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In Preparation / Under review

  1. Ruan, Y., Orena, AJ, Byers-Heinlein, K. & Polka, L. (in prep). Changes in bilingual input across early development, Infant and Child Development.
  2. Dekarli, V., Sweatman, H., Beauchamp, M., Klein, D., Chai, X.J. (under review). The impact of bilingualism on self-referential processing in the developing brain.
  3. Kircher, R., Brouillard, M., Ahooja, A., Quirk, E., Ballinger, S., Polka, L., & Byers-Heinlein, K. (under review). The attitudes at the heart of multilingual family language policies. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/er7dk Repository: https://osf.io/rjeyh/

2026

  1. Gilbert A. C., Gullifer, J., Kousaie, S., Wolpert, M. A., Titone, D., & Baum, S. R. (2026). Finding the Key in Kiwi During L2 Spoken Production: Low Proficiency Speakers Sound More Native-Like if they Live in Mixed-Language Environments. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 80(1), 10–21. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000372
  2. Gilbert, A. C., Honda, C. T., Friedland-Yust, L., Sorin, C., & Baum, S. R. (2026). The influence of individual differences in language experience on lexical stress cue-weighting: native and non-native listeners. Brain and Language, 273: 105674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105674
  3. Quirk, E., Brouillard, M., Ahooja, A., Ballinger, S., Polka, L., Byers-Heinlein, K., & Kircher, R. (2026). A corpus-assisted discourse study of parental concerns regarding multilingual child-rearing. Journal of multilingual and multicultural development, 47(2), 1163-1181. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2024.2415384

2025

  1. ​Barbeau, E. B., Pierce, L., Deschamps, S., Kousaie, S., Gilbert, A. C., Chen, J.-K., Baum, S. R., & Klein, D. (2025). Early but discontinued exposure to a language exerts lasting effects on white matter architecture in the brain. Communications Biology, 8, 1575. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08954-4
  2. Doucerain, M. M., Benkirane, S., Hernández-Rivera, E., Senaldi, M., & Titone, D. (2025). Endorsing a Standard Language Ideology Complex moderates associations between LX use and proficiency among French learners in Canada. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1-17.
  3. Luk, G., Hernández-Rivera, E., Tarín, K., Chen, D., Jang, M., & Titone, D. (2025). Math attitudes and verbal memory in multilingual younger adults. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 79(2), 166–171. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000348
  4. Moore, C., Donhauser, P. W., Klein, D., & Byers-Heinlein, K. (2025). Efficient neural encoding as revealed by bilingualism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(34), e2513768122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2513768122
  5. Quirk, E., Langevin, A., Ahooja, A., Blumer, S., Ballinger, S., Brouillard, M., Polka, L., Byers-Heinlein, K., & Kircher, R. (2025). Calls for social justice through plurilingualism: Education-related family language policies among Quebec-based parents raising multilingual infants and toddlers. In M. Antony-Newman (Ed.), Plurilingualism in Educational Contexts: Centering Language for Social Justice. Routledge.

2024

  1. Ahooja, A., Brouillard, M., Quirk, E., Ballinger, S., Polka, L., Byers-Heinlein, K., & Kircher, R. (2024). Family language policy among Québec-based parents raising multilingual infants and toddlers: A study of resources as a form of language management. Journal of multilingual and multicultural development, 45(7), 2445-2464. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2022.2050918
  2. Feng, R. Y., Tiv, M., Kutlu, E., Gullifer, J. W., Palma, P., O’Regan, E., Vingron, N., Doucerain, M. M., & Titone, D. (2024). A systems approach to multilingual language attitudes: A case study of Montréal, Québec, Canada. International Journal of Bilingualism, 28(3), 454-478. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069221133305
  3. Garcia-Tabuenca Z*, Barbeau E, Kousaie S, Chen J, Chai X,, and Klein D. (2024). Enhanced efficiency in the bilingual brain through the inter-hemispheric cortico-cerebellar pathway in early second language acquisition Communications Biolology, 7(1), 1298. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06965-1
  4. Quirk, E., Brouillard, M., Ahooja, A., Ballinger, S., Polka, L., Byers-Heinlein, K., Kircher, R. (2024). A corpus-assisted discourse study of parental concerns regarding multilingual child-rearing, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development,  47(2), 1163–1181. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2024.2415384
  5. Quirk, E., Brouillard, M., Ahooja, A., Ballinger, S., Polka, L., Byers-Heinlein, K., & Kircher, R. (2024). Quebec-based parents’ concerns regarding their children’s multilingual development, International Journal of Multilingualism 21(3), 1476–1493. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2023.2184475

