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Effekte von Variabilität im Input auf Wortlernen und Worterkennen bei Kleinkindern

PI(s): Prof. Dr. Barbara Höhle & Prof. Dr. Adamantios Gafos

In der gesprochenen Sprache gibt es keine Eins-zu-eins-Beziehung zwischen Eigenschaften des akustischen Signals und abstrakten symbolischen Repräsentationen. Dies wirft die Frage auf, wie Säuglinge die lexikalisch relevanten phonetischen Lautdimensionen in ihrem sprachlichen Input erkennen. Das Projekt überprüft die Hypothese, dass bestimmte Arten von akustischer Variabilität entscheidend für diesen Erwerbsprozess sind. Wir vergleichen die Wirkung verschiedener Typen von Variabilität auf den Worterwerb und die Sprachwahrnehmung unter der Annahme von inputgesteuerten Lernmechanismen, die die lexikalische Entwicklung unterstützen.

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Effekte von Variabilität im Input auf Wortlernen und Worterkennen bei Kleinkindern

PI(s): Prof. Dr. Barbara Höhle & Prof. Dr. Adamantios Gafos

Das Projekt untersucht Effekte von phonetischer und akustischer Variabilität im sprachlichen Input auf die Etablierung phonologischer Kategorien im frühen Erstspracherwerb. Hierbei wird die Hypothese verfolgt, dass spezifische Typen von Variabilität positive Effekte auf die Kategorienbildung hat, andere Typen von Variabilität die Kategorisierung hingegen nicht stützt und sogar erschwert. Ein wesentlicher Teil unserer experimentellen Untersuchungen umfasst Lernexperimente mit 14-Monate alten Kleinkindern und zwar Wortlernexperimente, die vor allen Dingen auf das Lernen und Differenzieren von Minimalpaaren abzielen. Im Fokus steht die Hypothese, dass nur spezifische Formen von Variabilität das Erkennen phonologischer relevanter akustischer Dimensionen im Signal erleichtern.

In einem ersten Untersuchungsblock konnten wir vorherige Befunde bestätigen, nach denen die Präsentation der Wörter im Experiment durch mehrere Sprecher das Lernen von Minimalpaaren ermöglicht, während sich bei der Präsentation durch einen einzigen Sprecher kein Lernerfolg zeigte. Folgeuntersuchungen konnten belegen, dass sich dieser Effekt auf Variabilität im akustischen Signal beschränkt, Variabilität in der visuellen Präsentation des Referenten des zu lernenden Wortes zeigte hingegen keinerlei positive Effekt auf das Differenzieren von Minimalpaaren.

Im dritten Untersuchungsblock wird die Hypothese getestet, dass phonetische Variabilität, die die in natürlicher Sprache beobachtete Relationen von Kovariabilität verschiedener phonetischer Dimensionen repräsentieren, Kategoriebildung in besonderer Weise unterstützt. Hierbei soll zum einen untersucht werden, ab welchem Alter Säuglinge für diese natürlichen Relationen sensitiv sind und zum anderen, ob Stimuli, die diese natürlichen Relationen aufweisen, besser gelernt werden als Stimuli, die diesen Relationen nicht entsprechen. Es werden unterschiedliche experimentelle Methoden der frühkindlichen Entwicklungsforschung verwendet: Blickbewegungsmessung verbunden mit Habituierungs- und Familiarisierungstechniken, Lernexperimente, Analysen der Pupillenveränderung.

MitarbeiterInnen

Gafos
Prof. Dr. Adamantios Gafos
Campus GolmHaus 14, Raum 3.15/3.16
(+49) 331 977-2777
Höhle
Prof. Dr. Barbara Höhle
Campus GolmHaus 14, Raum 2.11
(+49) 331 977-2948
Hullebus
Marc Hullebus
Campus GolmHaus 14, Raum 3.28
Langus
Dr. phil. Alan Langus
Campus GolmHaus 14, Raum 2.37
(+49) 331 977-2916

