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Publications

Journal Articles

*Peer Reviewed

*Gildersleeve-Neumann, C.L., Stubbe-Kester, E., Davis, B.L., & Pena, E. (2007, in press). Phonological development in three-to four-year old children from bilingual Spanish/English and monolingual Spanish and English environments. Language, Speech, & Hearing Services in the Schools.

*Gildersleeve-Neumann, C.L., Pena, E.., Davis, B.L., & Kester, E (in press, 2007). Effects on L1 during Early Acquisition of L2: Speech Changes in Spanish at First English Contact. International Journal of Bilingualism.

*Lee, S.., Davis, B.L. & MacNeilage, P.F. (in press, 2007). Perceptual influences on serial organization patterns in Korean-learning infants Phonetica.

*Lee, S., Davis, B. L. & MacNeilage, P.F. (2006). On the phonetic characteristics of input speech: A study of Korean, Journal of Child Language.

*vonHapsburg, D., Davis, B.L. & MacNeilage, P.F. (2007, in press) Frame Dominance in Infants with Hearing Loss, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

*Von Hapsburg, D. & Davis, B.L. (2006). Exploring the Effect of Auditory Sensitivity on Canonical Babbling, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Vol. 49, pp 809-822

*Serkhane, J.E., Schwartz, J.L., Boë, L J., Davis,B. L., Matyear, C.L. (2007). Infants’ vocalizations analyzed with an articulatory model: A preliminary report, Journal of Phonetics. Vol. 35, pp 321-340.

*Jacks, A., Marquardt, T & Davis, B.L. (2006). Consonant Patterns in Developmental Apraxia of Speech Journal of Communication Disorders.

*Davis, B.L. McCaffrey, H., Von Hapsburg, D, & Warner-Czyz, A. (2005). Perceptual influences on Motor Control: Infants with varied Hearing Levels, Volta Review. Vol. 105 (1), 7-27.

*Warner-Czyz-, A., Davis, B.L. & Morrison, H. (2005). Early Production Accuracy in a Young Cochlear Implant Recipient, Volta Review 105(1), 151-173.

*Davis, B.L. & MacNeilage, P.F. (2005). The frame/content theory of speech evolution: from lip smacks to syllables, Invited submission, Primatologie. Vol. 6, pp.305-328.

*MacNeilage, P.F. & Davis, B.L. (2005). Invited submission, Functional Organization of Speech Across the Life Span: A Critique of Generative Phonology, Linguistics Review, 22 161-181.

MacNeilage, P F. & Davis, B. L., (2005). The Frame/Content Theory of Evolution of Speech: A Comparison with a Gestural-Origins Alternative, Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems. Vol. 6:2, 173-199.

*Davis, B.L., Marquardt, T.P. & Jacks, A. (2004). Vowel Patterns in Developmental Apraxia of Speech: A longitudinal analysis, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 19 (4), 249-274.

*Redford, M. A. Davis, B.L. & Miikkulainen, R. (2004). Phonetic Variability and Prosodic Structure in Baby Talk Speech, Infant Behavior and Development. Vol 27, 477-498.

MacNeilage, P.F. & Davis, B.L., (2004), Baby talk and the emergence of first words. (Commentary on Falk, D. Prelinguistic evolution in early hominids: Whence motherese.) Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

MacNeilage, P. F. & Davis, B. L., (2004). Invited Commentary, Evolutionary Sleight of Hand: Then, They Saw it; Now, We Don’t, Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

MacNeilage, P.F. & Davis, B.L. (2004), Invited Commentary, Message and medium: Lowly and action-related origins. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

*Marquardt, T.P., Jacks, A. & Davis, B.L. (2004). Token to Token Variability in Developmental Apraxia of Speech: Three longitudinal case studies, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. Vol. 18 (2), 127-144.

*Teixeira, E. R. & Davis, B.L. (2002). Early Sound Patterns in the Speech of Two Brazilian Portuguese Speakers, Language & Speech, 45 (2), 179-204

*Davis, B. L., MacNeilage P.F. & Matyear, C. (2002). Acquisition of serial complexity in speech production: A Comparison of Phonetic and Phonological Approaches to First Word Production. Phonetica, 59, 75-107.