2023

  1. Feng, R. Y., Tiv, M., Kutlu, E., Gullifer, J. W., Palma, P., O’Regan, E., Vingron, N., Doucerain, M. M., & Titone, D. (2023). A systems approach to multilingual language attitudes: A case study of Montréal, Québec, Canada. International Journal of Bilingualism, 28(3), 454-478. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069221133305
  2. Gilbert, A. C., Lee, J. G., Wolpert, M., & Baum, S. R. (2023). Phrase parsing in a second language as indexed by the closure positive shift: The impact of language experience and acoustic cue salience. European Journal of Neuroscience, 58(8), 3838-3858. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16134
  3. Ruan, Y., Byers-Heinlein, K., Orena, A.J. & Polka, L. (2023). Mixed-language input and infant volubility – Friend or foe? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 26(5), 1051-1066. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1366728923000287
  4. Sander K, Chai X, Barbeau EB, Kousaie S, Petrides M, Baum S, & Klein D. (2023) Interhemispheric Functional Brain Connectivity Predicts New Language Learning Success in Adults. Cerebral cortex, 33(4), 1217–1229. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac131

2022

  1. Ballinger, S., Brouillard, M., Ahooja. A., Kircher, R., Polka, L., & Byers-Heinlein, K. (2022). Intersections of official and family language policy in Quebec. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 43(7), 614–628. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2020.1752699.
  2. Grant A, Coulter K, Kousaie s, Gilbert A, Baum S, Gracco V, Titone D , Klein D, & Phillips N. (2022). Age of acquisition modulates alpha power recruitment during bilingual speech comprehension in noise. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 865857. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.865857
  3. Kircher, R., *Quirk, E., Brouillard, M., Ahooja, A., Ballinger, S., Polka, L., & Byers-Heinlein, K. (2022). Quebec-based parents’ attitudes towards childhood multilingualism: Evaluative dimensions and potential predictors. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 41(5): 527-552. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X221078853
  4. Kremin, L. V., Alves, J., Orena, A. J., Polka, L., & Byers-Heinlein, K. (2022). Code-switching in parents' everyday speech to bilingual infants. Journal of child language, 49(4), 714–740. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000921000118
  5. Sander K*, Barbeau E, Chai X, Kousaie S, Petrides M, Baum S, Klein D. (2022) Frontoparietal Anatomical Connectivity Predicts Second Language Learning Success. Cerebral cortex, 32(12), 2602–2610. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab367
  6. Tiv, M., Kutlu, E., Gullifer, J. W., Feng, R. Y., Doucerain, M. M., & Titone, D. A. (2022). Bridging interpersonal and ecological dynamics of cognition through a systems framework of bilingualism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(9), 2128–2143. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001174

