Jill Hoover

Jill Hoover

Associate Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Graduate Program Director, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Phonological acquisition and disorders; grammatical acquisition and specific language Impairment; language assessment and intervention in children; spoken word recognition

Location

Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Building

358 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003
United States

Room #318

Jill Hoover’s research examines the interface between phonological, lexical, and grammatical acquisition in typical development and clinical populations, including phonological disorders and specific language impairment (SLI). She is particularly interested in how understanding this interface can inform diagnosis and treatment for preschool children with language impairments.

Research Lab Website: 

Sounds2Syntax Lab

Education

  • PhD, University of Kansas, 2009
  • MA, Northern Illinois University, 2003
  • BS, University of Minnesota, 2001

Key Publications

Hoover, J.R. (2019). Phonological treatment options for children with expressive language disorders, Seminars in Speech and Language, 40, 138-148.

Hoover, J.R. (2018). Neighborhood density and syntactic class in SLI and typical development: Evidence from a forward gating task. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 61, 1226-1237.  

Hoover, J.R. & Storkel, H.L. (2013). Grammatical treatment and specific language impairment: Neighborhood density and third person singular -s. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 27, 661-680.

Hoover, J.R., Storkel, H.L. & Rice, M.L. (2012). The interface between neighborhood density & optional infinitives: Normal development and Specific Language Impairment. Journal of Child Language, 39, 835-862.

Hoover, J.R., Storkel, H.L. & Hogan, T.P. (2010). A cross-sectional comparison of the effects of phonotactic probability and neighborhood density on word learning by preschool children. Journal of Memory and Language, 63, 100 – 116. PMC2885809