@article{vanOmmenBollAvetisyanLarrazaetal.2020,
  author    = {van Ommen, Sandrien and Boll-Avetisyan, Natalie and Larraza, Saioa and Wellmann, Caroline and Bijeljac-Babic, Ranka and H{\"o}hle, Barbara and Nazzi, Thierry},
  title     = {Language-specific prosodic acquisition},
  series = {Journal of memory and language: JML},
  volume    = {112},
  journal   = {Journal of memory and language: JML},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  issn      = {0749-596X},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.jml.2020.104108},
  pages     = {16},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {This study compares the development of prosodic processing in French- and German-learning infants. The emergence of language-specific perception of phrase boundaries was directly tested using the same stimuli across these two languages. French-learning (Experiment 1, 2) and German-learning 6- and 8-month-olds (Experiment 3) listened to the same French noun sequences with or without major prosodic boundaries ([Loulou et Manou] [et Nina]; [Loulou et Manou et Nina], respectively). The boundaries were either naturally cued (Experiment 1), or cued exclusively by pitch and duration (Experiment 2, 3). French-learning 6- and 8-month-olds both perceived the natural boundary, but neither perceived the boundary when only two cues were present. In contrast, German-learning infants develop from not perceiving the two-cue boundary at 6 months to perceiving it at 8 months, just like German-learning 8-month-olds listening to German (Wellmann, Holzgrefe, Truckenbrodt, Wartenburger, \& Hohle, 2012). In a control experiment (Experiment 4), we found little difference between German and French adult listeners, suggesting that later, French listeners catch up with German listeners. Taken together, these cross-linguistic differences in the perception of identical stimuli provide direct evidence for language-specific development of prosodic boundary perception.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchmandtNazziNew2022,
  author    = {Schmandt, Silvana and Nazzi, Thierry and New, Boris},
  title     = {Consonant, vowel and lexical neighbourhood processing during word recognition: new evidence using the sandwich priming technique},
  series = {Language, cognition and neuroscience},
  volume    = {37},
  journal   = {Language, cognition and neuroscience},
  number    = {9},
  publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {Abingdon},
  issn      = {2327-3798},
  doi       = {10.1080/23273798.2022.2046115},
  pages     = {1115 -- 1130},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Studies on French adults using a written lexical decision task with masked priming, in which targets were more primed by consonant- (jalu-JOLI) than vowel-related (vobi-JOLI) primes, support the proposal that consonants have more weight than vowels in lexical processing. This study examines the phonological and/or lexical nature of this consonant bias (C-bias), using a sandwich priming task in which a brief presentation of the target (pre-prime) precedes the prime-target sequence, a manipulation blocking lexical neighbourhood effects. Results from three experiments (varying pre-prime/prime durations) show consistent C-priming and no significant V-priming at earlier and later processing stages (50 or 66 ms primes). Yet, a joint analysis reveals a small V-priming, while confirming a significant consonant advantage. This demonstrates the contribution of the phonological level to the C-bias. Second, differences in performance comparing the classic versus sandwich priming task also establish a contribution of lexical neighbourhood inhibition effects to the C-bias.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{PoltrockChenKwoketal.2018,
  author    = {Poltrock, Silvana and Chen, Hui and Kwok, Celia and Cheung, Hintat and Nazzi, Thierry},
  title     = {Adult learning of novel words in a non-native language},
  series = {Frontiers in psychology},
  volume    = {9},
  journal   = {Frontiers in psychology},
  publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation},
  address   = {Lausanne},
  issn      = {1664-1078},
  doi       = {10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01211},
  pages     = {15},
  year      = {2018},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{NazziPoltrockVonHolzen2016,
  author    = {Nazzi, Thierry and Poltrock, Silvana and Von Holzen, Katie},
  title     = {The developmental origins of the consonant bias in lexical processing},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {416},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-405322},
  pages     = {6},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Consonants have been proposed to carry more of the weight of lexical processing than vowels. This consonant bias has consistently been found in adults and has been proposed to facilitate early language acquisition. We explore the origins of this bias over the course of development and in infants learning different languages. Although the consonant bias was originally thought to be present at birth, evidence suggests that it arises from the early stages of phonological and (pre-)lexical acquisition. We discuss two theories that account for the acquisition of the consonant bias: the lexical and acoustic-phonetic hypotheses.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{NazziPoltrockVonHolzen2016,
  author    = {Nazzi, Thierry and Poltrock, Silvana and Von Holzen, Katie},
  title     = {The Developmental Origins of the Consonant Bias in Lexical Processing},
  series = {Current directions in psychological science},
  volume    = {25},
  journal   = {Current directions in psychological science},
  publisher = {Sage Publ.},
  address   = {Thousand Oaks},
  issn      = {0963-7214},
  doi       = {10.1177/0963721416655786},
  pages     = {291 -- 296},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Consonants have been proposed to carry more of the weight of lexical processing than vowels. This consonant bias has consistently been found in adults and has been proposed to facilitate early language acquisition. We explore the origins of this bias over the course of development and in infants learning different languages. Although the consonant bias was originally thought to be present at birth, evidence suggests that it arises from the early stages of phonological and (pre-)lexical acquisition. We discuss two theories that account for the acquisition of the consonant bias: the lexical and acoustic-phonetic hypotheses.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HoehleBijeljacBabicNazzi2019,
  author    = {H{\"o}hle, Barbara and Bijeljac-Babic, Ranka and Nazzi, Thierry},
  title     = {Variability and stability in early language acquisition},
  series = {Bilingualism : language and cognition},
