Elika Bergelson | Scholars@Duke

Elika Bergelson
Crandall Family Assistant Professor

Dr. Bergelson is accepting applications for PhD students in the 2018-2019 Cycle; she accepts through the Developmental and Cog/CogNeuro areas of P&N and the CNAP program.

In my research, I try to understand the interplay of processes during language acquisition.
In particular, I am interested in how word learning relates to other aspects of learning language (i.e. speech sound acquisition), and social/cognitive development more broadly (e.g. joint attention processes) in the first two years of life.

I pursue these questions using two main approaches: in-lab measures of early comprehension and production (mostly with eye-tracking experiments), and at-home measures of infants' linguistic and social environment (as in the SEEDLingS project)

Office Hours

By appointment.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Crandall Family Assistant Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018 - 2020
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016
Assistant Professor in the Program in Linguistics, Linguistics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018
Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, University Institutes and Centers 2019

Contact Information

210 Soc-Psych Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708
elika.bergelson@duke.edu (919) 660-8753
webpage

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 2013
Duke Appointment History
- Scholar in Residence in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016
Recognition
In the News
- NOV 20, 2017
  
  Car, Stroller, Juice: Babies Understand When Words Are Related
Awards & Honors
Research
Selected Grants
- CAREER: Understanding Early Language: Evidence from Blind Infants & Deaf Infants awarded by National Science Foundation 2019 - 2024
- Analyzing Child Language Experiences Around the World (ACLEW) awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2017 - 2020
- Mechanisms of Word Learning in Infancy awarded by National Institutes of Health 2014 - 2019
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Bergelson, E., Amatuni, A., Dailey, S., Koorathota, S., & Tor, S. (2019). Day by day, hour by hour: Naturalistic language input to infants.. Developmental Science, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12715
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  - Bergelson, E., Casillas, M., Soderstrom, M., Seidl, A., Warlaumont, A. S., & Amatuni, A. (2019). What Do North American Babies Hear? A large-scale cross-corpus analysis.. Developmental Science, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12724
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  - Laing, C. E., & Bergelson, E. (2019). Mothers' Work Status and 17-month-olds' Productive Vocabulary.. Infancy : The Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, 24(1), 101–109. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12265
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  - Bergelson, E., & Swingley, D. (2018). Young Infants' Word Comprehension Given An Unfamiliar Talker or Altered Pronunciations.. Child Development, 89(5), 1567–1576. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12888
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  - Amatuni, A., He, E., & Bergelson, E. (2018). Preserved Structure Across Vector Space Representations.. Corr, abs/1802.00840.
  - Bergelson, E., & Aslin, R. N. (2017). Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6-mo-olds.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(49), 12916–12921. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1712966114
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  - Frank, M. C., Bergelson, E., Bergmann, C., Cristia, A., Floccia, C., Gervain, J., … Yurovsky, D. (2017). A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building. Infancy, 22(4), 421–435. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12182
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  - Bergelson, E., & Aslin, R. (2017). Semantic Specificity in One-Year-Olds' Word Comprehension.. Language Learning and Development : The Official Journal of the Society for Language Development, 13(4), 481–501. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2017.1324308
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  - VanDam, M., Warlaumont, A. S., Bergelson, E., Cristia, A., Soderstrom, M., De Palma, P., & MacWhinney, B. (2016). HomeBank: An Online Repository of Daylong Child-Centered Audio Recordings.. Seminars in Speech and Language, 37(2), 128–142. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1580745
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  - Bergelson, E., & Swingley, D. (2015). Early Word Comprehension in Infants: Replication and Extension.. Language Learning and Development : The Official Journal of the Society for Language Development, 11(4), 369–380. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2014.979387
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  - Bergelson, E., & Swingley, D. (2013). The acquisition of abstract words by young infants.. Cognition, 127(3), 391–397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2013.02.011
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  - Bergelson, E., & Swingley, D. (2013). Young toddlers' word comprehension is flexible and efficient.. Plos One, 8(8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073359
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  - Bergelson, E., Shvartsman, M., & Idsardi, W. J. (2013). Differences in mismatch responses to vowels and musical intervals: MEG evidence.. Plos One, 8(10). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076758
