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Sudha Arunachalam

Assistant Professor of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences at Boston University

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    Sudha Arunachalam is an Assistant Professor of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences within College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College.

    Professor Arunachalam’s research interests include language acquisition and language processing in young children (infants, toddlers, and preschoolers). She is particularly interested in how children acquire lexical and event semantic properties of verbs, how they represent these along with their syntactic properties, and how they access these representations during online comprehension.

    Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Autism Speaks, the American Philosophical Society, the Sleep Research Society Foundation, and the Language Learning journal.

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    How do babies learn to talk?

    July 7, 2015

    MPR News Sudha Arunachalam, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College Babies can learn whatever language (or languages) they’re exposed to. But how do they do it?… Expert quote: “They understand so much more than they say. And they are listening very, very carefully. They are listening for patterns in what you say and […]

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    Where did language come from?

    July 1, 2015

    Minnesota Public Radio “Brain’s On” Sudha Arunachalam, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College Where did language come from? Is it possible to know without traveling back in time? And how do babies learn to speak?… Listen to audio of expert Sudha Arunachalam 

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    Helping toddlers acquire language: Understanding verb meanings

    June 12, 2014

    Examiner.com Sudha Arunachalam, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College A new study from Chicago’s Northwestern University provides clues to how toddlers acquire an understanding of verb meanings… Expert quote: “The results offer two insights. First, by age 2, toddlers have the remarkable ability to learn new verbs with very little exposure and apply them in […]

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    Infants easily acquire new words across cultures

    December 5, 2013

    Health & Beauty News Sudha Arunachalam, School of Medicine According to study conducted at Northwestern University proves that infants acquire and learn different languages very easily… Expert quote: “Almost all of the research on infants acquiring these ‘verb-friendly’ languages has looked at the nouns and verbs that they produce in their daily lives. By using […]

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    Toddlers can understand words just by hearing them

    November 17, 2013

    Business Standard Sudha Arunachalam, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College Toddlers may be able to establish meanings of new words just by overhearing them, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have found… Expert quote: “The only information provided was linguistic. Our goal was to determine whether 2-year-olds, on hearing new verbs in informative sentences, could […]

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    How Infants Acquire New Words Across Cultures

    October 18, 2013

    The Hearing Review Sudha Arunachalam, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College Infants show strong universals as they acquire their native language, but a recent study with infants acquiring Korean also reveals that there are striking language differences… Expert quote: “Almost all of the research on infants acquiring these “verb-friendly” languages has looked at […]

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    Who Needs Nouns? How Toddlers Learn to Speak

    October 1, 2013

    Time Sudha Arunachalam, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College Children acquire language in very different ways depending on their native tongue. That can make a big difference for kids with learning disabilities… Expert quote: “We preserve the action but use a new object in one case and we preserve the object but with […]

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