I study infants and young children using a variety of methods including eye-tracking and functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Much of my work is focused on sociolinguistic development. My lab is interested in how infants and children process accented speech, and how speaker characteristics such as race influence their perception.
Selected Publications
- Weatherhead, D., & White, K. S. (2018). And then I saw her race: Race-based expectations affect infants鈥� word processing.聽Cognition,听177, 87-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.04.004
- Weatherhead, D., & White, K. S. (2017). Read my lips: Visual speech influences word processing in infants.聽Cognition,听160, 103-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.01.002
- Weatherhead, D., White, K. S., & Friedman, O. (2016). Where are you from? Preschoolers infer background from accent.聽Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,听143, 171-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2015.10.011