Projekt C07
Die Grenzen der Variabilität im Phonotaktikerwerb aufgrund universaler Biases
PI(s): Prof. Dr. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan
Das Projektziel ist zu separieren, inwieweit der Phonotaktikerwerb von Erfahrung abhängt und damit zu Variabilität unter Babys führt, die sich in ihrer Spracherfahrung unterscheiden (verschiedene oder mehrere Sprachen lernend), und inwieweit erfahrungsunabhängige universale Biases dieser Variabilität Grenzen setzen. Dafür vergleichen wir Babys, die mono- oder bilingual mit Deutsch und/oder Russisch aufwachsen – zwei Sprachen, die sich phonotaktisch deutlich unterscheiden. Mittels Korpus-basierter Lexikonstatistik werden wir untersuchen, welchen phonotaktischen Input Babys erfahren. Mit Eyetracking-Experimenten wird getestet, ob Babys phonotaktische Hörpräferenzen zeigen, die über ihre Spracherfahrung hinaus von universellen Biases bestimmt werden.
MitarbeiterInnen
Prof. Dr. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan (+49) 331 977-2374 natalie.boll-avetisyan@uni-potsdam.de Homepage Universität ResearchGate ORCID
Papers
| Autoren | Titel | Jahr | Erschienen in | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garcia, R., Roeser, J., & Kidd, E. | Online data collection to address language sampling bias: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. | 2022 | Linguistics Vanguard. DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2021-0040 | |
| Aravena-Bravo, P., Cristia, A., Garcia, R., Kotera, H., Kunene Nicolas, R., Laranjo, R., Arokoyo, B., Benavides, S., Benders, T., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Cychosz, M., Dal Ben, R., Diop, Y., Durán-Urzúa, C., Havron, N., Manalili, M., Narasimhan, B., Omane, P., Rowland, C., Kolberg, L., Ssemata, A., Styles, S., Troncoso-Acosta, B., & Woon, F. | Towards diversifying early language development research: First Truly Global International Summer/ Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021 | 2023 | Journal of Cognition and Development DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2023.2231083 | |
| Barrios, A., & Garcia, R. | Filipino Children’s Acquisition of Nominal and Verbal Markers in L1 and L2 Tagalog. | 2023 | Languages, 8(3), 188. DOI: 10.3390/languages8030188 | |
| Garcia, R., Roeser, J., & Kidd, E. | Finding your voice: Voice-specific effects in Tagalog reveal the limits of word order priming. | 2023 | Cognition, 236, 105424. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105424 | |
| Piot, L., Nazi, T., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Infants' sensitivity to phonotactic regularities related to perceptually low-salient fricatives: a cross-linguistic study. | 2024 | Frontiers in Psychology, 15. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1367240 | |
| Pizarro-Guevara, J. S., & Garcia, R. | Philippine Psycholinguistics. | 2024 | Annual Review of Linguistics, 10, 145-167. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031522-102844 | |
| Piot, L., Nazzi, T., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Bilingual adults’ phonotactic knowledge: a lexical decision task. | 2024 | OSF pre-registration. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/AEP28 | |
| Piot, L., Nazzi, T., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Phonotactic intuition in French/German bilingual adults, a metalinguistic wellformedness judgment task. | 2023 | OSF pre-registration. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/YDA94 | |
| Garcia, R., Lu, Y., Tsuji, S., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Japanese-learning infants' sonority sequencing preference: Rises vs. falls. | 2024 | OSF pre-registration. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/4JFHS | |
| Garcia, R., Lu, Y., Tsuji, S., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | German infants' sonority sequencing preference: Plateaus vs. falls. | 2024 | OSF pre-registration. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/5ECNQ | |
| Panchenko, Y., Garcia, R., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | The perception of consonant clusters in Russian speakers: The Sonority Sequencing Principle as a gradient phenomenon? | 2024 | OSF pre-registration. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/B25JG | |
| Garcia, R., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Phonetic discrimination in Tagalog-learning infants: Follow-up experiments. | 2024 | OSF pre-registration. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/3AQWY | |
| Garcia, R., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Phonetic discrimination in Tagalog-learning infants. | 2023 | OSF pre-registration. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/82V49 | |
| Garcia, R., Lu, Y., Tsuji, S., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | German infants' sonority sequencing preference: Rises vs. falls. | 2023 | OSF pre-registration. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/FKARP | |
| Garcia, R., Albert, H. M. D., Bondoc, I. P., & Marzan, J. C. B. | Collecting language acquisition data from understudied urban communities: A reply to Cristia et al. | 2023 | Journal of Child Language, 50(3), 522-526. DOI: 10.1017/S0305000922000721 | |
| Engbert, R., Funken, J., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Towards dynamical modeling of infants’ looking times. | 2025 | WIREs Cognitive Science, 16, e70006. DOI: 10.1002/wcs.70006 | |
| Piot, L., Nazzi, T., Boll-Avetisyan, N., van Ommen, S., & Schmandt, S. | Phonological biases in lexical access in French and German: data from a familiar word-recognition conflict task. | to appear | Infant Behavior and Development. |
Talks
| Autoren | Titel | Jahr | Erschienen in | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garcia, R., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Infant-directed speech might be tailored for learning phonotactics. | 2022 | Paper presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies (XXIII ICIS - Developmental Cascades), Ottawa, Canada. 07 - 10 July. | |
| Garcia, R., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Infant-directed speech might be tailored for learning phonotactic principles. | 2022 | Paper presented at the 18th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (Online). 23 - 25 June, 2022. | |
| Garcia, R., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Infant-directed speech supports phonotactic learning in German. | 2022 | Paper presented at the Workshop on Infant Language Development, San Sebastián, Spain. 09 - 11 June, 2022. | |
