Naja Ferjan Ramírez

Adjunct Assistant Professor

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Ferjan Ramírez, N., Marjanovič Umek, L., & Fekonja, U. (2024). Language environment and early language production in Slovenian infants: An exploratory study using daylong recordings. Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, 10.1111/infa.12615. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12615

Hippe, L., Hennessy, V., Ferjan Ramírez, N., & Zhao, T. C. (2024). Comparison of speech and music input in North American infants’ home environment over the first two years of life. Developmental Science, 27(5), e13528. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13528

Sheth, K., & Ferjan Ramírez, N. (2024). A longitudinal corpus analysis of the quantity, syntactic, and lexical aspects of maternal and paternal parentese. Language Learning and Development, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2024.2346099

Ferjan Ramírez, N., & Hippe, D. (2024). Estimating infants’ language exposure: A comparison of random and volume sampling from daylong recordings collected in a bilingual community. Infant Behavior & Development, 75, 101943. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101943

Ferjan Ramírez, N. (2024). What do parents really think? Knowledge, beliefs, and self-awareness of parentese in relation to its use in daylong recordings. First Language, 44(1), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237231216010

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Hippe, D., Braverman, A., Weiss, Y., & Kuhl, P. K. (2023). A comparison of automatic and manual measures of turn-taking in monolingual and bilingual contexts. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 1936-1952. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02127-z

Huber, E., Ferjan Ramírez, N., Corrigan, N., & Kuhl, P. K. (2023). Enriched parent-child interaction advances early childhood language development. Developmental Science, 26(6), e13391. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13391

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Weiss, Y., Sheth, K., & Kuhl, P. K. (2024). Parentese in infancy predicts 5-year language complexity and conversational turns. Journal of Child Language, 51(2), 359-384. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000923000077

Huber, E., Corrigan, N. M., Yarnykh, V. L., Ferjan Ramírez, N., & Kuhl, P. K. (2023). Language experience during infancy predicts white matter myelination at age two years. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(9), 1590–1599. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1043-22.2023

Weiss, Y., Huber, E., Ferjan Ramírez, N., Corrigan, N. M., Yarnykh, V. L., & Kuhl, P. K. (2022). Language input in late infancy scaffolds emergent literacy skills and predicts reading related white matter development. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, 922552. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.922552

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Hippe, D., & Lindekugel, K. (2022). Electronic media and social features of language input in bilingually-raised Latinx infants. Infant Behavior & Development, 68, 101740. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101740

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Hippe, D. S., Correa, L., Andert, J., & Baralt, M. (2022). Habla conmigo, daddy! Fathers’ language input in North American bilingual Latinx families. Infancy, 27, 301-323. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12450

Ferjan Ramírez, N. (2022). Fathers' infant-directed speech and its effects on child language development. Language & Linguistics Compass, e12448. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12448

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Sheth, K. K., & Kuhl, P. K. (2021). The effects of age, dosage, and poverty on second language learning through SparkLingTM in infant education centers in Madrid, Spain. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(23), 12758. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312758

Shapiro, N. T., Hippe, D., & Ferjan Ramírez, N. (2021). How chatty are daddies? An exploratory study of infants’ language environments. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(8), 3242–3252. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00727

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Hippe, D., & Shapiro, N. T. (2021). Exposure to electronic media between 6 and 24 months of age: An exploratory study. Infant Behavior & Development, 63, 101549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101549

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Hippe, D., & Kuhl, P. K. (2021). Comparing automatic and manual measures of parent-infant conversational turns: A word of caution. Child Development, 92(2), 672–681. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13495

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Lytle, S., & Kuhl, P. K. 2020. Parent Coaching Increases Conversational Turns and Advances Infant Language Development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921653117

Ferjan Ramírez, N., & Kuhl, P. K. (2020). Early Second Language Through SparkLingTM: Scaling-Up a Language Intervention in Infant Education Centers. Mind, Brain, and Education. https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.12232

Ferjan Ramirez, N. & Kuhl, P.K. (2020) Second Language Learning in Early Childhood: Creating a Language Intervention for Infant Education Centers in Madrid. Proceedings of the 44th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston: Cascadilla Press.

Kuhl, P. K., & Ferjan Ramírez, N. (2019). Neuroscience and education: How early brain development affects school. In P. K. Khul, S-S. Lim, S. Guerriero & D. Van Damme (Eds.), Learning in the Digital Age: Towards a Science of Learning for 21st Century Education (pp. 25-36). Paris, France: Education Research and Innovation, OECD Publishing.

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Lytle, S., Fish, M., Kuhl, P. K. (2018). Parent coaching at 6 and 10 months improves language outcomes at 14 months: A randomized controlled trial. Developmental Science, e12762. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12762

Ferjan Ramírez, N., & Kuhl, P. K. (2017). Bilingual Baby: Foreign Language Intervention in Madrid's Infant Education Centers. Mind, Brain, and Education, 11(3), 133-43.

Ferjan Ramírez, N., & Kuhl, P. K. (2017). The brain science of bilingualism. Young Children, 72, 38-44.

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Ramírez, R.R., Clarke, M., Taulu, S., & Kuhl, P. K. (2016). Speech discrimination in 11-month-old bilingual and monolingual infants: A magnetoencephalography study. Developmental Science, e12427. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12427

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Kuhl, P. K. (2016). Bilingual Language Learning in Children. Summary presented at the White House Regional Summit on Dual Language Learners. Miami, FL, June 2, 2016.

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Leonard, M. K., Davenport, T., Torres, C., Mayberry, R. I., & Halgren, E. (2014). Neural language processing in adolescent first-language learners: Longitudinal case studies in American Sign Language. Cerebral Cortex. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25410427

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Lieberman, A., Mayberry, R. I. (2013). The initial stages of first-language acquisition begun in adolescence: When late looks early. Journal of Child Language, 40(2), 391-414.

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Leonard, M. K., Halgren, E., Mayberry, R. I. The neural correlates of childhood linguistic isolation. (2013). In S. Baiz, N. Goldman, & R. Hawkes (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Leonard, M. K., Torres, C., Hatrak, M., Halgren, E., Mayberry, R. I. (2013). Neural language processing in adolescent first-language learners. Cerebral Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bht137

Leonard, M. K., Ferjan Ramírez, N., Torres, C., Hatrak, M., Mayberry, R. I., & Halgren, E. (2013). Neural stages of spoken, written, and signed word processing in second language learners. Frontiers of Human Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00322

Leonard, M. K., Ferjan Ramírez, N., Torres, C., Travis, K., Hatrak, M., Mayberry, R. I., & Halgren, E. (2012). Signed Words in the Congenitally Deaf Evoke Typical Late Lexicosemantic Responses with No Early Visual Responses in Left Superior Temporal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(28), 9700-9705.

Ferjan Ramírez, N., Lieberman, A., & Mayberry, R. I. (2011). The first words acquired by adolescent first-language learners: When late looks early. In N. Dannis, K. Mesh, & H. Sung (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston: Cascadilla Press.