Publikationen

  • 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)TitleYearPublished inLinksType
Höhle, B., Fritzsche, T., Mess, K., Philipp, M., & Gafos, A.Only the right noise? Effects of phonetic and visual input variability on 14-month-olds' minimal pair word learning.2020Developmental Science, 23(5), e12950. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12950
Peer-Reviewed
Höhle, B., Bijeljac-Babic, R., & Nazzi, T.Variability and stability in early language acquisition: Comparing monolingual and bilingual infants' speech perception and word recognition.2019Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23(1), 56-71. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728919000348
Peer-Reviewed
Boll-Avetisyan, N., Bhatara, A., & Höhle, B.Processing of Rhythm in Speech and Music in Adult Dyslexia.2020Brain Sciences, 10(5), 261. DOI: 10.3390/brainsci10050261
Peer-Reviewed
Höhle, B., Fritzsche, T., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Hullebus, M., & Gafos, A. I.Respect the surroundings: Effects of phonetic context variability on infants' learning of minimal pairs.2021JASA Express Letters, 1(2), 024401. DOI: 10.1121/10.0003574
Peer-Reviewed
Tobin, S., Hullebus, M., & Gafos, A. I.Immediate phonetic convergence in a cue-distractor paradigm.2018The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144(6), EL528. DOI: 10.1121/1.5082984
Peer-Reviewed
Hullebus, M., Tobin, S., & Gafos, A.Speaker-specific structure in German voiceless stop voice onset times.2018Proceedings of Interspeech 2018 (pp.1403-1407). Hyderabad, India. DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2018-2288Other
Bhatara, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Höhle, B., & Nazzi, T.Early sensitivity and acquisition of prosodic patterns at the lexical level.2018N. Esteve-Gibert & P. Prieto (Eds.), The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition (pp. 37-57). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI: 10.1075/tilar.23.03bhaSFB-Related
Boll-Avetisyan, N.The role of phonological structure in speech segmentation by infants and adults: a review and methodological considerations.2018C. Ulbrich, A. Werth, & R. Wiese (Eds.), Empirical Approaces to the Phonological Structure of Words (pp. 213-240). Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter. DOI: 10.1515/9783110542899-009SFB-Related
Boll-Avetisyan, N., Nixon, J., Lentz, T., Liu, L., van Ommen, S., Coltekin, C., & van Rij, J.Neural response development during distributional learning.2018Proceedings of Interspeech 2018 (pp.1432-1436). Hyderabad, India. DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2018-2072SFB-Related
Junge, C., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Benders, T.Speech Perception and discrimination: from sounds to words.2019J. Horst & J. von Koss Torkildsen (Eds.), International Handbook of Language Acquisition (pp. 153-172). New York: Routledge.SFB-Related
Nixon, J., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Lentz, T.O., van Ommen, S., Keij, B., Çöltekin, Ç., Liu, L., & van Rij, J.Short-term exposure enhances perception of both between- and within-category acoustic information.2018Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018 (pp. 114-118). DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-23SFB-Related
Boll-Avetisyan, N.How short-term exposure alters the sensitivity to a non-native phonetic contrast: Novel insights from ERP and behavioral measures.2018Invited talk at the Linguistisches Kolloquium, Phillips-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany. 05 December.Talk or Presentation
Boll-Avetisyan, N.Determinants of variability and consistency in prosody perception.2018Invited talk at the Linguistisches Kolloquium, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. 28 November.Talk or Presentation
Boll-Avetisyan, N.We got the beat: The role of innate biases and input factors in prosody acquisition.2018Invited talk at the 40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Kurz AG 14: Variable perception and production correlates for word stress in first language acquisition and child second language learning, Stuttgart, Germany. 07 - 09 March.Talk or Presentation
Boll-Avetisyan, N.Early infancy predictors of later language performance.2017Invited talk at the Exploratory Workshop on Early Language Assessment, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. 11 - 14 September.Talk or Presentation
Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Fritzsche, T.Segmentation of vowel-initial words from continuous speech in infancy.2018Poster presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS 2018 - Building Bridges), Philadelphia, PA, USA. 30 June - 03 July.
Talk or Presentation
Boll-Avetisyan, N., Fritzsche, T. & Jäkel, C.Recognition of vowel-initial words in continuous speech at 11 months: Evidence from German.2017Paper presented at the 2nd Lancaster International Conference on Infant and Early Child Development (LCICD 2017), Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. 23 - 25 August.Talk or Presentation
Boll-Avetisyan, N., van Ommen, S., Nazzi, T., & Höhle, B.Lexical stress discrimination by simultaneous and late bilinguals.2018Poster presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism and Cognition 2018, Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani - KK Birla Campus Goa, Goa, India. 01 - 03 November.
Talk or Presentation
Boll-Avetisyan, N., van Ommen, S., Nazzi, T., & Höhle, B.Categorical perception of lexical stress in French L2 learners of German: Effects of musical acuity.2018Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, USA. 02 - 04 November.
Talk or Presentation
