Book Chapters

Eye movements when reading spaced and unspaced Thai and English: a comparison of Thai- English bilinguals and English monolinguals (with R Radach and S Luksaneeyanawin), Human communication science: a compendium (2011)
 

Child language acquisition in Malaysia: a psycholinguistic perspective (with Khazriyati Salehuddin), Child development: theories, issues and challenges (2008)
 

Interaction between language and cognition in language development, Mental states vol. 2: Language and cognitive structure (2007)
 

Unfolding language acquisition in Thai children, Unfolding linguistics in honour of Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin (2007)
 

Evaluating an academic literacy program through the assessment of student essays, Academic skills advising: evaluating for program improvement and accountability (2002)
 

Journal articles

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Malay numeral classifier usage in caretaker-child talk (with Khazriyati Salehuddin), GEMA Journal of Language Studies (2012)

To the nativists and cognitivists, input plays a minor role in language acquisition; however, more...

 

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Object categorisation using Malay shape-based numeral classifiers (with Khazriyati Salehuddin), Journal of Language Studies (2011)

Categorisation is fundamental in human cognition and language development. Crosslinguisticstudies on categorisation propose numeral classifiers...

 

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Orthographic and phonological parafoveal processing of consonants, vowels, and tones when reading Thai, Applied Psycholinguistics (2011)

Four eye movement experiments investigated whether readers use parafoveal input to gain information about the...

 

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The pragmatic functions of numeral classifiers in modern Malay written corpus (with Khazriyati Salehuddin and Marlyna Maros), GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies (2011)

Numeral classifiers are primarily used to provide semantic information about the physical and functional properties...

 

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A comparison of caretaker-child conversations about past personal experiences in Thailand and Australia, Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology (2010)

This study investigated the conversations between caretakers and children about past personal experiences in Anglo-Australian...

 

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Perceiving dance: schematic expectations guide experts’ scanning of a contemporary dance film (with C Stevens, H Howell, C Vidal, M Latimer, and J Milne-Home), Journal of Dance Medicine & Science (2010)
 

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Reading and spelling acquisition in Thai children (with K Iemwanthong), Reading and Writing: an Interdisciplinary Journal (2010)

Thai, a tonal language, has its own distinctive alphabetic orthography.The study investigates reading and spelling...

 

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Spelling development in Thai children, Journal of Cognitive Science (2010)

Thai, a tonal language, has a distinctive alphabetic orthography. In the current study, spelling development...

 

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An investigation into Malay numeral classifier acquisition through an elicited production task (with Khazriyati Salehuddin), First Language (2009)

The act of categorization and labeling is fundamental in human cognition and language development. By...

 

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Eye movements when reading spaced and unspaced Thai and English: a comparison of Thai-English bilinguals and English monolinguals (with R Radach and S Luksaneeyanawinc), Journal of Memory and Language (2009)

The study investigated the eye movements of Thai–English bilinguals when reading both Thai and English...

 

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Obligatory grammatical categories and the expression of temporal events (with S Luksaneeyanawin), Journal of Child Language (2009)

Thai has imperfective aspectual morphemes that are not obligatory inusage, whereas English has obligatory grammaticized...

 

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Reading in Thai: the case of misaligned vowels, Reading and Writing: an Interdisciplinary Journal (2009)

Thai has its own distinctive alphabetic script with syllabic characteristics as it has implicit vowels...

 

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Learning to read Setswana and English: Cross-language transference of letter knowledge, phonological awareness and reading skills (with O Lekgoko), Perspectives in Education (2008)

The current study investigates how beginner readers learn to read Setswana and English,and whether there...

 

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Towards effective partnerships in a collaborative problem-solving task (with M Schmitz), British Journal of Educational Psychology (2008)
 

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Phonological awareness, letter knowledge and literacy development in Indonesian beginner readers and spellers (with V Widjaja), Applied Psycholinguistics (2007)

The aim of the present study was to investigate the grain size predominantly used by...

 

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The expression of temporal relations in Thai children's narratives, First Language (2007)

The acquisition of temporal relations in the narratives of Thai children (aged4 years, 6 years...

 

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Language socialisation of the child through caretaker-child personal narratives: a comparison of Thai and English (with S Luksaneeyanawin and P Yangklang), RELC Journal (2006)

The present study reports preliminary findings on the elicitation strategiesused by Thai and English caretakers...

 

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The effects of an early history of otitis media on children’s language and literacy skill development, British Journal of Educational Psychology (2006)

Background. Otitis media (OM) or middle ear infection is a common childhoodillness and is most...

 

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The acquisition of temporal reference cross-linguistically using two acting-out comprehension tasks, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research (2004)

The acquisition of temporal event referencing, encoded by the temporal connectives: then, before,after, when, while,...

 

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The acquisition of temporal event sequencing: a cross-linguistic study using an elicited imitation task, First Language (2003)

Forty children aged between 3;6 and 7;6 years from each of threelanguages, English, Thai and...

