RESEARCH  INTERESTS
Child Language Learning
Bilingualism
Language Disorders
Cognitive and Language Processing in Children

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Kan, P. & Kohnert, K. (2008).  Fast mapping by developing bilinguals in L1 and L2. Journal of Child Language, 35, 495-514.

Kan, P.F. & Kohnert, K. (2005). Preschoolers learning Hmong and English: Lexical-semantic skills in L1 and L2. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 48, 372-383.

Wing, C., Kohnert, K., Pham, G., Kan, P.F., Danahy, K., Cordero, K.N., & Blaiser, K. (in press). Culturally consistent treatment for late talkers. Journal of Communication Disorders.

Windsor, J., Kohnert, K., Rowe, A., & Kan, P. (2008). Performance on nonlinguistic visual tasks by children with language impairment. Applied Psycholinguistics, 29, 237–268.

Kohnert, K., Kan, P., & Conboy, B. (2007). Links between words and grammar in sequential bilingual preschoolers. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Kohnert, K. & Kan, P. F. (2007). Lexical skills in young children learning a second language: Methods, results, and clinical applications. In J. Centeno, L., L. Obler, & R. Anderson (Eds), Communication Disorders in Spanish-speakers: Theoretical, Research, & Clinical Aspects, (pp. 156 – 168). Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters.

Kohnert, K., Yim, D., Nett, K., Kan, P., & Duran, L. (2005). Intervention with linguistically diverse preschool children: A focus on developing home language(s), Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 36, 251-263.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Kan, P. & Kohnert, K. (2008). Novel word learning by sequential bilingual children. Presentation at Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

Blaiser, K, & Kan, P. (2008). Word learning in children with hearing loss: The role of systematic input. Poster presentation at Newborn Hearing Screening Conference, Como Lake, Italy.

Kan, P. F., Kohnert, K., & Nelson, P. (2006, November). The effect of noise on word learning skills in sequential bilingual children. Paper presented at 4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI.
 
Kan, P. F. & Kohnert, K. (2006, June). Language sample analysis with SALT in Hmong and English. Poster session presented at Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.

Kan, P. F., Kohnert, K., Nett-Cordero, K., Yim, D. (2005, November). Non-word repetition (NWR) in bilingual Hmong-English speakers. Paper presented at ASHA Convention, San Diego, CA.

Kan, P.F., & Kohnert, K. (2004, November). Corpora data in understudied languages: The Hmong project. Paper presented at annual conference of the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association, Philadelphia.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Kan, P. (2008). An Investigation of Language Skills in Hmong-English Bilingual Children. Paper presented at the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota.

Kan, P. F. (2004, November). A case study: The language skills in a Mandarin-English bilingual child with brain injury. Language/Literacy Assessment and Development in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations: African American, Asian, Native American, and Hispanic Children. Paper presented at ASHA Pre-convention 2004, Philadelphia, PA.