*Serkhane, J., Schwartz, J-L., Boe, L.J., Davis, B.L., Bessiere, P., & Matyear, C. (2002). Premiere etude comparative de vocalizations de bebes humains et de bebes robots, Journées d'Etudes sur la parole, 22-28.

McCaffrey, H.A. & Davis, B.L. (2002). Listening in Motion: The Content and Structure of Baby Babble, The Listener.

MacNeilage, P.F. & Davis, B.L. (2001). Motor mechanisms in speech ontogeny: Phylogenetic and neural implications. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 11, 567-569.

*MacNeilage,P.F. & Davis, B.L (2001). Evolution of the form of spoken words, Evolution.

MacNeilage, P.F. & Davis, B.L. (2001). Commentary: The role of rhythmic cyclicities in infant action development, Developmental Science. 4 (1) 79-83.

*MacNeilage, P.F. & Davis, B.L. (2000). Origin of the Internal Structure of Words. Science. 288, 527-531.

*Davis, B.L. & Velleman, S. L. (2000). Differential diagnosis of developmental apraxia of speech in Infants and Toddlers. .Invited paper, Infant Toddler Intervention. 177-192.

*MacCaffrey, H., Davis, B.L., MacNeilage, P.F. & Von Hapsburg, D (2000). Effects of Multichannel Cochlear Implantation on the Organization of Early Speech. Invited paper, Volta Review, 5-29.

*Davis, B.L. & MacNeilage, P.F. (2000). An embodiment perspective on the acquisition of speech perception.. Special Issue. Phonetica. 57, 229-241.

*MacNeilage, P.F. & Davis, B.L (2000). Deriving speech from non-speech: A view from ontogeny, Special Issue, Phonetica. 57,284-296.

*Davis, B.L., MacNeilage, P.F., Matyear, C.L. & Powell, J., (2000). Prosodic correlates of stress in babbling: An acoustical study. Child Development. Vol. 71, (5) 1258-1270.

*Gildersleeve-Neumann, C.E., Davis, B.L. & MacNeilage, P.F. (2000). Contingencies governing production of for fricatives, affricates and liquids in babbling. Applied Psycholinguistics. 21-341-363.

*MacNeilage, P.F., Davis, B.L., Kinney, A. & Matyear, C.M. (2000). The motor core of speech: A comparison of serial organization patterns in infants and languages. Invited submission to Special Millenium Issue. Child Development. 71 (1), 153-163.

*MacNeilage, P.F., Davis, B.L., Matyear, C.M. & Kinney, A. (1999). Origin of Speech Output Complexity in Infants and in Languages. Psychological Science . 10 (5) 459-460.

*Vihman, M.M., DePaolis, R. & Davis, B.L. (1998). Is There a “Trochaic Bias” in Early Word Learning? Evidence from Infant Production in English and French, Child Development., Vol. 69 (4). 935-949.

*Davis, B.L. (1998). Review of Marc Hauser, The Evolution of Communication, Journal of Child Language. 96, 88-93.

Davis, B.L. (1998). Differential Diagnosis of Developmental Apraxia of Speech, American Speech, Language & Hearing Association, Special Interest Group #1.

*Davis, B.L., Jakielski, K.J. & Marquardt, T. P. (1998). Developmental apraxia of speech: Determiners of differential diagnosis. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. Vol 12, (1) 25-45.

*Davis, B.L. (1998). Consistency of consonant patterns by word position. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. Vol 12 (4), pp 329-348

MacNeilage, P.F., Davis B.L. & Matyear, C. (1997). Phonetic Regression in First Words? Speech Communication, Special Issue,22.

*Redford, M.L., MacNeilage, P.F. & Davis, B.L. (1997). Perceptual and motor influences on final consonant inventories in babbling. Phonetica. 54, 172-186.

