Katherine S. White
List of John Benjamins publications in which Katherine S. White is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 7. Grammar policing children: Does gender matter? Variation in Language Acquisition: Unity in diversity, Rosseel, Laura and Eline Zenner (eds.), pp. 142–153 | Chapter
In western societies, women’s speech tends to be scrutinized/policed more than men’s, with stigmatized features like uptalk, creaky voice, and the discourse marker like associated primarily with women (despite also being used by men). Here, we explored the developmental roots of this phenomenon,… read more
2011 Learning the meaning of “um”: Toddlers' developing use of speech disfluencies as cues to speakers' referential intentions Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a first language, Arnon, Inbal and Eve V. Clark (eds.), pp. 91–106 | Article
Previous research has uncovered various contextual and social cues that children may use to infer speakers' communicative intentions (e.g. joint visual attention, pointing). We review evidence from eye-tracking studies that suggests that by 2;6 years of age, children use another previously… read more