Elika Bergelson, Crandall Family Assistant Professor

Please note: Elika has left the "Linguistics" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Dr. Bergelson accepts PhD applicants through the Developmental and Cog/CogNeuro areas of P&N and the CNAP program.

In my research, I try to understand the interplay of processes during language acquisition.
In particular, I am interested in how word learning relates to other aspects of learning language (e.g. speech sound acquisition, grammar/morphology learning), and social/cognitive development more broadly (e.g. joint attention processes) in the first few years of life.

I pursue these questions using three main approaches: in-lab measures of early comprehension and production (eye-tracking, looking-time, and in EEG studies in collaboration with the Woldorff lab), and at-home measures of infants' linguistic and social environment (as in the SEEDLingS project).

More recently the lab is branching out to look at a wider range of human populations and at infants who are blind or deaf/heard of hearing.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	210 Reuben-Cooke Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 660-8753
Email Address:
Web Pages:	https://sites.google.com/site/bergelsonlabduke http://bergelsonlab.com

Office Hours:

By appointment.

Education:

Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania

2013

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Moore, C; Bergelson, E, Wordform variability in infants' language environment and its effects on early word learning., Cognition, vol. 245 (April, 2024), pp. 105694 [doi]  [abs]
2. Laing, C; Bergelson, E, Analyzing the effect of sibling number on input and output in the first 18 months., Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, vol. 29 no. 2 (March, 2024), pp. 175-195, WILEY [doi]  [abs]
3. Campbell, E; Casillas, R; Bergelson, E, The role of vision in the acquisition of words: Vocabulary development in blind toddlers., Developmental science (January, 2024), pp. e13475 [doi]  [abs]
4. Meylan, SC; Foushee, R; Wong, NH; Bergelson, E; Levy, RP, How adults understand what young children say., Nature human behaviour, vol. 7 no. 12 (December, 2023), pp. 2111-2125 [doi]  [abs]
5. Bergelson, E; Soderstrom, M; Schwarz, I-C; Rowland, CF; Ramírez-Esparza, N; R Hamrick, L; Marklund, E; Kalashnikova, M; Guez, A; Casillas, M; Benetti, L; Alphen, PV; Cristia, A, Everyday language input and production in 1,001 children from six continents., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 120 no. 52 (December, 2023), pp. e2300671120 [doi]  [abs]