Boll-Avetisyan, N., van Ommen, S., Nazzi, T., & Höhle, B.Stress “deafness” can be overcome: Evidence from Second language learners.2018Paper presented at the 28th Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 2018), Münster, Germany. 05 - 08 September.Talk or Presentation
Boll-Avetisyan, N., van Ommen, S., Nazzi, T., & Höhle, B.Categorical perception of lexical stress by simultaneous and late bilinguals.2018Paper presented at the LabPhon16 - Variation, development and impairment: Between phonetics and phonology, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. 19 - 22 June.Talk or Presentation
Brown, J. M. M., & Boll-Avetisyan, N.Artificial language learning experiments for testing the learnability of possible and impossible syntactic structures and previous exposure bias.2019Paper presented at the 3rd RTANJ-Workshop, Rtanj Mountain, Serbia. 04-07 July.
Talk or Presentation
Dimitriadis, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Fritzsche, T.Measuring the learnability of morphological paradigms: An experimental study.2017Paper presented at the Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Linguistic Theory (CIALT-1), University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece. 06 - 08 October.Talk or Presentation
Dimitriadis, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Fritzsche, T.An experimental study of the learnability advantage of agglutinative over fusional morphology.2017Paper presented at the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Zurich, Switzerland. 10 - 13 September.Talk or Presentation
Fritzsche, T., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Hullebus, M., Gafos, A. I., & Höhle, B.How brief exposure to varying phonetic contexts can enhance minimal pair word learning in 14-month-old children.2020Poster presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies (XXII vICIS), Glasgow, UK. 06 - 09 July.
Talk or Presentation
Fritzsche, T., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Hullebus, M., Gafos, A. I., & Höhle, B.Give me more! Increasing relevant acoustic variability aids 14-month-old children in learning minimal pairs.2020Poster presented at the 17th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon17), Online. Vancouver, Canada. 06 - 08 July.
Talk or Presentation
Fritzsche, T., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Markmann, E., Gafos, A. I., & Höhle, B.The facilitative effect of phonetic context variability on early word learning: A habituation study with 14-month-old children.2020Poster presented at the 10th Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD), Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. 09-11 January.
Talk or Presentation
Fritzsche, T., Gafos, A. I., & Höhle, B.Is any type of input variability beneficial for mapping novel words to objects in 14-month-old infants?2018Paper presented at the 3rd Lancaster International Conference on Infant and Early Child Development (LCICD 2018), Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. 05 - 07 September.
Talk or Presentation
Fritzsche, T., Gafos, A. I., & Höhle, B.The beneficial role of variability for acquiring novel words: A habituation study with 14-month-old German-learning children.2018Poster presented at the 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon16 - Variation, development and impairment: Between phonetics and phonology), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. 19 - 22 June.
Talk or Presentation
Höhle, B.Phonological information in language development and language processing: How to find phonological stability in a sea of sound.2017Invited talk at the Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Université Paris Descatres, Paris, France. March.Talk or Presentation
Höhle, B., Fritzsche, T., & Gafos, A. I.Input variability in learning novel object-label pairs: How specific are beneficial effects?2018Poster presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies (XXI ICIS - Building Bridges), Philadelphia, USA. 30 June - 03 July.
Talk or Presentation
Hullebus, M., Tobin, S. J., & Gafos, A. Speaker-specific structure in German voiceless stop voice onset times.2018Paper presented at the Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India. 02 - 06 September.Talk or Presentation
Omane, P. O., & Höhle, B.Acquiring Syntactic Variability: The Production of Wh-Questions in Children and Adults Speaking Akan.2021Frontiers in Communication, 6. DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2021.604951
Peer-Reviewed
Marimon, M., Höhle, B., & Langus, A.Pupillary entrainment reveals individual differences in cue weighting in 9-month-old German-learning infants.2022Cognition, 224, 105054. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105054Peer-Reviewed
Höhle, B.Not only noise: effects of acoustic variability on the development of phonological categories in early language acquisition.2022Invited talk at the Workshop: Hearing and Linguistics, Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Germany. 13 - 14 May.Talk or Presentation
Knabe, M., Fritzsche, T., Langus, A., Hullebus, M., Gafos, A. I., & Höhle, B.The effect of interleaving on minimal pair learning: A preferential looking paradigm with 14-month-old infants.2023Poster presented at the 13th Annual Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD), Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. 06 January. Talk or Presentation
Höhle, B.What the eyes can tell about language acquisition.2023Invited talk at the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. 05 April. Talk or Presentation

Kontakt:

Universität Potsdam Department Linguistik Prof. Dr. Doreen Georgi Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25 Haus 14, Raum 3.33 14476 Potsdam
(+49) 331 977-2968 doreen.georgi@uni-potsdam.de