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Dr. Stephanie L. Archer serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta and directs the Little Magpies Lab for Infant Language Learning, with her office located in Assiniboia Hall.
Her research centers on early speech perception mechanisms and lexical development in infants, examining how speech input shapes perceptual systems and facilitates word learning. Key investigation areas include infant-directed speech patterns, phonological acquisition, sound symbolism effects, and cross-linguistic phonetic processing during language development.
Dr. Archer founded the Little Magpies Lab in 2018, which resumed in-person studies post-pandemic after initial recruitment delays. She actively participates in the ChIRP (Child Interdisciplinary Research Partnership) consortium—a collaborative network spanning Linguistics, Psychology, Education, and Agricultural Sciences—and co-developed SoundsOnline.ca, a dual-mode platform supporting both remote and Edmonton-based child language studies.