2021

  1. Byers-Heinlein, K., Tsui, A. S. M., Bergmann, C., Black, A. K., Brown, A., Carbajal, M. J., ... & Wermelinger, S. (2021). A multilab study of bilingual infants: Exploring the preference for infant-directed speech. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 4(1), 2515245920974622. https://doi-org/10.1177/2515245920974622
  2. Chauvin, A., Baum, S., & Phillips, N. A. (2021). Individuals With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease Benefit From Audiovisual Speech Cues and Supportive Sentence Context. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(5), 1550-1559. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00402
  3. Coulter, K., Gilbert, A.C., Kousaie, S., Baum, S., Gracco, V.L., Klein, D., Titone, D., & Phillips, N.A. (2021). Bilinguals benefit from semantic context while perceiving speech in noise in both of their languages: Electrophysiological evidence from the N400 ERP. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24(2):344-357. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728920000516
  4. Gilbert, A. C., Honda, C. T., Phillips, N. A., & Baum, S. R. (2021). Near native-like stress pattern perception in English-French bilinguals as indexed by the mismatch negativity. Brain and Language, 213: 104892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104892
  5. Gilbert, A. C., Lee, J. G., Coulter, K., Wolpert, M. A., Kousaie, S., Gracco, V. L., Klein, D., Titone, D., Phillips, N. A., & Baum, S. R. (2021). Spoken word segmentation in first and second language: When ERP and behavioral measures diverge. Frontiers in psychology, 12: 705668. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.705668
  6. Gullifer, J. W., Kousaie, S., Gilbert, A. C., Grant, A., Giroud, N., Coulter, K., Klein, D., Baum, S., Phillips, N.A., & Titone, D. (2021). Bilingual language experience as a multidimensional spectrum: Associations with objective and subjective language proficiency. Applied Psycholinguistics, 42(2), 245-278. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716420000521
  7. Häuser, K.I., Baum, S., & Titone, D. (2021). Effects of aging and non-canonical form presentation on idiom processing: Evidence from eye-tracking. Applied Psycholinguistics, 42(1):101-127.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716420000612.
  8. Kousaie, S., Chen, J. K., Baum, S. R., Phillips, N. A., Titone, D., & Klein, D. (2021). Bilingual language experience and the neural underpinnings of working memory. Neuropsychologia, 163:108081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108081
  9. Titone, D., Mercier, J., Sudarshan, A., Pivneva, I., Gullifer, J., & Baum, S. (2021). Spoken word processing in bilingual older adults: Assessing within-and cross-language competition using the visual world task. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 11(4), 578-610. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.18028.tit

2020


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2019

  1. Byers-Heinlein, K., Esposito, A., Winsler, A., Marian, V., Castro, D., & Luk, G. (2019). The case for measuring and reporting bilingualism in developmental research. Collabra: Psychology, 5(1), 37.
  2. Kousaie, S, Baum, S, Phillips, NA, Gracco V, Titone D, Chen JK, Chai XJ and Klein D. (2019). Language learning experience and mastering the challenges of perceiving speech in noise. Brain and Language. 196: 1-9.
  3. Orena, A.J., Byers-Heinlein, K., & Polka. L. (2019). Reliability of the Language Environment Analysis recording system in analyzing French-English bilingual speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(2), 2491–2500.
  4. Orena, A.J., Byers-Heinlein, K., & Polka. L. (2019). What do bilingual infants actually hear? Evaluating measures of speech input to bilingual-learning 10-month-olds. Developmental Science, 23:e12901.

2018

  1. Gullifer J, Chai XJ; Whitford V; Pivneva I; Baum S; Klein D; Titone D. (2018). Bilingual experience and resting-state brain connectivity: Impacts of L2 age of acquisition and social diversity of language use on control networks.Neuropsychologia. 117: 1

2017

  1. Itzhak, I., Vingron, N., Baum, S. & Titone, D. (2017). Bilingualism in the real world: How proficiency, emotion and personality in a second language impact communication in clinical and legal settings. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 3, 48
  2. Kousaie, S. Chai, X; Sander, K., Klein, D. (2017). Simultaneous learning of two languages from birth positively impacts intrinsic functional connectivity and cognitivecontrol. Brain and Cognition. 117: 49-56.
  3. Titone, D., Gullifer, J., Subramaniapillai, S., Rajah, N., & Baum, S. (2017). “History-inspired reflections on the bilingual advantages hypothesis.” In Bialystok & Sullivan (Eds), Growing old with two languages: Effects of bilingualism on cognitive aging. Amsterdam, NL: John Benjamins.

2016

  1. Barbeau, E.B. Chai, X. J., Chen, J.-K., Soles, J., Berken, J., Baum, S., Watkins, K.E., Klein, D. (2016). The role of the left inferior parietal lobule in second language learning: a twelve-week intensive language training fMRI study. Neuropsychologia.
  2. Berken J; Chai, X; Chen JK; Gracco, V and Klein D. (2016). Effects of early and late bilingualism on resting-state functional connectivity. Journal of Neuroscience. 36(4): 1165-1172.
  3. Chai, X; Barbeau, E.,Berken, J; Soles J; Callahan, M, Chen JK and Klein D. (2016). Intrinsic functional connectivity in the adult brain and success in second language learning. Journal of Neuroscience. 36(3): 755-761.
  4. Häuser, K., Titone, D. & Baum, S. (2016). The role of the ventro-lateral prefrontal cortex in idiom comprehension: An rTMS study. Neuropsychologia, 91, 360-370.

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