About Us
Garret Kurteff is a junior at UC Berkeley and a double major in Psychology and Linguistics. He is originally from Monterey, CA. In his free time, he plays guitar and writes music reviews. He hopes to get a job at some big-name software company and research Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Synthesis.
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Hello world! My name is Richie Xu, and I am a UC-Berkeley 3rd year double majoring in Public Health and Economics. I was born and raised on the beautiful island of Saipan, Northern Marianas Islands. In my free time, I love to go jogging, cook yummy food, and study foreign languages. After I graduate, I hope to do some work abroad in the field of global health or pursue my masters at a graduate school of education. ヾ(@^▽^@)ノ
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Jerry Pham is a senior student at University of California, Los Angeles, majoring in Psychology. He is from San Jose, CA and enjoys activities such as playing volleyball and chasing dogs in his free time.
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Quang D. Tran is from New Orleans, LA. He has been a member of the Society of Jesus for twelve years. He graduated from Fordham University after a year of studies in Beijing, taught in Macau and Dallas, recently finished a Master of Divinity and is currently working on a S.T.L. (License in Sacred Theology) at Santa Clara University Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. A hopeful pseudo-cynic with an affinity for an eloquently irreverent and smart sense of humor.
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Justin Lai is a third year English-Psychology major at UC Berkeley. He comes from San Francisco, and cannot tolerate hot or cold weather. He once ate an entire thingy of Ritz crackers.
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Hi! My name is Sandy Zhang. I am a junior at Cal. I am studying Psychology with an interest in the biological and psychopharmacological aspects of it. My interests outside of school include performing arts, literature, and spending time with friends.
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Contact Us!
Garret Kurteff - website design, video narration, "Research Shows...," "FAQ," "What is Motherese?," background image photographer
Sandy Zhang - video actor, "FAQ" author, website editing Richie Xu - video actor, "Motherese Around The World" Jerry Pham - "Benefits of Motherese" Quang D. Tran - video actor, "Motherese Around The World" Justin Lai - video filming, video editing |
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Hawkins, A.J., Lovejoy, K. R., Holmes, E. K., Blanchard, V. L, & Fawcett, E. (2008). Increasing fathers’ involvement in child care with a couple-focused intervention.
Hoff, E. (2006, March). How social contexts support and shape language development. Developmental Review, 26(1), 55-88.
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Kuhl, P., Conboy, B., Coffey-Corina, S., Padden, D., Rivera-Gaxiola, M., & Nelson, T. (2008). Phonetic Learning As A Pathway To Language: New Data And Native Language Magnet Theory Expanded (NLM-e). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 979-1000.
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Ryan, R. R., Martin, A., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2006). Is one good parent good enough? Patterns of mother and father parenting and child cognitive outcomes at 24 and 36
months. Parenting: Science and Practice, 6, 211-228.
Schachner, A., & Hannon, E. (2011). Infant-directed speech drives social preferences in 5-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 47, 19-25.
Shneidman, L., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2012). Language input and acquisition in a Mayan village: How important is directed speech? Developmental Science, 659-673.
Stoltz, H.E., Barber, B. K., & Olsen, J. A. (2005). Toward disentangling fathering and mothering: An assessment of relative importance. Journal of Marriage and Family, 67,
1076-1092.
Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Bornstein, M. H., & Baumwell, L. (2001). Maternal Responsiveness and Children’s Achievement of Language Milestones. Child Development, 72 (3), 748-767.
Thiessen, E. D., Hill, E. A. and Saffran, J. R. (2005), Infant-Directed Speech Facilitates Word Segmentation. Infancy, 7: 53–71. doi: 10.1207/s15327078in0701_5
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Blackwell.
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Studies in honor of Melissa Bowerman (pp. 233-254). New York: Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis.
Clark, E. V. (2010). Learning a language the way it is: Conventionality and semantic domains. In E. V. Clark (Ed.), Words and the mind: How words capture human
experience (pp. 243-265). New York: Oxford University Press.
Csibra, G., & Gergely, G. (2009). Natural Pedagogy As Evolutionary Adaptation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 1149-1157.
Davidov, M., & Grusec, J.E. (2006). Untangling the links of parental responsiveness to distress and warmth to child outcomes. Child Development, 77, 44-58.
Hawkins, A.J., Lovejoy, K. R., Holmes, E. K., Blanchard, V. L, & Fawcett, E. (2008). Increasing fathers’ involvement in child care with a couple-focused intervention.
Hoff, E. (2006, March). How social contexts support and shape language development. Developmental Review, 26(1), 55-88.
Huttenlocher, J., Waterfall, H., Vasilyeva, M., Vevea, J., & Hedges, L. (2010). Sources Of Variability In Children’s Language Growth. Cognitive Psychology, 343-365.
Kuhl, P., Conboy, B., Coffey-Corina, S., Padden, D., Rivera-Gaxiola, M., & Nelson, T. (2008). Phonetic Learning As A Pathway To Language: New Data And Native Language Magnet Theory Expanded (NLM-e). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 979-1000.
Lamb, M. E. (2010). How do fathers influence children’s development? Let me count the way. In M. E. Lamb (Ed.), The role of the father in child development (5 ed., pp. 1-
26). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Ryan, R. R., Martin, A., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2006). Is one good parent good enough? Patterns of mother and father parenting and child cognitive outcomes at 24 and 36
months. Parenting: Science and Practice, 6, 211-228.
Schachner, A., & Hannon, E. (2011). Infant-directed speech drives social preferences in 5-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 47, 19-25.
Shneidman, L., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2012). Language input and acquisition in a Mayan village: How important is directed speech? Developmental Science, 659-673.
Stoltz, H.E., Barber, B. K., & Olsen, J. A. (2005). Toward disentangling fathering and mothering: An assessment of relative importance. Journal of Marriage and Family, 67,
1076-1092.
Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Bornstein, M. H., & Baumwell, L. (2001). Maternal Responsiveness and Children’s Achievement of Language Milestones. Child Development, 72 (3), 748-767.
Thiessen, E. D., Hill, E. A. and Saffran, J. R. (2005), Infant-Directed Speech Facilitates Word Segmentation. Infancy, 7: 53–71. doi: 10.1207/s15327078in0701_5
Tomasello, M. (2011). Language development. In U. Goswami Ed., The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of childhood cognitive development (2nd ed., pp. 239-257). Malden, MA:
Blackwell.
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This website was created as a "Group Outreach Project" in PSYCH N140: Developmental Psychology at University of California, Berkeley in the summer of 2014. The class was taught by professor Jennifer Arter.