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.
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- Peer-Reviewed: Paper, Zeitschriften, Bücher, Artikel des SFB
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- Other: Paper, Zeitschriften, Bücher, Artikel des SFB, jedoch nicht peer-reviewed
Autoren | Titel | Jahr | Erschienen in | Typ | Links |
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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. | 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 Development DOI: 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 | Paper presented at the 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 | Poster presented at the Many Paths to Language (MPaL) 2023, Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 25-27 October. | 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 | Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies (XXIV ICIS), Glasgow, UK. 08 - 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 | Paper presented at the 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 54), University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. 12-14 June. | 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 | Paper presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB14), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. 26-30 June. | 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 | Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies (XXIII ICIS - Developmental Cascades), Ottawa, Canada. 07 - 10 July. | 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 | Paper presented at the Many Paths to Language (MPaL 2023), Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 25-27 October. | Talk or Presentation | |
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. | Talk or Presentation | |
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. | Talk or Presentation | |
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. | 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 | Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies (XXIV ICIS), Glasgow, UK. 08 - 11 July. | Talk or Presentation | |
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. | Talk or Presentation | |
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 | Peer-Reviewed | |
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 | Peer-Reviewed | |
Pizarro-Guevara, J. S., & Garcia, R. | Philippine Psycholinguistics. | 2024 | Annual Review of Linguistics, 10, 145-167. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031522-102844 | Peer-Reviewed | |
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 | SFB-Related | |
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. | Talk or Presentation | |
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. | Talk or Presentation | |
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. | Talk or Presentation | |
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. | Talk or Presentation | |
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. | Talk or Presentation | |
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. | Talk or Presentation | |
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. | Talk or Presentation | |
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. | Talk or Presentation | |
Garcia, R. | Diversity in child language acquisition research. | 2023 | Invited talk at the Friday Primes, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 27 January. | Talk or Presentation | |
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 | Talk or Presentation | |
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 | Other | |
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 | Other | |
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 | Other | |
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 | Other | |
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 | Other | |
Garcia, R., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Phonetic discrimination in Tagalog-learning infants: Follow-up experiments. | 2024 | OSF pre-registration. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/3AQWY | Other | |
Garcia, R., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. | Phonetic discrimination in Tagalog-learning infants. | 2023 | OSF pre-registration. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/82V49 | Other | |
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 | Other | |
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. | Talk or Presentation |