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  1. Determining spectral stability in vowels: A comparison and assessment of different metrics

    Article • Speech Communication, October 2023, Elsevier

    Steven Gillis

  2. Children steer the inflectional diversity of their parents: The role of word births and growing vocabulary

    Article • First Language, May 2023, SAGE Publications

    Steven Gillis

  3. Artificial intelligence

    Article • August 2022, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  4. Intraword Variability in Children With Auditory Brainstem Implants: A Longitudinal Comparison With Children With Cochlear Implants

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, July 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Steven Gillis

  5. Parents tune their vowels to the emergence of children’s words

    Article • Journal of Child Language, June 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Steven Gillis

  6. Speech intelligibility of children with an auditory brainstem implant: a triple-case study

    Article • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Steven Gillis

  7. Developing Language and Literacy

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steven Gillis

  8. Spontaneous speech intelligibility: early cochlear implanted children versus their normally hearing peers at seven years of age

    Article • Journal of Child Language, December 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Steven Gillis

  9. Speech production accuracy of children with auditory brainstem implants: A comparison with peers with cochlear implants and typical hearing using Levenshtein Distance

    Article • First Language, September 2021, SAGE Publications

    Steven Gillis

  10. Tailoring the Input to Children's Needs: The Use of Fine Lexical Tuning in Speech Directed to Normally Hearing Children and Children With Cochlear Implants

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, June 2021, Frontiers

    Steven Gillis

  11. Consonant and vowel production in the spontaneous speech productions of children with auditory brainstem implants

    Article • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Steven Gillis

  12. Word characteristics and speech production accuracy in children with auditory brainstem implants: a longitudinal triple case report

    Article • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Steven Gillis

  13. Language development in children from different SES backgrounds

    Article • Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, October 2020, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  14. Fine lexical tuning in infant directed speech to typically developing children

    Article • Journal of Child Language, July 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Steven Gillis

  15. Native and non-native listeners’ judgements on the overall speech quality of hearing-impaired children

    Article • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Steven Gillis

  16. Is the spontaneous speech of 7-year-old cochlear implanted children as intelligible as that of their normally hearing peers?

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, February 2020, Elsevier

    Steven Gillis

  17. Rating the overall speech quality of hearing-impaired children by means of comparative judgements

    Article • Journal of Communication Disorders, December 2019, Elsevier

    Steven Gillis

  18. Identificeerbaarheid van kinderen met een gehoorbeperking

    Article • Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, October 2019, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis, Nathalie Boonen

  19. Input–output relations in Hebrew verb acquisition at the morpho-lexical interface

    Article • Journal of Child Language, September 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Steven Gillis

  20. Listeners’ perception of lexical stress in the first words of infants with cochlear implants and normally hearing infants

    Article • Journal of Communication Disorders, July 2019, Elsevier

    Steven Gillis

  21. Are Children ‘Lazy Learners’? A Comparison of Natural and Machine Learning of Stress

    Article • May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Steven Gillis

  22. Expressive Vocabulary Growth After Pediatric Auditory Brainstem Implantation in Two Cases' Spontaneous Productions: A Comparison With Children With Cochlear Implants and Typical Hearing

    Article • Frontiers in Pediatrics, May 2019, Frontiers

    Steven Gillis

  23. Where do syllables come from?

    Article • April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Steven Gillis

  24. Auditory brainstem implantation in children with hearing loss: Effect on speech production

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, April 2019, Elsevier

    Steven Gillis

  25. Simulating speech processing with cochlear implants: How does channel interaction affect learning in neural networks?

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2019, PLOS

    Steven Gillis

  26. Children Probably Store Short Rather Than Frequent or Predictable Chunks: Quantitative Evidence From a Corpus Study

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2019, Frontiers

    Steven Gillis

  27. Correction: Lexical category acquisition is facilitated by uncertainty in distributional co-occurrences

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2019, PLOS

    Steven Gillis

  28. The effect of hearing impairment on the production of prominences: The case of French-speaking school-aged children using cochlear implants and children with normal hearing

    Article • First Language, December 2018, SAGE Publications

    Steven Gillis

  29. Lexical category acquisition is facilitated by uncertainty in distributional co-occurrences

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2018, PLOS

    Steven Gillis

  30. Le développement de la richesse flexionnelle d'enfants porteurs d'un implant cochléaire et d'enfants normo-entendants

    Article • Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage, October 2018, Cantonal and University Library Fribourg

    Steven Gillis

  31. Can listeners hear the difference between children with normal hearing and children with a hearing impairment?

    Article • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Steven Gillis, Nathalie Boonen

  32. Prosodic modulation in the babble of cochlear implanted and normally hearing infants: A perceptual study using a visual analogue scale

    Article • First Language, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    Ilke De Clerck, Steven Gillis

  33. Intraword Variability in Children With Cochlear Implants: The Long-Term Development up to 5 Years of Age and a Comparison With Children With Normal Hearing

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, May 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Steven Gillis

  34. 37. Speech and language in congenitally deaf children with a cochlear implant