*Zlatic, L. MacNeilage, P.F., Matyear, C.L. & Davis, B.L. (1997). Babbling of twins in a bilingual environment. Applied Psycholinguistics 18(4) 453-469.

*Matyear, C. MacNeilage, P.F. & Davis B.L. (1997). Nasalization of vowels in nasal environments in babbling: Evidence for frame dominance. Phonetica. 55, 1-17.

*VanKleeck, A., Gillam, R. & Davis, B.L. (1997). When is “Watch and See” warrented? A response to Paul’s 1996 article, “Clinical implications of the natural history of slow expressive language development” American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 6, 34-39.

*Alberts, F., Davis, B.L., & Prentice, L. (1995). Validation of an observation screening instrument in a multicultural population. Journal of Early Intervention, 29, 104-115.

*Davis, B.L. & MacNeilage, P.F. (1995). The articulatory basis of babbling. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research,38, 1199-1211.

*Davis, B.L. & MacNeilage, P.F. (1994). Organization of Babbling: A case study. Language & Speech, 37 (4), 341-355.

*Lindblom, B., Brownlee, S., Davis, B.L. & Moon, S-J. (1992). Speech transforms. Speech Communication, Special Issue, 11, 22-34.

Davis, B.L. (1991). Vowel information in Baby Talk. Perilus, Stockholm University, Sweden, 20-25.

*Davis, B.L. & MacNeilage, P.F. (1990). The acquisition of vowels: a case study. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research ,33,16-27.

Marquardt, T. P., Dunn, C., & Davis, B.L. (1985). Apraxia of speech in children. In Darby, John K. (ed.), Speech and Language Evaluation in Neurology, New York: Grune & Stratton,113-132.

*Dunn, C. & Davis, B.L. (1983). Phonological process use in phonologically disordered children. Applied Psycholinguistics, 4, 187-201.

In revision (2007):

*Dolata, Jill K., Davis, Barbara L. & MacNeilage, Peter F. Characteristics of the Rhythmic Organization of Babbling: Implications for an Amodal Linguistic Rhythm (Infant Behavior and Development)

*Warner-Czyz, A. & Davis, B.L. The emergence of segmental accuracy in young cochlear implant recipients (Cochlear Implant International)

*Byrd, C. & Davis, B.L. Semantic and phonological encoding of developmental versus acquired stuttering (Journal of Fluency Disorders).

*Gildersleeve-Neumann, Davis, B.L. & MacNeilage, P.F. Serial Trends in Acquisition of Quichua.(Language and Speech)

Book Chapters

Davis, B.L. (in press, 2007). Speech Acquisition in Hardcastle, W. & Laver, J. Handbook of Phonetic Sciences, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

Kern, S. & Davis, BL. (in press, 2007). Emergent complexity in early vocal acquisition: Cross-linguistic comparisons of canonical babbling. In Chirotan, I. Coupé, C., Marsico, E. & Pellegrino, F. Approaches to Phonological Complexity, Phonology and Phonetics Series, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Davis, B.L. & Bedore, L. (2007). Articulatory and Phonological Disorders: In R.G. Gillam, T. Marquardt, & F. Martin (eds.) Communication Sciences and Disorders: From research to clinical practice. Austin: Pro-Ed.

Kern, S., Davis, B., MacNeilage, P., Koçbas, D., Kuntay, A. & Zink, I., (in press), Cross-linguistic similarities and differences in babbling: Phylogenetic implications, in Towards the origins of language and languages., Hombert, J.M. (ed).

Byrd, C., Wolk, L. & Davis, B.L. (2006). Moving towards an understanding of the phonological pieces of the stuttering puzzle. In R. Curlee & E. Conture (Eds.), Stuttering and Related Disorders, 3rd edition. Philadelphia, PA: Thieme Medical.

Davis, B.L. (2006). Applications of Typical developmental information to understanding of clinical speech delay or disorder, The International Guide to Speech Acquisition, McLeod , S. & Bliehle, K. (Eds.) Delmar-Thompson Learning.

