TY  - GEN
A1  - Abboub, Nawal
A1  - Boll-Avetisyan, Natalie
A1  - Bhatara, Anjali
A1  - Höhle, Barbara
A1  - Nazzi, Thierry
T1  - An exploration of rhythmic grouping of speech sequences by french- and german-learning infants
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Rhythm in music and speech can be characterized by a constellation of several acoustic cues. Individually, these cues have different effects on rhythmic perception: sequences of sounds alternating in duration are perceived as short-long pairs (weak-strong/iambicpattern), whereas sequences of sounds alternating in intensity or pitch are perceived as loud-soft, or high-low pairs (strong-weak/trochaic pattern). This perceptual bias-called the lambic-Trochaic Law (ITL) has been claimed to be an universal property of the auditory system applying in both the music and the language domains. Recent studies have shown that language experience can modulate the effects of the ITL on rhythmic perception of both speech and non-speech sequences in adults, and of non-speech sequences in 7.5-month-old infants. The goal of the present study was to explore whether language experience also modulates infants' grouping of speech. To do so, we presented sequences of syllables to monolingual French- and German-learning 7.5-month-olds. Using the Headturn Preference Procedure (HPP), we examined whether they were able to perceive a rhythmic structure in sequences of syllables that alternated in duration, pitch, or intensity. Our findings show that both French- and German-learning infants perceived a rhythmic structure when it was cued by duration or pitch but not intensity. Our findings also show differences in how these infants use duration and pitch cues to group syllable sequences, suggesting that pitch cues were the easier ones to use. Moreover, performance did not differ across languages, failing to reveal early language effects on rhythmic perception. These results contribute to our understanding of the origin of rhythmic perception and perceptual mechanisms shared across music and speech, which may bootstrap language acquisition.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 427 
KW  - language acquisition
KW  - prosody
KW  - grouping
KW  - iambic-trochaic law
KW  - perceptual biases
KW  - french-learning infants
KW  - german-learning infants
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-407201
IS  - 427
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bhatara, Anjali
A1  - Boll-Avetisyan, Natalie
A1  - Agus, Trevor
A1  - Höhle, Barbara
A1  - Nazzi, Thierry
T1  - Language Experience Affects Grouping of Musical Instrument Sounds
JF  - Cognitive science : a multidisciplinary journal of anthropology, artificial intelligence, education, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology ; journal of the Cognitive Science Society
KW  - Cross-linguistic
KW  - French
KW  - German
KW  - Auditory perception
KW  - Music
KW  - Rhythmic grouping
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12300
SN  - 0364-0213
SN  - 1551-6709
VL  - 40
SP  - 1816
EP  - 1830
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Boll-Avetisyan, Natalie
A1  - Bhatara, Anjali
A1  - Unger, Annika
A1  - Nazzi, Thierry
A1  - Höhle, Barbara
T1  - Effects of experience with L2 and music on rhythmic grouping by French listeners
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Rhythm perception is assumed to be guided by a domain-general auditory principle, the Iambic/Trochaic Law, stating that sounds varying in intensity are grouped as strong-weak, and sounds varying in duration are grouped as weak-strong. Recently, Bhatara et al. (2013) showed that rhythmic grouping is influenced by native language experience, French listeners having weaker grouping preferences than German listeners. This study explores whether L2 knowledge and musical experience also affect rhythmic grouping. In a grouping task, French late learners of German listened to sequences of coarticulated syllables varying in either intensity or duration. Data on their language and musical experience were obtained by a questionnaire. Mixed-effect model comparisons showed influences of musical experience as well as L2 input quality and quantity on grouping preferences. These results imply that adult French listeners' sensitivity to rhythm can be enhanced through L2 and musical experience.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 450 
KW  - rhythmic grouping
KW  - second language acquisition
KW  - prosody
KW  - musicality
KW  - Iambic
KW  - Trochaic Law
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413786
IS  - 450
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Boll-Avetisyan, Natalie
A1  - Bhatara, Anjali
A1  - Unger, Annika
A1  - Nazzi, Thierry
A1  - Höhle, Barbara
T1  - Effects of experience with L2 and music on rhythmic grouping by French listeners
JF  - Bilingualism : language and cognition.
KW  - rhythmic grouping
KW  - second language acquisition
KW  - prosody
KW  - musicality
KW  - Iambic
KW  - Trochaic Law
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728915000425
SN  - 1366-7289
SN  - 1469-1841
VL  - 19
SP  - 971
EP  - 986
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  -