TY - JOUR A1 - Gerstenberg, Annette T1 - Generational styles in oral storytelling BT - What can be learned from narrative priming? JF - Narrative inquiry N2 - 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. KW - generational styles KW - priming KW - sociolinguistics KW - experimental KW - positioning KW - narrative templates KW - French KW - doing storytelling KW - narratives from personal experience KW - spoken language Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.18042.ger SN - 1387-6740 VL - 29 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 28 PB - John Benjamins Publishing Co. CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gonzalez-Gomez, Nayeli A1 - Schmandt, Silvana A1 - Fazekas, Judit A1 - Nazzi, Thierry A1 - Gervain, Judit T1 - Infants’ sensitivity to nonadjacent vowel dependencies BT - the case of vowel harmony in Hungarian JF - Journal of experimental child psychology N2 - 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. KW - Early language acquisition KW - Speech perception KW - Vowel harmony KW - Nonadjacent phonological dependencies KW - Hungarian KW - French Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.08.014 SN - 0022-0965 SN - 1096-0457 VL - 178 SP - 170 EP - 183 PB - Elsevier CY - New York 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 -