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Tamar Keren-Portnoy
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Profile
Biography
My primary focus has been on understanding how current skills promote further learning, especially how babble affects the way infants and toddlers listen to language, perceive and remember new words, and begin to build their lexicons. I am also more generally interested in understanding how phonological knowledge is constructed in its very early stages and how it is influenced by parents' speech to infants. Recently I have started to work on speech and language interventions for infants who are at risk of language delay, such as infants with Down syndrome.
I am also interested in understanding the psycholinguistics of the Semitic morphology of root in patterns in speakers of Semitic languages (like Hebrew and Arabic).
In all my research I take an empiricist, usage-based perspective.
I use naturalistic observation data as well as experimental methods with both infants and toddlers.
Career
| 2021 - | Professor | University of York |
| 2014 - 2021 | Senior Lecturer | University of York |
| 2010 - 2014 | Lecturer | University of York |
| 2006 - 2010 | Research Fellow | University of York |
| 2003 - 2006 | Research Officer, School of Psychology | University of Wales |
| 2002 | PhD in Psychology | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 1997 | MA in Psychology | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 1992 | BA in Psychology and General studies | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Departmental roles
- Admissions tutor
- Running 'Adjusting to academic culture' sessions
Contact details
https://www.york.ac.uk/language/research/projects/babylab/