Drew Weatherhead

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

• Ryken, A., Tupper E.,听Weatherhead, D.听(2024). Learning linguistic diversity: Listeners have race based linguistic expectations, but only for phonological variation.听Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.听
• Weatherhead, D.,听& Werker, J. F. (2022). 20鈥恗onth鈥恛lds selectively generalize newly learned word meanings based on cues to linguistic community membership.听Developmental Science.听诲辞颈:听
• Weatherhead, D.,听& White, K. S. (2021).听Toddlers link social and speech variation during word learning.听Developmental Psychology,听57(8), 1195. 诲辞颈:听
• Weatherhead, D., Kandhadai, P., Hall, D. G., & Werker, J. F. (2021). Putting mutual exclusivity in context: Speaker race influences monolingual and bilingual infants鈥� word鈥恖earning assumptions.听Child Development, 92(5), 1735-1751.听
• Weatherhead, D.,听Nacar-Garcia, L., Arredondo, M.M.,听& Werker, J.F. (2021). The role of audiovisual speech in fast-mapping and novel word retention in monolingual and bilingual 24-month-olds.听Brain Sciences, 11(1), 114. 诲辞颈:听
• Weatherhead, D.听& White, K. S. (2018) And then I saw her race: Race-based expectations affects infants鈥� word processing.听听Cognition.听177,听87-97. 诲辞颈:听
• Weatherhead, D., White, K. S., & Friedman, O. (2016). Where are you from? Preschoolers infer background from accent.听Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,听143, 171-178. 诲辞颈:听