 

Conference publications

Eye movements and reading and what it can reveal about consonant and vowel processing, International Conference on Recent Advances in Cognitive Science (2010)
 

Eye tracking technology: its scope and limitations in reading, Global Summit, The National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) (2010)
 

Object categorisation into Malay shape-based numeral classifiers (with Khazriyati Salehuddin), ASEAN RegionalUunion of Psychological Societies 3rd congress (2010)
 

Socialization and enculturation of the child through caretaker-child interactions, ASEAN Regional Union of Psychological Societies 3rd Congress 2010 (2010)
 

An investigation into Malay numeral classifier acquisition through a matching comprehension task (with Khazriyati Salehuddin), Australian Human Development Association Biennial Conference (2009)
 

Direct and indirect methods for measuring audience reactions to contemporary dance (with C Stevens, C Howell, L Vidal, J Milne-Home, and C Latimer), World Dance Alliance Global Summit (2009)

Contemporary dance – an artform where the major medium is movement,deliberately and systematically cultivated for...

 

Linguistic relativity: from chasing frogs to eating spaghetti, Australasian Society for Cognitive Science ASCS09 (2009)
 

The categorisation of objects into numeral classifier categories: a discrimination task using Malay (with Khazriyati Salehuddin), Australasian Society for Cognitive Science ASCS09 (2009)

Categorisation is an essential process in human cognition and language development. It has been proposed...

 

A comparison of the expression of simultaneity in Thai and English adults and children using short animations (with S Luksaneeyanawin), 16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society(SEALXVI) (2008)
 

Malay numeral classifiers: sketching conceptual representation from a native speaker's perspective (with Khazriyati Salehuddin), 16th Annual Meeting of theSouth East Asian Linguistics Society XVI (SEALS XVI) (2008)
 

The pragmatics of Malay numeral classifiers: an investigation of modern Malay corpus (with Khazriyati Salehuddin), 18th Annual Meeting of the South East Asian Linguistics Society XVIII(Seals XVIII) (2008)

Anaphora and definiteness are most commonly expressed in Malay via the use of pronouns (e.g....

 

Grammatical and obligatory categories and the expression of temporal events (with S Luksaneeyanawin), 15th Australian Human Development Association Conference (2007)
 

Methods for measuring audience reactions (with C Stevens, R Glass, E Shubert, and J Chen), Proceedings of the Inaugural International Conference on Music Communication Science (2007)

This paper describes recent developments in ourinvestigations into psychological reactions of audiencemembers as they watch...

 

Misaligned vowels – is there a processing cost? (with S Luksaneeyanawin, K Iemwanthong, and S Sri-Jun), 34th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (2007)

In Thai vowels can be written non-linearly above, below or to either side of the...

 

Phonological awareness and letter knowledge as predictors of literacy development in Indonesian children (with V Widjaja), 15th Australian Human Development Association Conference (2007)
 

Reading and spelling development in Thai children: some preliminary findings (with K Iemwanthong), 15th Australian Human Development Association Conference (2007)
 

The acquisition of Malay numeral classifiers (with Khazriyati Salehuddin), 15th Australian Human Development Association Conference (2007)
 

The dancing brain: the effect of expertise on visual attention while viewing Australian contemporary dance (with C Stevens, S Healey, C Howell, L Vidal, C Latimer, and J Milne-Home), Proceedings of the 17th annual meeting of the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science (2007)

This paper reports an experimental psychology investigation of the effect of observer expertise on eye...

 

Three techniques for measuring audience reactions (with C Stevens, S McKechnie, R Glass, E Schubert, J Chen, S Healey, and M Gordon), AHRC ICT Methods Network Workshop, DeMontfort University (2007)
 

Culture and everyday explanations of behavior (with L G. Miramontes, M S. Katigbak, J Vargas-Flores, J Ibáñez-Reyes, F A. White, F A. Ortiz, and A M. Del Prado), American Psychological Association 114th Annual Convention (2006)
 

Reading with and without spaces in Thai and English (with C Schoknecht, S Luksaneeyanawin, and P Sudasna Na Ayudhya), The 33rd Australian Experimental Psychology Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 21-23 April, 2006 (2006)
 

The expression of temporal relations by Thai and English children and adults, 16th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society(SEALXVI) (2006)

In relation to thinking-for-speaking, research has focused on the spatial domain, in particular Satellite- and...

 

Interaction between language and cognition, South East Asian Linguistics Society XV(SEALS XV) (2005)
 

Phonological awareness, letter knowledge and literacy development in Indonesian beginner readers and spellers (with V Widjaja), 32nd Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (2005)
 

Phonological awareness and word reading in a transparent orthography: preliminary findings on Indonesian, Proceedings of the 10th Australian International Conference on Speech and Technologies (2004)
 

Application of schema theory to academic discourse, Proceedings of the National Language and Academic Skills Conference (2000)
 

Development of coherence in novice, tertiary student essays, Proceedings of the National Language and Academic Skills Conference, 1999 (1999)
 

Reports, presentations, workshops

An introduction to eye tracking technology and its applications, Colloquium for Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (2010)
 

Reading and spelling in Thai children, Workshop on Reading Difficulties in Children Learning Asian Languages: 6th International Conference of Cognitive Science (ICCS ‘08) (2008)
 

Eye movements and reading research across different orthographies, School of Psychology Colloquium, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, July 2007 (2007)
 

Reading research on Indonesian and Thai, School of Psychology Colloquium, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, July 2007 (2007)
 

Factors involved in second language learning, Colloquium, English Language and Education Departments Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University (2005)
 

Interaction between language and cognition in language development, Colloquium, School of Linguistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2005)