    Article • April 2018, De Gruyter

    Steven Gillis

  35. Syllable type development in toddlers acquiring Dutch

    Article • Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, October 2017, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  36. Chapter 10. Acquisition of phonological variables of a Flemish dialect by children raised in Standard Dutch

    Article • September 2017, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  37. The Effect of Word Frequency on Phonemic Accuracy in Children With Cochlear Implants and Peers With Typical Levels of Hearing

    Article • The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, May 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Steven Gillis

  38. Facilitatory Effects of Multi-Word Units in Lexical Processing and Word Learning: A Computational Investigation

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, April 2017, Frontiers

    Steven Gillis

  39. Consonant cluster production in children with cochlear implants: A comparison with normally hearing peers

    Article • First Language, February 2017, SAGE Publications

    Steven Gillis

  40. 1. Advances and lacunas in usage-based studies of first language acquisition

    Article • January 2017, De Gruyter

    Steven Gillis

  41. Expansion of Prosodic Abilities at the Transition From Babble to Words

    Article • Ear & Hearing, January 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Steven Gillis

  42. A comparison of maternal and child language in normally-hearing and hearing-impaired children with cochlear implants

    Article • Language Interaction and Acquisition, December 2016, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis, Sven De Maeyer

  43. Is prosodic production driven by lexical development? Longitudinal evidence from babble and words

    Article • Journal of Child Language, November 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Ilke De Clerck, Steven Gillis

  44. Word initial fricative production in children with cochlear implants and their normally hearing peers matched on lexicon size

    Article • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Steven Gillis

  45. Acquisition and Development of Hebrew

    Article • August 2016, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  46. Foundations of the early root category

    Article • August 2016, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  47. Breaking into the Hebrew verb system: A learning problem

    Article • First Language, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Orit Ashkenazi, Steven Gillis

  48. The influence of socio-economic status on mothers’ volubility and responsiveness in a monolingual Dutch-speaking sample

    Article • First Language, April 2016, SAGE Publications

    Steven Gillis

  49. Nominal plurals in Antwerp Hasidic Yiddish: An empirical study

    Article • Linguistics, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Steven Gillis

  50. Early lexical composition of Turkish-Dutch bilinguals: Nouns before verbs or verbs before nouns

    Article • Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Hülya Özcan, Steven Gillis

  51. Hearing impairment and vowel production. A comparison between normally hearing, hearing-aided and cochlear implanted Dutch children

    Article • Journal of Communication Disorders, January 2016, Elsevier

    Steven Gillis

  52. Phonemic accuracy development in children with cochlear implants up to five years of age by using Levenshtein distance

    Article • Journal of Communication Disorders, January 2016, Elsevier

    Steven Gillis

  53. Spelling of consonants in Dutch

    Article • Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, December 2015, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  54. Syntagmatic and paradigmatic development of cochlear implanted children in comparison with normally hearing peers up to age 7

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, September 2015, Elsevier

    Steven Gillis

  55. Interaction patterns of mothers of children with different degrees of hearing: Normally hearing children and congenitally hearing-impaired children with a cochlear implant

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, April 2015, Elsevier

    Steven Gillis

  56. Noun plural production in preschoolers with early cochlear implantation: An experimental study of Dutch and German

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, April 2015, Elsevier

    Steven Gillis

  57. Which distributional cues help the most? Unsupervised contexts selection for lexical category acquisition

    Article • January 2015, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Steven Gillis

  58. Towards a Model of Prediction-based Syntactic Category Acquisition: First Steps with Word Embeddings

    Article • January 2015, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Steven Gillis

  59. Development of adjective frequencies across semantic classes

    Article • Language Interaction and Acquisition, December 2014, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis, Professor Huub van den Bergh, Elena Tribushinina, Ayhan Aksu-Koc

  60. Vowel pronunciation in open syllables in spontaneously spoken Standard Dutch: Exploring a phonological constraint in a listening task

    Article • Linguistics, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Steven Gillis

  61. Infrequent word classes in the speech of two- to seven-year-old children with cochlear implants and their normally hearing peers: A longitudinal study of adjective use

    Article • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, March 2013, Elsevier

    Steven Gillis

  62. The relation between order of acquisition, segmental frequency and function: the case of word-initial consonants in Dutch

    Article • Journal of Child Language, August 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Steven Gillis

  63. The acquisition of scalar structures: Production of adjectives and degree markers by Dutch-speaking children and their caregivers

    Article • Linguistics, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Steven Gillis

  64. Genetic predisposition and sensory experience in language development: Evidence from cochlear-implanted children

    Article • Language and Cognitive Processes, October 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Steven Gillis

  65. How to measure the onset of babbling reliably?

    Article • Journal of Child Language, September 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Steven Gillis

  66. Consonant inventories in the spontaneous speech of young children: A bootstrapping procedure

    Article • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, July 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Steven Gillis

  67. On the role of morphological richness in the early development of noun and verb inflection

    Article • First Language, June 2011, SAGE Publications

    Steven Gillis

  68. Linguistic Assessment Tools for the Digisonic®Dual Electric-Acoustic Speech Processor

    Article • Cochlear Implants International, June 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alexandru Pascu, Professor Vincent J. van Heuven, Steven Gillis