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  - Bergelson, E., & Swingley, D. (2012). At 6-9 months, human infants know the meanings of many common nouns.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(9), 3253–3258. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1113380109
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  - Bergelson, E., & Idsardi, W. J. (2009). A neurophysiological study into the foundations of tonal harmony.. Neuroreport, 20(3), 239–244. https://doi.org/10.1097/wnr.0b013e32831ddebf
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  - Poeppel, D., & Bergelson, E. (2008). How music speaks to us. Nature, 452(7188), 695–696. https://doi.org/10.1038/452695a
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- Conference Papers
  - Ryanta, N., Bergelson, E., Church, K., Cristia, A., Du, J., Ganapathy, S., … Yu, Z. (2018). Enhancement and analysis of conversational speech: JSALT 2017. In Icassp, Ieee International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings (Vol. 2018-April, pp. 5154–5158). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2018.8462468
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  - Amatuni, A., & Bergelson, E. (2017). Semantic Networks Generated from Early Linguistic Input.. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Cogsci. cognitivesciencesociety.org.
  - Bergelson, E., Amatuni, A., Casillas, M., Seidl, A., Soderstrom, M., & Warlaumont, A. S. (2017). Description of the Homebank Child/Adult Addressee Corpus (HB-CHAAC).. In F. Lacerda (Ed.), Interspeech. ISCA.
  - Casillas, M., Amatuni, A., Seidl, A., Soderstrom, M., Warlaumont, A. S., & Bergelson, E. (2017). What do babies hear? Analyses of child-and adult-directed speech. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech (Vol. 2017-August, pp. 2093–2097). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1409
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  - Casillas, M., Bergelson, E., Warlaumont, A. S., Cristia, A., Soderstrom, M., VanDam, M., & Sloetjes, H. (2017). A new workflow for semi-Automatized annotations: Tests with long-form naturalistic recordings of childrens language environments. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech (Vol. 2017-August, pp. 2098–2102). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1418
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  - Laing, C., & Bergelson, E. (2017). More Siblings Means Lower Input Quality in Early Language Development.. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.), Cogsci. cognitivesciencesociety.org.
  - Schuller, B., Steidl, S., Batliner, A., Bergelson, E., Krajewski, J., Janott, C., … Zafeiriou, S. (2017). The INTERSPEECH 2017 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: Addressee, Cold & Snoring. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech (Vol. 2017-August, pp. 3442–3446). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-43
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  - Warlaumont, A. S., VanDam, M., Bergelson, E., & Cristia, A. (2017). Home Bank: A repository for long-form real-world audio recordings of children. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech (Vol. 2017-August, pp. 815–816). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-2051
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  - Bergelson, E. (2016). Workshop on Corpus Collection, (Semi)-Automated Analysis, and Modeling of Large-Scale Naturalistic Language Acquisition Data.. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J. C. Trueswell (Eds.), Cogsci. cognitivesciencesociety.org.
  - Metze, F., Riebling, E., Warlaumont, A. S., & Bergelson, E. (2016). Virtual machines and containers as a platform for experimentation. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech (Vol. 08-12-September-2016, pp. 1603–1607). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2016-997
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  - Bergelson, E., & Swingley, D. (2013). Social and Environmental Contributors to Infant Word Learning.. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Cogsci. cognitivesciencesociety.org.
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  - Bergelson, E., & Idsardi, W. J. (2009). Structural Biases in Phonology: Infant and Adult Evidence from Artificial Language Learning. In J. Chandlee, M. Franchini, S. Lord, & G. M. Rheiner (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vols 1 and 2 (pp. 85-+). Boston, MA: CASCADILLA PRESS.
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Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
- LINGUIST 437S: Language Development 2019
- NEUROSCI 494: Research Independent Study 2 2019
- PSY 437S: Language Development 2019
- PSY 737S: Language Development 2019
- NEUROSCI 493: Research Independent Study 1 2018
- PSY 755: Research Practicum 2018
- PSY 756: Research Practicum 2018
- PSY 494: Research Independent Study 2017
- PSY 690S: Special Topics in Psychology 2017
Advising & Mentoring
- Charlotte Moore (Ph.D. Student, 2016-)
  Shannon Dailey (Ph.D. Student, 2017-)
  Erin Campbell (Ph.D. Student, 2018-)
  
  Catherine Laing (PostDoc, 2016-2017, now faculty at Cardiff)
  Federica Bulgarelli (PostDoc, 2018-)
  Stephan Meylan (Postdoc, joinly mentored with Roger Levy at MIT, 2018-)
  (see bergelsonlab.com for further information on mentees and undergraduate RAs)
Available to mentor:
- PhD
- Undergraduate

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Duke Appointment History

In the News

Awards & Honors

Selected Grants

Selected Publications

Academic Articles

Conference Papers

Recent Courses

Advising & Mentoring

Available to mentor: