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Publikationen
2025
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Eiteljoerge, S., Outters, V., Schildknecht, J. & Mani, N.
(2025).
I learn what I like: children’s preferences but not maternal IDS influence word learning from IDS and ADS.
Language Learning and Development.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2025.2456253.
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Eiteljoerge, S., Matzerath, A., Gweon, H. & Mani, N.
(2025).
Infants follow the gaze of same‐age peers, young children, and adults.
Social Development,
34(1),
e12786.
https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12786.
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Mani, N.
(2025).
Timescales of Rational Inattention.
Developmental Science,
28(1),
e13571.
https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13571.
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Trouillet, L., Bothe, R., Mani, N. & Elsner, B.
(2025).
Goal saliency and verbal information influence the imitation of movements and goals in 20-to 22-month-old toddlers.
Infant Behavior and Development,
79,
102063.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102063.
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Zimmer, L., Sodian, B., Mani, N., Grosso, S., Kristen-Antonow, S., Schuwerk, T., ... Schuwerk, T.
(2025).
Two- to three-year-old toddlers differentiate the epistemic verbs 'know' and 'think' in a preferential looking eye-tracking paradigm.
Developmental Psychology.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0001933.
2024
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Ackermann, L., Förster, M., Schaarschmidt, J., Hepach, R., Mani, N., Eiteljörge, S., ... Eiteljörge, S.
(2024).
The role of interest in young children’s retention of words.
Infant and Child Development,
33(e2466).
https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2466.
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Bothe, R., Eiteljoerge, S., Trouillet, L., Elsner, B. & Mani, N.
(2024).
Better in sync: Temporal dynamics explain multisensory word-action-object learning in early development.
Infancy.
https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12590.
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Bothe, R., Trouillet, L., Elsner, B. & Mani, N.
(2024).
Words and arbitrary actions in early object categorization: weak evidence for a word advantage.
Royal Society Open Science,
11(2),
230648.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230648.
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Eiteljoerge, S., Elsner, B. & Mani, N.
(2024).
Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood.
Language and Cognition.
https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2024.7.
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Lo, C.-H., Hermes, J., Kartushina, N., Mayor, J. & Mani, N.
(2024).
e-Babylab: An open-source browser-based tool for unmoderated online developmental studies.
Behaviour Research Methods,
56(5),
4530-4552.
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02200-7.
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Madhavan, R. & Mani, N.
(2024).
The quality of caregiver-child interaction is predicted by (caregivers’ perception of) their child’s interests.
Royal Society Open Science,
11(4),
231677.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231677.
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Madhavan, R., Malem, B., Ackmermann, L., Mundry, R. & Mani, N.
(2024).
An examination of measures of young children’s interest in natural object categories.
Cortex.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.02.015.
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Schmid, B., Bleijlevens, N., Mani, N. & Behne, T.
(2024).
The cognitive underpinnings and early development of children’s selective trust.
Child Development.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14073.
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Schreiner, M., Zetterson, M., Bergmann, C., Frank, M., Fritzsche, T., Gonzalez-Gomez, N., ... Lippold, M.
(2024).
Limited evidence of test-retest reliability in infant-directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment.
Developmental Science,
e13551.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc.13551.
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Sia, M., Mather, E., Crocker, M. W. & Mani, N.
(2024).
The role of systematicity in early referent selection.
Developmental Science,
27(2),
e13444.
https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13444.
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Sivridag, F. & Mani, N.
(2024).
Children’s word learning from socially contingent robots under active vs. passive learning conditions.
HRI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.
669–677.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3610977.3634931.
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Trouillet, L., Bothe, R., Mani, N. & Elsner, B.
(2024).
The impact of goal saliency and verbal information on selective imitation in 16- to 18-month-olds.
Infancy,
29(5),
713-728.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/infa.12601.
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Trouillet, L., Bothe, R., Mani, N. & Elsner, B.
(2024).
Investigating the role of verbal cues on learning of tool-use actions in 18- and 24-month-olds in an online looking time experiment.
Frontiers in Developmental Psychology,
2(1411276).
https://doi.org/10.3389/fdpys.2024.1411276.
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de Eccher, M., Mundry, R. & Mani, N.
(2024).
Children’s subjective uncertainty-driven sampling behaviour.
Royal Society Open Science,
11(4),
231283.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231283.
2023
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Outters, V., Hepach, R., Behne, T. & Mani, N.
(2023).
Children's affective involvement in early word learning.
Scientific Reports,
13,
7351.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34049-3.
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Sia, M.-Y., Holmboe, K. & Mani, N.
(2023).
The relation between attention, inhibition and word learning in young children.