  69. The Relation Between Early Implantation and the Acquisition of Grammar

    Article • Cochlear Implants International, June 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Steven Gillis

  70. Quantifying the Development of Inflectional Diversity

    Article • First Language, May 2010, SAGE Publications

    Steven Gillis

  71. Betrouwbaarheid Van Spontane Kindertaalanalyses

    Article • Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen, January 2010, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  72. Merk toch hoe sterk - Sjwa-insertie in spontaan gesproken Standaardnederlands

    Article • Nederlandse taalkunde, April 2009, Amsterdam University Press

    Steven Gillis

  73. Language acquisition

    Article • January 2009, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  74. Fillers as signs of distributional learning

    Article • Journal of Child Language, September 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Steven Gillis

  75. The Characteristics of Prelexical Babbling After Cochlear Implantation Between 5 and 20 Months of Age

    Article • Ear & Hearing, August 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Steven Gillis

  76. Is epenthesis a means to optimize feet? A reanalysis of the CLPF database

    Article • Journal of Child Language, April 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Steven Gillis

  77. Core morphology in child directed speech: Crosslinguistic corpus analyses of noun plurals

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  78. Suprasegmental aspects of pre-lexical speech in cochlear implanted children

    Article • August 2007, International Speech Communication Association

    Steven Gillis

  79. Diminutives facilitate word segmentation in natural speech: Cross-linguistic evidence

    Article • Memory & Cognition, June 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steven Gillis

  80. Dutch plural inflection: The exception that proves the analogy☆

    Article • Cognitive Psychology, June 2007, Elsevier

    Steven Gillis

  81. 7. A longitudinal study of the acquisition of diminutives in Dutch

    Article • January 2007, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  82. 13. Diminutives provide multiple benefits for language acquisition

    Article • January 2007, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  83. Vowel labelling in a pluricentric language

    Article • Linguistics in the Netherlands, November 2006, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  84. Typological effects on spelling development: a crosslinguistic study of Hebrew and Dutch

    Article • Journal of Child Language, August 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Steven Gillis

  85. Notes on Ingram's whole-word measures for phonological development

    Article • Journal of Child Language, May 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Steven Gillis

  86. Diminutives in child-directed speech supplement metric with distributional word segmentation cues

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, February 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steven Gillis

  87. Language acquisition in children with a cochlear implant

    Article • January 2005, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  88. Normal Hearing and Language Development in a Deaf-Born Child

    Article • Otology & Neurotology, November 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Steven Gillis

  89. Babbling in early implanted CI children

    Article • International Congress Series, November 2004, Elsevier

    Steven Gillis

  90. Cochlear Implantation Between 5 and 20 Months of Age: The Onset of Babbling and the Audiologic Outcome

    Article • Otology & Neurotology, May 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Steven Gillis

  91. Using rule-induction techniques to model pronunciation variation in Dutch

    Article • Computer Speech & Language, January 2004, Elsevier

    Steven Gillis

  92. Language acquisition

    Article • July 2003, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  93. 10. Language-specific effects on the development of written morphology

    Article • January 2002, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  94. Root infinitives in Dutch early child language: an effect of input?

    Article • Journal of Child Language, October 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Steven Gillis

  95. Predicting Grammatical Classes from Phonological Cues

    Article • January 2001, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  96. A rule induction approach to modeling regional pronunciation variation

    Article • January 2000, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Steven Gillis

  97. The Acquisition of Dutch

    Article • May 1998, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis, Annick De Houwer, Professor Catherine E Snow

  98. William O'Grady. Syntactic Development

    Article • Functions of Language, January 1998, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  99. Introdution

    Article • January 1998, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  100. Data Mining as a Method for Linguistic Analysis: Dutch Diminutives

    Article • Folia Linguistica, January 1997, De Gruyter

    Steven Gillis

  101. Artificial intelligence

    Article • April 1995, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  102. Perspectives on Child Language

    Article • Belgian Journal of Linguistics, January 1987, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis, Annick De Houwer

  103. Introduction

    Article • Belgian Journal of Linguistics, January 1987, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis, Annick De Houwer

  104. Words and Categories at the Onset of Language Acquisition

    Article • Belgian Journal of Linguistics, January 1987, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  105. Le Long Cheminement Vers le Premier Emploi des Mots

    Article • Lingvisticae Investigationes, January 1986, John Benjamins

    Steven Gillis

  106. Language and communication during the second year of life

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, November 1985, Elsevier

    Steven Gillis

  107. Special issue on ‘pragmatic aspects of early lexical acquisition and development’

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, August 1985, Elsevier

    Steven Gillis

  108. A case study of the early acquisition of verbs in Dutch

    Article • De Gruyter

    Steven Gillis

  109. Teachers’ Perception of Spelling Patterns and Children’s Spelling Errors: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

    Article • De Gruyter

    Steven Gillis

  110. Child Language Data Exchange System

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Steven Gillis

  111. The prelinguistic stage

    Article • De Gruyter

    Steven Gillis