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
Campus GolmHaus 14, Raum 2.38
(+49) 331 977-2374
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- Other: Papers, Journals, Books, Articles of the CRC, but not peer-reviewed
| 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, 2022. | 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, 2022. | 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, 2022. | 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 | Peer-Reviewed | |
| 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 | Peer-Reviewed | |
| 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 DevelopmentDOI: 10.1080/15248372.2023.2231083 | Peer-Reviewed | |
| Garcia, R., Langus, A., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Infants’ sensitivity to sonority sequencing: evidence from behavior and pupillary synchronization. | 2024 | Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD 2024), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. 19 - 21 June. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Garcia, R., Lu, Y., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Limits of variability in infant phonotactic acquisition: A study on the sonority sequencing principle. | 2023 | Many Paths to Language (MPaL), October 25-27, 2023. Max Plank Institute. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. | Talk or Presentation | |
| 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 | International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS XXIV), Glasgow, Scotland. 8 - 11 July. | Talk or Presentation | |
| 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 | 54th Association of Contemporary African Linguistics Conference (ACAL54), June 12-15, 2023, University of Connecticut. USA. | Talk or Presentation | |
| 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 | International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB14), Sydney, Australia, June 26-30, 2023. | Talk or Presentation | |
| 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 | International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS XXIII), Ottawa, Canada, July 7-10, 2022. | Talk or Presentation | |
| 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 | Many Paths to Language (MPaL), October 25-27, 2023. Max Plank Institute. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Piot, L., Nazzi, T., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Infants’ phonotactic sensitivities to regularities involving low-salient fricatives: a cross-linguistic study. | 2024 | Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD 2024), June 19-21, Lisbon, Portugal. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Piot, L., Nazzi, T., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Auditory phonotactic wellformedness intuitions depend on the nativeness of a speaker’s pronunciation. | 2024 | Linguistic Evidence 2024, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, 22-23 February. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Piot, L., Nazzi, T., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Wordlikeness intuitions depend on the nativeness of a speaker’s pronunciation. | 2024 | LabPhon 19, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. 27-29 June. | Talk or Presentation | |
| 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 | International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS XXIV), July 8-11, 2024. Glasgow, Scotland | Talk or Presentation | |
| Garcia, R., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Phonetic discrimination in Tagalog-learning infants: Testing the influence of acoustic salience. | 2024 | International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS XXIV), Glasgow, Scotland. 8 - 11 July. | Talk or Presentation |