Dr. Tom St Pierre

Assistant Professor
English
Language acquisition, processing and disorders

Publications

2025

Scholarly publications

St. Pierre, T., White, K. S., & Johnson, E. K. (2025). Grammar policing children: Does gender matter? In Variation in language acquisition: Unity in diversity (pp. 142-153). John Benjamins. [DOI]
St. Pierre, T., White, K. S., Johnson, E. K., & Ronfard, S. (2025). The quest for truth: Experimenter identity impacts children's response to surprising information. Open Mind, 9, 1363-1374. [DOI] [Portal]

2024

Scholarly publications

St. Pierre, T., Jaffan, J., Chambers, C. G., & Johnson, E. K. (2024). The icing on the cake. Or is it frosting? The influence of group membership on children's lexical choices. Cognitive Science, 48(2), 1-17. Article e13410. [DOI] [Repository]
White, K. S., St. Pierre, T., & Johnson, E. K. (2024). In support of varying approaches to the study of variation. Language Learning and Development, 20(1), 62-64. [DOI] [Repository]
St. Pierre, T., White, K. S., & Johnson, E. K. (2024). Experimenter identity: An invisible, lurking variable in developmental research. Infant and Child Development, 33(1), Article e2357. [DOI]

2023

Scholarly publications

Fung, P., St. Pierre, T., Raja, M., & Johnson, E. K. (2023). Infants' and toddlers' language development during the pandemic: Socioeconomic status mattered. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 236, Article 105744. [DOI] [Repository]
St. Pierre, T., White, K. S., & Johnson, E. K. (2023). Who is running our experiments? The influence of experimenter identity in the marshmallow task. Cognitive Development, 65, Article 101271. [DOI]

2022

Scholarly publications

St. Pierre, T., Cooper, A., & Johnson, E. K. (2022). Cross-generational phonetic alignment between mothers and their children. Language Learning and Development, 18(4), 393-414. [DOI]
St. Pierre, T., & Koenig, J.-P. (2022). When one speaker's broccoli is another speaker's cauliflower: The real-time processing of multiple speaker vocabularies. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 37(9), 1131-1152. [DOI]

2021

Scholarly publications

St. Pierre, T., & Johnson, E. K. (2021). Looking for wugs in all the right places: Children's use of prepositions in word learning. Cognitive Science, 45(8), Article e13028. [DOI]

2020

Scholarly publications

St. Pierre, T., & Johnson, E. K. (2020). The development of accent-based friendship preferences: Age and language exposure matter. In S. Denison, M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2635-2641). Cognitive Science Society.