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About the Authors
Linda Polka
linda.polka@mcgill.ca
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
McGill University
2001 McGill College Avenue Montréal, Quebec H3A 1G1, Canada
Linda Polka is professor and graduate program director in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University (Montréal, QC, Canada) and director of the McGill Infant Speech Perception Lab. She is also a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and was recently (2019) chair of the Technical Committee for Speech Communica- tion. Her work explores how infant speech perception is shaped by universal biases and language experience in both monolingual and bilingual infants.
Yufang Ruan
yufang.ruan@mail.mcgill.ca
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music
Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
McGill University
2001 McGill College Avenue, Room 845 Montréal, Quebec H3A 1G1, Canada
Yufang Ruan is a doctoral student in the Infant Speech Perception Lab, McGill University (Montréal, QC, Canada). Her research interests concern language development and developmental disorders. She received her MSc from Beijing Normal University (China) and her BA from Dalian University of Technology (China).
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