Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

*indicates student mentee

Rochanavibhata, S., Chuang, Y.-C.*, & Marian, V. (2023). Bilingual mothers and children gesture differently across native and second languages. Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, 5(2), 201-230. https://doi.org/10.1558/jmbs.23492


Rochanavibhata, S., & Marian, V. (2023). Thai and American mothers socialize preschoolers’ emotional development differently. Scientific Reports, 13, 12719. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39947-0


Rochanavibhata, S., & Marian, V. (2023). Culture and gender influence self-construal in mother-preschooler reminiscing. Journal of Cognition and Development, 24(5), 653-677. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2023.2239920


Rochanavibhata, S., Atagi, N., Schonberg, C. C., & Sandhofer, C. M. (2022). The role of syntactic cues in monolingual and bilingual two-year-olds’ novel word learning. Infant Behavior and Development, 68, 101753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101753


Rochanavibhata, S., & Marian, V. (2022). Diversity in bilingual child language acquisition research: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022). First Language, 42(6), 804-808. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237221100138


Rochanavibhata, S., & Marian, V. (2022). Culture at play: A cross-cultural comparison of mother-child communication during toy play. Language Learning and Development, 18(3), 294-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2021.1954929


Rochanavibhata, S., & Marian, V. (2021). Cross-cultural differences in mother-preschooler book sharing practices in the United States and Thailand. Journal of Child Language, 48(4), 834-957. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000920000562


Rochanavibhata, S., & Marian, V. (2020). Maternal scaffolding styles and children’s developing narrative skills: A cross-cultural comparison of autobiographical conversations in the US and Thailand. Learning, Culture, and Social Interaction, 26, 100413.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2020.100413


Bartolotti, J., Schroeder, S. R., Hayakawa, S., Rochanavibhata, S., Chen, P., & Marian, V. (2020). Listening to speech and non-speech sounds activates lexical and semantic knowledge differently. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(8), 1135-1149. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820923944


Marian, V., Bartolotti, J., Rochanavibhata, S., Bradley, K., & Hernandez, A. E. (2017). Bilingual cortical control of between- and within-language competition. Scientific Reports, 7, 11763. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12116-w

Op-Eds

Rochanavibhata, S., & Marian, V. (2023). Expressions and gestures can be ‘worth a thousand words’. Psychology Today, April 4, 2023. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/language-and-mind/202304/expressions-and-gestures-can-be-worth-a-thousand-words

Marian, V., & Rochanavibhata, S. (2019). How to raise a bilingual child: Seven strategies for success. Psychology Today, March 15, 2019. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/language-and-mind/201903/how-raise-bilingual-child-seven-strategies-success

Invited Talks

Rochanavibhata, S. (2024, February). Bilingual language development: A cross-linguistic comparison of communication in Thai-English bilingual mothers and children. Talk to be presented at Research Sharing Session, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (hybrid meeting).


Marian, V., & Rochanavibhata, S. (2023, December). Culture at play: A cross-cultural and cross-linguistic comparison of parent-child communication. Talk presented at the NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Festival (virtual event).


Rochanavibhata, S. (2023, September). The influence of cultural background and early linguistic experience on language development. Talk presented at the Boston University Developmental Science Emerging Scholars Symposium on Culture, Ethnicity, and Structural Racism: Influences on Child Development, Boston, Massachusetts.


Rochanavibhata, S. (2023, April). The influence of cultural background and early linguistic experience on language development. Talk presented at the iBrain Erasmus International Symposium on Heritage Bilingualism (hybrid meeting).


Rochanavibhata, S., & Marian, V. (2019, March). Influence of maternal scaffolding on children’s developing narrative skills: A cross-cultural comparison. Talk presented at the Northwestern University Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences Data Blitz, Evanston, Illinois.