Jessica A Barlow

Professor, Speech Language
Director, Phonological Typologies Laboratory

Education

• PhD, Linguistics, Indiana University

Professional Memberships/Affiliations

• Linguistic Society of America
• American Speech Language Hearing Association

Academic Teaching Areas

• Phonetics and Phonology
• Phonological Acquisition and Disorders

Research Interests

Phonology, phonological acquisition and disorders, bilingualism.

Research Support

• NSF Creel (PI) 2012-2017: Effects of accent variability on language development in young children (Role: Consultant)
• Dirección de Investigación de Bogotá, Suarez Brand (PI) 2012: Caracterización del desarrollo fonológico del español en niños colombianos de 3 a 5 años (Role: Co-Investigator)
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation, Barlow (PI) 2007: Typological variation in phonetic inventory development
• NIH R03 Barlow (PI) 2002-2006: Variability and complexity in sound learning

Selected Publications

• Fabiano-Smith, L., Shuriff, R., Barlow, J.A., & Goldstein, B.A. (in press). Dialect density in bilingual Puerto Rican Spanish-English speaking children. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
• Freedman, S.E., & Barlow, J.A. (in press). Effects of neighborhood density on adult word repetition. International Journal of Linguistics, 3. doi:10.5539/ijel.v3n2p1.
• Barlow, J.A., Branson, P.E., & Nip, I.S.B. (2013). Phonetic equivalence in the acquisition of /l/ by Spanish-English bilingual children.Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 16, 68-85. doi: 10.1017/S1366728912000235.
• Freedman, S., & Barlow, J.A. (2012). Using whole-word production measures to determine the influence of phonotactic probability and neighborhood density on bilingual speech production. International Journal of Bilingualism, 16 (4), 369-387. doi: 10.1177/1367006911425815
• Cummings, A.E., & Barlow, J.A. (2011). A comparison of word lexicality in the treatment of speech sound disorders. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. 25: 265-286. PMID: 21158502. doi:10.3109/02699206.2010.528822.
• Fabiano-Smith, L., & Barlow, J.A. (2010). Interaction in bilingual phonological acquisition: Evidence from phonetic inventories.International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 13: 81-97. PMID: 20126516. doi: 10.1080/13670050902783528.
• Torre, III, P., & Barlow, J.A. (2009). Age-related changes in acoustic characteristics of adult speech. Journal of Communication Disorders. 42: 324-333. PMID: 19394957. doi:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2009.03.001.
• Cataño, L., Barlow, J.A., & Moyna, M.I. (2009). A retrospective study of phonetic inventory complexity in acquisition of Spanish: Implications for phonological universals. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. 23: 446-472. PMID: 19504400. doi:10.1080/02699200902839818.
• Barlow, J.A. (2008). A typological evaluation of the split-margin approach to syllable structure in phonological acquisition. In Dinnsen, D.A., & Gierut, J.A. (editors), Advances in optimality theory: Optimality theory, phonological acquisition and disorders. London: Equinox, 407-426.
• Barlow, J.A., & Keare, A.R. (2008) Acquisition of final voicing: An acoustic and theoretical account. In Farris-Trimble, A.W., & Dinnsen, D.A. (editors), IUWPL6: Phonological opacity effects in optimality theory. Bloomington, IN: IULC Publications, 81-97.
• Barlow, J.A. (2007) Grandfather effects: A longitudinal case study of the phonological acquisition of intervocalic consonants in English.Language Acquisition. 14: 121-164. doi: 10.1080/10489220701353818.

Recommended Links

• Linguistics at Indiana University
• Linguistic Society of America
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association