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Linda Polka is a Professor and Graduate Program Director at the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders (UU直播). She is also a fellow of the and former Chair of their Speech Communication division. Dr. Polka鈥檚 research program examines speech perception development during infancy and how it is shaped by language experience. She has contributed foundational knowledge on how infants perceive phonetic segments and how they process fluent speech in multilingual environments. Dr. Polka鈥檚 laboratory, in collaboration with Dr. Byers-Heinlein, established the Montr茅al Bilingual Infant corpus, the first audio archive of the language environment of bilingual infants in their everyday lives in Canada.