@article{BhataraBollAvetisyanAgusetal.2016, author = {Bhatara, Anjali and Boll-Avetisyan, Natalie and Agus, Trevor and H{\"o}hle, Barbara and Nazzi, Thierry}, title = {Language Experience Affects Grouping of Musical Instrument Sounds}, series = {Cognitive science : a multidisciplinary journal of anthropology, artificial intelligence, education, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology ; journal of the Cognitive Science Society}, volume = {40}, journal = {Cognitive science : a multidisciplinary journal of anthropology, artificial intelligence, education, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology ; journal of the Cognitive Science Society}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {0364-0213}, doi = {10.1111/cogs.12300}, pages = {1816 -- 1830}, year = {2016}, 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{Gerstenberg2019, author = {Gerstenberg, Annette}, title = {Generational styles in oral storytelling}, series = {Narrative inquiry}, volume = {29}, journal = {Narrative inquiry}, number = {1}, publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Co.}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {1387-6740}, doi = {10.1075/ni.18042.ger}, pages = {1 -- 28}, year = {2019}, abstract = {When it comes to autobiographical narratives, the most spontaneous and natural manner is preferable. But neither individually told narratives nor those grounded in the communicative repertoire of a social group are easily comparable. A clearly identifiable tertium comparationis is mandatory. We present the results of an experimental 'Narrative Priming' setting with French students. A potentially underlying model of narrating from personal experience was activated via a narrative prime, and in a second step, the participants were asked to tell a narrative of their own. The analysis focuses on similarities and differences between the primes and the students' narratives. The results give evidence for the possibility to elicit a set of comparable narratives via a prime, and to activate an underlying narrative template. Meaningful differences are discussed as generational and age related styles. The transcriptions from the participants that authorized the publication are available online.}, language = {en} }