C07
Limits of variability in phonotactic acquisition due to universal biases
PI(s): Prof. Dr. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan
This project aims at disentangling to what extent phonotactic acquisition is experience-dependent, leading to variability across infants with different language experiences (learning different or multiple languages), and to what extent experience-independent universal biases might place a limit on this acquisition. To this end, we will compare infants growing up mono- or bilingually with German and/or Russian, two phonotactically distinct languages. We will conduct corpus-based lexical statistics to understand what phonotactic input the infants receive, and eye-tracking experiments to test whether the infants’ phonotactic listening preferences are shaped by universal biases beyond their language experience conditions.
Members
Prof. Dr. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan
Universität PotsdamCampus GolmDepartment LinguistikKarl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, Haus 14, Raum 2.3814476 Potsdam
Dr. Rowena Garcia
Universität PotsdamCampus GolmDepartment LinguistikKarl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, Haus 14, Raum 2.3714476 Potsdam
Publications
Types of publications:
- Peer-Reviewed: Papers, Journals, Books, Articles of the CRC
- Talk or Presentation: Talks, Presentations, Posters of the CRC
- SFB-Related: not produced in connection with the CRC, but are thematically appropriate
- Other: Papers, Journals, Books, Articles of the CRC, but not peer-reviewed
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| Author(s) | Title | Year | Published in | Links | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garcia, R., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Infant-directed speech might be tailored for learning phonotactics. | 2022 | Paper presented at the 23rd International Congress of Infant Studies, Ottawa, Canada. 07 - 10 July. | Talk or Presentation | |
| 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. | Talk or Presentation | |
| 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. | Talk or Presentation | |
| 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 | Paper | Peer-Reviewed |