| Omane, P.O., Benders, T., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Effects of multilingual exposure to harmonic and non-harmonic languages on perceptual preferences in infants growing up in Africa | 2022 | Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies (XXIII ICIS - Developmental Cascades), Ottawa, Canada. 07 - 10 July. | |
| Garcia, R., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Gradient phonotactics in acquisition: A cross-linguistic corpus study. | 2022 | Paper presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference (GALA 15), Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt a.M., Germany. 22-24 September. | |
| Garcia, R., & The Truly Global L+ school organziers | Running a truly international school on early language development. | 2022 | Poster presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies (XXIII ICIS - Developmental Cascades), Ottawa, Canada. 07 - 10 July. | |
| Garcia, R. | The lack of diversity in child language research and what we can do about it. | 2022 | Invited talk at the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan colloquium, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Online. 07 Septembe | |
| Garcia, R., Lu, Y., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Limits of variability in infant phonotactic acquisition: A study on the sonority sequencing principle. | 2023 | Poster presented at the Many Paths to Language (MPaL) 2023, Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 25-27 October. | |
| Omane, P.O., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Benders, T. | Does exposure to tongue root harmony and non-vowel harmony languages affect perceptual preferences in infants growing up in Africa? Data from multilingual infants in Ghana | 2023 | Paper presented at the 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 54), University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. 12-14 June. | |
| Omane, P.O., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Benders, T. | How do multilingual infants in Ghana use vowel harmony cues for word segmentation? Effects of exposure to harmonic and non-harmonic languages | 2023 | Paper presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB14), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. 26-30 June. | |
| Omane, P.O., Benders, T., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Tongue Root harmony acquisition and word segmentation in multilingual infant learners of languages with and without vowel harmony | 2023 | Paper presented at the Many Paths to Language (MPaL 2023), Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 25-27 October. | |
| Garcia, R. | Sonority sequencing effects on infants’ phonotactic acquisition: A study on German and Japanese. | 2023 | Invited Talk at the University of Tokyo, Japan. December. | |
| Garcia, R. | Increasing language coverage while building a more diverse discipline: A challenge for language acquisition. | 2023 | Invited talk at the RTG 2070 Colloquium, University of Göttingen, Göttingen,Germany. November. | |
| Garcia, R. | Conducting psycholinguistic research in urban communities: Challenges and solutions. | 2023 | Invited talk at the Cameroonian Association of Psycholinguistics and Clinical linguistics conference, Online. July. | |
| Garcia, R. | Diversity in child language acquisition research. | 2023 | Invited talk at the Friday Primes, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 27 January. | |
| Garcia, R., Langus, A., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Infants’ sensitivity to sonority sequencing: evidence from behavior and pupillary synchronization. | 2024 | Paper presented at the Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD 2024), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. 19-21 June. | |
| Omane, P.O., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Benders, T. | Multilingual infants in Ghana’s ability to use tongue root harmony cues for word segmentation in Akan | 2024 | Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies (XXIV ICIS), Glasgow, UK. 08 - 11 July. | |
| Piot, L., Nazzi, T., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Infants’ phonotactic sensitivities to regularities involving low-salient fricatives: a cross-linguistic study. | 2024 | Paper presented at the Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD 2024), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. 19-21 June. | |
| Piot, L., Nazzi, T., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Auditory phonotactic wellformedness intuitions depend on the nativeness of a speaker’s pronunciation. | 2024 | Paper presented at the Linguistic Evidence 2024, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. 22-23 February. | |
| Piot, L., Nazzi, T., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Wordlikeness intuitions depend on the nativeness of a speaker’s pronunciation. | 2024 | Paper presented at the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 19 - Where speech sounds meet the architecture of the grammar and beyond), Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. 27 - 29 June. | |
| Piot, L., Van Ommen, S., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Schmandt, S., & Nazzi, T. | The consonant-bias is influenced by syllabic position in a familiar word recognition conflict task, a cross-linguistic study of German- and French-learning toddlers. | 2024 | Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies (XXIV ICIS), Glasgow, UK. 08 - 11 July. | |
| Garcia, R., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Phonetic discrimination in Tagalog-learning infants: Testing the influence of acoustic salience. | 2024 | Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies (XXIV ICIS), Glasgow, UK. 08 - 11 July. | |
| Garcia, R., Valdez, M., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Acquisition of Tagalog nasals: A field psycholinguistic study with infants. | 2024 | Poster presented at the The 31st Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA., USA. 11-14 June. | |
| Garcia, R. | Casting a wider linguistic net: Language acquisition insights from an Austronesian language. | 2024 | Plenary talk at the 16th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Prague, Czech Republic. 15-19 July. | |
| Garcia, R. | Infants’ sensitivity to phonotactics: From universal to language-specific preferences. | 2024 | nvited talk at the Potsdam Phonotactics Workshop, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. March. | |
| Langus, A., & Boll-Avetisyan, N | Musical experience is linked with infants’ pupillary entrainment to speech. | 2024 | Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS XXIV), Symposium: Comparing the Forms, Functions, and Benefits of Different Modes of Infant-Directed Communication, Glasgow, Scotland. 08-11 July. |
