Debora S. Herold, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Debora Herold received a Ph.D. from Emory University in 2006. Her primary area of research is cognitive development, specifically language acquisition and development. The majority of Herold’s research focuses on the acquisition and development of language in children ages 2 to 6.

Herold’s dissertation explored the role of prosodic cues in language acquisition, focusing on whether children can use tone of voice to figure out the meaning of new words. Here at IUPUI, Herold is interested in shifting the focus of some of her research to explore ways to incorporate active learning in the classroom, particularly in gateway courses.

Her most recent papers include:
Herold, D. S. (2006). Acoustic correlates to meaning in infant-directed speech. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Emory University, Atlanta.

Herold, D. S., Nygaard, L. C., & Namy, L. L. (2006). The semantics of prosody: Listeners’ use of prosodic correlates to word meaning. Manuscript in preparation.