B.A.(1978) Linguistics (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada)
Ph.D.(1984) Psychology (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

The development of speech perception; lexical organization and growth in childhood; spoken word recognition by children; relations between spoken language abilities (including
phonological awareness) and early reading ability

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:

Walley, A.C. (2006). Speech Learning, lexical reorganization and the development of word recognition by native and non-native English speakers. In M.M. Munro & O.S. Bhon (Eds.), Festshrift for James E. Flege, in press.

Walley, A.C. Speech perception in childhood: (2005).  In D.B. Pisoni & R.E Remez (Eds.), Handbook of speech perception, pp.449-468. Oxford: Blackwell   Oxford: Blackwell.

Edwards, J.D. , Walley, A.C., & Ball, K.K. (2003). Phonological, visual and temporal
processing in adults with and without reading disability. Reading and Writing: An
Interdisciplinary Journal, 16, 737-758.

Vicente, S., Castro,S-L., & Walley, AC. A developmental analysis of similarity neighborhoods for European Portuguese Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2003, 22 11-133.

Imai, S., Walley, A.C., & Flege, J.E. (2005). Lexical frequency and neighborhood density effects on the recognition of native and Spanish-accented words by native English and Spanish listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, 896-907.

Walley, A.C., Metsala, J.L. & Garlock, V.M.  Spoken vocabulary growth: Its role in the development of phoneme awareness and early reading ability.  Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2003, 16, 5-20.

Garlock, V.M., Walley, A.C., & Metsala, J.L.  Age-of-acquisition, word frequency   and neighborhood density effects on spoken word recognition: Implications for the development of phoneme awareness and early reading ability.  Journal of Memory and  Language, 2001, 45, 468-492.

Walley, A.C. & Sloane, M.E. The perceptual magnet effect: A review of empirical findings and theoretical implications. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Advances in Psychology Research, pp. 65-92. Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2001.

Walley, A.C. & Flege, J.E. Effects of lexical status on the perception of native and nonnative vowels: A developmental study. Journal of Phonetics, 1999, 27, 307-332.

Metsala, J.L. & Walley, A.C. Spoken vocabulary growth and the segmental restructuring of lexical representations: Precursors to phonemic awareness and early reading ability. In J.L. Metsala & L.C. Ehri (Eds.), Word recognition in beginning literacy, pp. 89-120. NewYork: Erlbaum, 1998.

TEACHING INTERESTS:

Undergraduate

Developmental Psychology (PY212)
Cross-Cultural Perspective on Child Development (PY213)
Advanced Developmental Psychology (PY312)
Introduction to Language Development (PY313)
Seminar on Language Acquisition (PY450)

Graduate

Developmental Psychology (PY708)
Seminar on Language Development (PY713)