Davis, B.L., (2005). Clinical Diagnosis of Developmental Speech Disorders, In Kamhi, A.G. & Pollock, K.E. (Eds.) Phonological Disorders in Children: Assessment and Intervention

Davis, B.L., (2005). Goal and Target Selection for Developmental Speech Disorders, In Kamhi, A.G. & Pollock, K.E. (Eds.) Phonological Disorders in Children: Assessment and Intervention

MacNeilage, P. F. and Davis, B. L., (2005). The Evolution of Language and Speech Evolutionary Psychology Handbook, MIT Press.

MacNeilage, P.F. & Davis, B.L. (2003). A cognitive-motor frame for speech: evidence from psychopathology. In "A Figure of Speech: A Festschrift for John Laver", Eds. W. J. Hardcastle and J. Beck Mahweh, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Davis, B.L. (2003). Developmental Apraxia of Speech. In Kent, R. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Communication Sciences and Disorders. MIT Press.

Davis, B.L. & MacNeilage, P.F. (2002). The Internal Structure of the Syllable: An Ontogenetic Perspective on Origins in Givon, T. & Malle, B (Eds.) The Rise of Language out of Pre-language. John Benjamin Publ.

Davis, B.L. (2002). Review of D. Kimbrough Oller, The Emergence of the Speech Capacity, Journal of Linguistics, 38, 441-462. MacNeilage, P.F & Davis, B.L. (2002). On The Origins of Intersyllabic Complexity. In Malle, B. (Ed.) The Rise of Language out of Pre-language, Benjamin

Marquardt, T. P., Sussman, H.M. & Davis, B.L. (2001). Developmental apraxia of speech: Advances in theory and practice in Vogel, D. & Cannito, M.P. (Eds.) Treating Disordered Speech Motor Control, 2nd Edition, Pro-Ed.

Pena, E. & Davis, B.L. (2000). Language disorders. In R.G. Gillam, T. Marquardt, & F. Martin (eds.) Communication Sciences and Disorders From research to clinical practice. Austin: Pro-Ed.

Davis, B.L. & Bedore, L. (2000). Articulatory and Phonological Disorders: In R.G. Gillam, T. Marquardt, & F. Martin (eds.) Communication Sciences and Disorders. From research to clinical practice. Austin: Pro-Ed.

Davis, B.L. & Lindblom, B. (2000). Prototype formation in speech development and phonetic variability in Baby Talk. In Lacerda, F., Von Hofsten, C. & Heineman, M., (eds.) Emerging Cognitive Abilities in Infancy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 59-71.

MacNeilage, P.F. & Davis, B.L. (2000). Evolution of speech. In J.R. Hurford, C. Knight & M.G. Studdert-Kennedy (Eds) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Evolution of Speech, London.

Smith, M., Marquardt, T. P., Cannito, M. & Davis, B.L. (1993). Vowel variability in developmental apraxia of speech. In Till, J. (ed.) Motor Speech Disorders and Speech Motor Control, Baltimore: Brooks, 81-90.

MacNeilage, P.F. & Davis, B.L. (1993). A motor learning perspective on speech and babbling. In Boysson-Bardies,B., Schoen,S., Jusczyk, P., MacNeilage, P. & Morton, J. (eds.) Changes in speech and face processing in infancy: A glimpse at developmental mechanisms of cognition. Dordredcht: Kluwer, 341-352.

*Davis, B.L. & Lindblom, B. (1992). Some acoustic properties of baby talk and the prototype effect in infant speech perception. In Rolf, L.H., Jonker, A. & Wind, J. Studies in Language Origins, Vol.4, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 45-53.

MacNeilage, P.F. & Davis, B.L. (1990). Acquisition of speech production: Achievement of segmental independence. In Hardcastle, W.I. & Marchal A. (eds.) Speech Production and Speech Modeling, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 55-68.

*MacNeilage, P.F. & Davis B.L. (1990). Acquisition of speech production: Frames, then content. In Jeannerod, M. (ed.) Attention and Performance XIII; Motor Representation and Control, Hillsdale, N.J.: LEA, 452-468.