Megha Sundara, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Sundara, M., Polka, L. & Baum, S. (in press). Production of coronal stops by adult simultaneous bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

Sundara, M. (in press). Acoustic-phonetics of coronal stops: A cross-language study of Canadian-English & Canadian-French. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Sundara, M., Polka, L., & Genesee, F. (in press). Language-experience facilitates discrimination of /d- ©£/ in monolingual and bilingual acquisition of English. Cognition.

Sundara, M., Namasivayam, A. K. & Chen, R. (2001) Observation-execution matching system for speech: A magnetic stimulation study. NeuroReport, 12, 1341-1344.

Polka, L., Colantonio, C. & Sundara, M. (2001) Cross-language perception of /d - d/: Evidence for a new developmental pattern. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, 2190-2200.

Refereed Proceedings

Sundara, M. (2003). Can adult phonetic categories be predicted from statistical distribution alone? In Sole, M. J., Recasens, D., Romero, J. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2329-2332.

Polka, L. & Sundara, M. (2003). Word segmentation in monolingual and bilingual infant learners of English and French. In Sole, M. J., Recasens, D., Romero, J. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1021-1024.

Aravind, N., Saoji, A. & Sundara, M. (1998). Frequency specificity of the medial efferent system. In Pardasani, K. R. (Ed.) Advances in Biomechanics: Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference, MACT Press, Bhopal.

Manuscripts submitted

Sundara, M. & Polka, L. Discrimination of coronal stops by simultaneous bilingual adults: Effects of age of acquisition and dual language exposure.

Selected Conference Presentations

Nazzi, T., Iakimova, G., Fredonie, S., Sundara, M., & Polka, L. (2005). Evaluating early speech segmentation in French: effects of rhythmic types and speech mode. Technical presentation at the X International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin.

Sundara, M. & Polka, L. (2005). Phonetic categories of simultaneous bilingual adults: insights from production and perception data. Part of colloquium on "Phonology of simultaneous bilinguals" at the 5th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Barcelona.

Sundara, M., Klein, D. & Chen, J,-K. (2004). Neural correlates of phonetic and pitch categorization: preliminary fMRI data. Poster at Research Day of Center for Research on Language, Mind and Brain, Montreal.

Sundara, M. & Polka, L. (2004). Speech perception and production in bilinguals and monolinguals: convergent and divergent patterns in adulthood and development. 147th Meeting of Acoustic Society of America, New York.

Sundara, M., Polka, L. & Molnar, M. (2004). Detail in phonetic representation in infancy: effects of monolingual and dual language exposure. Technical presentation at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston.

Sundara, M., Polka, L. & Molnar, M. (2004). Detail in phonetic representation of 6-8 and 10-12 month-old French- and English-learning infants. Poster at International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago.

Sundara, M. & Polka, L. (2003). A statistical distribution-based approach to predicting bilingual phonetic categories. Poster at Research Day of Center for Research on Language, Mind and Brain, Montreal.

Sundara, M. & Polka, L. (2003). Bilingual segmentation skills in preverbal infants. Part of colloquium on ”°Studies of Pre-verbal dual language learners" at 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Tempe, AZ.

Ilari, B., Polka, L., & Sundara, M. (2003). Preferences for a cappella and accompanied songs: a study with infant listeners. Technical presentation at the Meeting of European Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Hanover.

Sundara, M. (2003). Bilingual first language acquisition: Organization of phonetic perception and production. Technical presentation at the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Tempe, AZ.