  volume    = {23},
  journal   = {Bilingualism : language and cognition},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {1366-7289},
  doi       = {10.1017/S1366728919000348},
  pages     = {56 -- 71},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Many human infants grow up learning more than one language simultaneously but only recently has research started to study early language acquisition in this population more systematically. The paper gives an overview on findings on early language acquisition in bilingual infants during the first two years of life and compares these findings to current knowledge on early language acquisition in monolingual infants. Given the state of the research, the overview focuses on research on phonological and early lexical development in the first two years of life. We will show that the developmental trajectory of early language acquisition in these areas is very similar in mono- and bilingual infants suggesting that these early steps into language are guided by mechanisms that are rather robust against the differences in the conditions of language exposure that mono- and bilingual infants typically experience.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{HoehleBijeljacBabicNazzi2019,
  author    = {H{\"o}hle, Barbara and Bijeljac-Babic, Ranka and Nazzi, Thierry},
  title     = {Variability and stability in early language acquisition},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {683},
  issn      = {1866-8364},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-46971},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-469718},
  pages     = {18},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Many human infants grow up learning more than one language simultaneously but only recently has research started to study early language acquisition in this population more systematically. The paper gives an overview on findings on early language acquisition in bilingual infants during the first two years of life and compares these findings to current knowledge on early language acquisition in monolingual infants. Given the state of the research, the overview focuses on research on phonological and early lexical development in the first two years of life. We will show that the developmental trajectory of early language acquisition in these areas is very similar in mono- and bilingual infants suggesting that these early steps into language are guided by mechanisms that are rather robust against the differences in the conditions of language exposure that mono- and bilingual infants typically experience.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HoehleBijeljacBabicHeroldetal.2009,
  author    = {H{\"o}hle, Barbara and Bijeljac-Babic, Ranka and Herold, Birgit and Weissenborn, J{\"u}rgen and Nazzi, Thierry},
  title     = {Language specific prosodic preferences during the first year of life : evidence from German and French infants},
  issn      = {0163-6383},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.infbeh.2009.03.004},
  year      = {2009},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{GonzalezGomezSchmandtFazekasetal.2018,
  author    = {Gonzalez-Gomez, Nayeli and Schmandt, Silvana and Fazekas, Judit and Nazzi, Thierry and Gervain, Judit},
  title     = {Infants' sensitivity to nonadjacent vowel dependencies},
  series = {Journal of experimental child psychology},
  volume    = {178},
  journal   = {Journal of experimental child psychology},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {0022-0965},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.jecp.2018.08.014},
  pages     = {170 -- 183},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Vowel harmony is a linguistic phenomenon whereby vowels within a word share one or several of their phonological features, constituting a nonadjacent, and thus challenging, dependency to learn. It can be found in a large number of agglutinating languages, such as Hungarian and Turkish, and it may apply both at the lexical level (i.e., within word stems) and at the morphological level (i.e., between stems and their affixes). Thus, it might affect both lexical and morphological development in infants whose native language has vowel harmony. The current study asked at what age infants learning an irregular harmonic language, Hungarian, become sensitive to vowel harmony within word stems. In a head-turn preference study, 13-month-old, but not 10-month-old, Hungarian-learning infants preferred listening to nonharmonic VCV (vowel-consonant-vowel) pseudowords over vowel harmonic ones. A control experiment with 13-month-olds exposed to French, a nonharmonic language, showed no listening preference for either of the sequences, suggesting that this finding cannot be explained by a universal preference for nonharmonic sequences but rather reflects language-specific knowledge emerging between 10 and 13 months of age. We discuss the implications of this finding for morphological and lexical learning. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier Inc.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BollAvetisyanBhataraUngeretal.2020,
  author    = {Boll-Avetisyan, Natalie and Bhatara, Anjali and Unger, Annika and Nazzi, Thierry and H{\"o}hle, Barbara},
  title     = {Rhythmic grouping biases in simultaneous bilinguals},
  series = {Bilingualism : language and cognition},
  volume    = {23},
  journal   = {Bilingualism : language and cognition},
  number    = {5},
  publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {1366-7289},
  doi       = {10.1017/S1366728920000140},
  pages     = {1070 -- 1081},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {This study provides a novel approach for testing the universality of perceptual biases by looking at speech processing in simultaneous bilingual adults learning two languages that support the maintenance of this bias to different degrees. Specifically, we investigated the Iambic/Trochaic Law, an assumed universal grouping bias, in simultaneous French-German bilinguals, presenting them with streams of syllables varying in intensity, duration or neither and asking them whether they perceived them as strong-weak or weak-strong groupings. Results showed robust, consistent grouping preferences. A comparison to monolinguals from previous studies revealed that they pattern with German-speaking monolinguals, and differ from French-speaking monolinguals. The distribution of simultaneous bilinguals' individual performance was best explained by a model fitting a unimodal (not bimodal) distribution, failing to support two subgroups of language dominance. Moreover, neither language experience nor language context predicted their performance. These findings suggest a special role for universal biases in simultaneous bilinguals.},
  language  = {en}
}