Publications

Diversity and Inclusion

Ethical and epistemic costs of a lack of geographical and cultural diversity in developmental science. Singh, L., Basnight-Brown, D., Cheon, B.K., Garcia, R., Killen, M., & Mazuka, R. (2025). Developmental Psychology, 61(1), 1–18.

Generalizability and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing: Considerations for future research. Singh, L., (2024). Infant Behavior and Development, 77, 101998.

A vision for a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and representative developmental science. Singh, L. (2024). Developmental Science. e13548

The home literacy environment mediates effects of socio-economic status on infant vocabulary development. Singh, L., Yeung, J-Y, Cheng, Q.Q., & Heng, E. (2023). Developmental Science, 26(4), e13349.

Diversity and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing. Singh, L., Rajendra, S., & Mazuka, R. (2022). Child Development Perspectives, 16(4), 191-199.

Navigating equity and justice in international collaborations. Singh, L. (2022). Nature Reviews Psychology, 1, 372-373

Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: The ManyBabies model. Vissar, I., Bergmann, C., Byers-Heinlein, K., Dan Ben., R., Duch, W., Forbes, S., Franchin, L., Frank, M.C., Geraci, A., Hamlin, J.K., Kaldy, Z., Kulke, L., Laverty, C., Lew-Williams, C., Mateu, V., Mayor, J., Moreau, D., Nomikou, I., Schuwerk, T., Simpson, E.A., Singh, L., Soderstrom, M., Sullivan, J., van den Heuvel, M.I., Westermann, G., Yamada, Y., Zaadnoordijk, L., & Zettersten, M. (2022). Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 45, e35.

Multi/bilingualism

Effects of environmental diversity on exploration and learning: The case of bilingualism. Singh, L., Barr, R., Quinn, P.C., Kalashnikova, M., Hidalgo-Rocha, J.R., Freda, K., & D’Souza, D. (2024). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 10.1037/xge0001562.

The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross-linguistic, multi-lab report. Kalashnikova, M., Singh, L., & other contributing authors (2023). Developmental Science. e13459
M. Kalashnikova and L. Singh share joint first authorship. 

Bilingual infants readily orient to novel visual stimuli. Singh, L., Kalashnikova, M., & Quinn, P.C. (2023). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(11), 3218-3228.

Effects of face masks on language comprehension in bilingual children. Singh, L., & Quinn, P.C. (2023). Infancy, 28(4), 738-753.

Words in context: Compensation for phonological assimilation in monolingual and bilingual toddlers. Singh, L., & Cheng, Q.Q. (2023). First Language, 43(3).

Sensitivity to visual cues within motion events in monolingual and bilingual infants. Singh, L., Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R.M. (2023). Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 227, 105582.

The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups. Liu, L., Lai, R., Singh, L., Kalashnikova, M., Wong, P.C.M., Kasisopa, B., Chen, A., Burnham, D.B. (2022). Brain and Language, 229, 105106.

Language acquisition in a multilingual society: English vocabulary norms and predictors in Singaporean children. Singh, L., Cheng, Q.Q., Tan, S.H., Tan, A., & Low, Y.L. (2022). Child Development, 93(1), 288-305.

Evidence for an early novelty orientation in bilingual learners. Singh, L. (2021). Child Development Perspectives, 15, 110-116.

Infants recognize words spoken through opaque masks but not through clear masks. Singh, L. Tan, A., & Quinn, P.C. (2021). Developmental Science, 26, e13117.