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Developmental Psycholinguistics

Prof. Dr. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan

 

Campus Golm
House 14, Room 2.38

Department Linguistics
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam

 

consulting hours
by appointment

Research Focus

Team

Publications (automatically retrieved from ORCID)

Natalie Boll-Avetisyan

2025

Hullebus, M. A., Gafos, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Langus, A., Fritzsche, T., & Hohle, B. (2025). Infant preference for specific phonetic cue relations in the contrast between voiced and voiceless stops. Infancy. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12630
Omane, P. O., Benders, T., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2025). Exploring the nature of multilingual input to infants in multiple caregiver families in an African city: The case of Accra (Ghana). Cognitive Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2025.101558

2024

Aravena-Bravo, P., Cristia, A., Garcia, R., Kotera, H., Nicolas, R. K., Laranjo, R., Arokoyo, B. E., Benavides-Varela, S., Benders, T., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Cychosz, M., Ben, R. D., Diop, Y., Duran-Urzua, C., Havron, N., Manalili, M., Narasimhan, B., Omane, P. O., Rowland, C., … Woon, F. T. (2024). Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021. Journal of Cognition and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2023.2231083
Boll-Avetisyan, N., Shandala, A., & Langus, A. (2024). Infants show systematic rhythmic motor responses while listening to rhythmic speech. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1370007
Kaland, C., Bhatara, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Nazzi, T. (2024a, July 2). Prosodic grouping in Akan and the applicability of the iambic-trochaic law. Speech Prosody 2024. https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2024-210
Kaland, C., Bhatara, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Nazzi, T. (2024b). Prosodic grouping in Papuan Malay, Akan and German. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3y2wr
Kotera, H., Khattab, G., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Hohle, B. (2024). German infants’ discrimination of the English /æ/-/ɛ/ contrast: Evidence from a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study. Infant Behavior and Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101984
Omane, P. O., Benders, T., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2024a). Vowel harmony preferences in infants growing up in multilingual Ghana (Africa). Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001776
Omane, P. O., Benders, T., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2024b). Exploring the nature of multilingual input to infants in multiple caregiver families in an African city: the case of Accra (Ghana). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4uxj6
Omane, P. O., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Benders, T. (2024). Tongue root harmony cues for speech segmentation in multilingually raised infants learning languages with and without vowel harmony in Ghana (Africa). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e89gb
Piot, L., Nazzi, T., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2024). Infants’ sensitivity to phonotactic regularities related to perceptually low-salient fricatives: a cross-linguistic study. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1367240
Vanoncini, M., Hoehl, S., Elsner, B., Wallot, S., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Kayhan, E. (2024). Mother-infant social gaze dynamics relate to infant brain activity and word segmentation. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101331

2023

Aravena-Bravo, P., Cristia, A., Garcia, R., Kotera, H., Nicolas, R. K., Laranjo, R., Arokoyo, B., Benavides-Varela, S., Benders, T., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Cychosz, M., Ben, R. D., Diop, Y., Duran-Urzua, C., Havron, N., Manalili, M. A. R., Narasimhan, B., Omane, P. O., Rowland, C. F., … Woon, F. T. (2023). Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: First Truly Global International Summer/ Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/a3dy8
Boll-Avetisyan, N., Langus, A., Boll‐Avetisyan, N., van Ommen, S., & Nazzi, T. (2023). Music and language in the crib: Early cross‐domain effects of experience on categorical perception of prominence in spoken language. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13383
Boll-Avetisyan, N., van Ommen, S., Hohle, B., & Nazzi, T. (2023). Categorical perception of lexical stress by adult listeners. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cjvmu
Paul Okyere, O., Titia, B., Reginald Akuoko, D., & BOLL-AVETISYAN, N. (2023). Diversifying language acquisition research can be (partly) achieved in urban societies and with simplified methodologies: Insights from multilingual Ghana. Journal of Child Language, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000923000090

2021

Gasparini, L., Langus, A., Tsuji, S., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2021). Quantifying the role of rhythm in infants language discrimination abilities: A meta-analysis. Cognition, 213, 104757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104757
Hohle, B., Fritzsche, T., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Hullebus, M., & Gafos, A. (2021). Respect the surroundings: Effects of phonetic context variability on infants learning of minimal pairs. JASA Express Letters, 1(2), 24401. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0003574

2020

Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2020). Speech rhythm in Ghanaian languages: The cases of Akan, Ewe and Ghanaian English. 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020. https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2020-120
Boll-Avetisyan, N., Bhatara, A., & HAhle, B. (2020). Processing of Rhythm in Speech and Music in Adult Dyslexia. Brain Sciences, 10(5), 261. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10050261
Boll-Avetisyan, N., Bhatara, A., Unger, A., Nazzi, T., & HAhle, B. (2020). Rhythmic grouping biases in simultaneous bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23(5), 1070–1081. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1366728920000140
Gasparini, L., Langus, A., Tsuji, S., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2020). Quantifying the role of rhythm in infants’ language discrimination abilities:  A meta-analysis. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/rmn5x
van Ommen, S., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Larraza, S., Wellmann, C., Bijeljac-Babic, R., HAhle, B., & Nazzi, T. (2020). Language-specific prosodic acquisition: A comparison of phrase boundary perception by French- and German-learning infants. Journal of Memory and Language, 112, 104108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104108

2018

Bhatara, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Hohle, B., & Nazzi, T. (2018). Chapter~3. Early sensitivity and acquisition of prosodic patterns at the lexical level. In Trends in Language Acquisition Research (pp. 37–57). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.23.03bha
Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2018a). Neural response development during distributional learning. []. https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2018
Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2018b). Short-term exposure enhances perception of both between- and within-category acoustic information. 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018. https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2018-23

2017

Boll-Avetisyan, N., Bhatara, A., & Hohle, B. (2017). Effects of Musicality on the Perception of Rhythmic Structure in Speech. Laboratory Phonology. https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.91

2016

Abboub, N., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Bhatara, A., Hohle, B., & Nazzi, T. (2016). An Exploration of Rhythmic Grouping of Speech Sequences by French- and German-Learning Infants. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00292
Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2016a). Second Language Ability and Emotional Prosody Perception. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156855
Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2016b). Language Experience Affects Grouping of Musical Instrument Sounds. Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12300
Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Kager, R. (2016). Is speech processing influenced by abstract or detailed phonotactic representations? The case of the Obligatory Contour Principle. Lingua, 171, 74–91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2015.11.008

2015

BOLL-AVETISYAN, N., ANJALI, B., ANNIKA, U., THIERRY, N., & BARBARA, H. (2015). Effects of experience with L2 and music on rhythmic grouping by French listeners. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19(05), 971–986. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1366728915000425

2014

Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2014). OCP-PLACE in Speech Segmentation. Language and Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830913508074

2013

Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2013). Native language affects rhythmic grouping of speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4823848
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