Collabra: Psychology,
9(1),
90755.
https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.90755.
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Sommerfield, L., Staudte, M., Mani, N. & Kray, J.
(2023).
Even Young Children Make Multiple Predictions in the Complex Visual World.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,
235(105690).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105690.
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Wienholz, A., Nuhbalaoglu-Ayan, D., Mani, N., Hermann, A., Onea, E., Steinbach, M., ... Steinbach, M.
(2023).
Neurophysiological evidence for the first mention effect during pronominal reference resolution in German Sign Language.
Sign Language and Linguistics.
https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.22006.wie.
2022
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Arias-Trejo, N., Q Angulo-Chavira, A., Avila-Varela, D., Chua-Rodriguez, F. & Mani, N.
(2022).
Developmental changes in phonological and semantic priming effects in Spanish-speaking toddlers.
Developmental Psychology,
58(2),
236.
https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001290.
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Bergmann, C., Dimitrova, N., Alaslani, K., Keller, C. & Mani, N.
(2022).
Young children's screen time during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 12 countries.
Scientific Reports,
12(2015).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05840-5.
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Kartushina, N., Mani, N., Etkin-Erciyes, A., ..., .. & Mayor, J.
(2022).
COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains.
Language Development Research,
2(1),
1-36.
https://doi.org/10.34842/abym-xv34..
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Vergilova, Y., Jachmann, T., Mani, N. & Kray, J.
(2022).
Age-related Differences in Expectation-based Novel Word Learning.
Psychophysiology,
59(8),
e14030.
https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14030.
2021
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Avila Varela, D., Arias-Trejo, N. & Mani, N.
(2021).
A longitudinal study of the role of vocabulary size on priming effects in early childhood.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,
205,
105071.
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Byers-Heinlein, K., Tsui, A., Mani, N., Schreiner, M. & Wermelinger, S.
(2021).
A multi-lab study of bilingual infants: Exploring the preference for infant-directed speech.
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.
https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245920974622.
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Mani, N., Schreiner, M., Brase, J., Köhler, K., Strassen, K., Postin, D., ... Schultze, T.
(2021).
Sequential Bayes Factor designs in developmental research: studies on early word learning.
Developmental Science,
24(4),
e13097.
https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13097.
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Panizza, D., Onea, E. & Mani, N.
(2021).
Early ERP evidence for children's and adults' sensitivity to scalar implicatures triggered by existential quantifiers (some).
Frontiers in Psychology,
12,
657408.
https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.657408.
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Wienholz, A., Nuhbalaoglu, D., Steinbach, M., Hermann, A. & Mani, N.
(2021).
Phonological priming in German Sign Language: An eye tracking study using the Visual World Paradigm.
Sign Language and Linguistics,
24,
4-35.
https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.19011.wie.
2020
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Ackermann, L., Hepach, R. & Mani, N.
(2020).
Children learn words easier when they are interested in the category to which the word belongs.
Developmental Science,
23(3),
e12915.
https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12915.
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Ackermann, L., Lo, C.-H., Mani, N. & Mayor, J.
(2020).
Word learning from a tablet app: Toddlers perform better in a passive context.
PLOS One,
15(12),
e0240519.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.024.
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Bobb, S., Von Holzen, K., Mayor, J., Mani, N. & Carreiras, M.
(2020).
Co-activation of the L2 during L1 auditory processing: An ERP cross-modal priming study.
Brain and Language,
203,
104739.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104739.
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Hosemann, J., Mani, N., Hermann, A., Steinbach, M. & Altvater-Mackensen, N.
(2020).
Signs Activate their Written Word Translation. An ERP Study on Cross-modal Co-activation in German Sign Language.
Glossa,
5(1),
57.
http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1014.
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ManyBabies Consortium
(2020).
Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference.
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science,
3(1),
24-52.
https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245919900809.
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Outters, V., Schreiner, M., Behne, T. & Mani, N.
(2020).
Maternal input and infants’ response to infant-directed speech.
Infancy.
https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12334.
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Richter, M., Paul, M., Höhle, B. & Wartenburger, I.
(2020).
Common Ground Information Affects Reference Resolution: Evidence From Behavioral Data, ERPs, and Eye-Tracking.
Frontiers in psychology,
11(3378).
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.5656.
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Schütte, F., Mani, N. & Behne, T.
(2020).
Retrospective inferences in selective trust.
Royal Society Open Science,
7(2),
1-11.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191451.
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Taxitari, L., Twomey, K., Westermann, G. & Mani, N.
(2020).
The limits of early word learning.
Language Learning and Development,
16(1),
1-21.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2019.1670184.
2019
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Eiteljoerge, S., Adam, M., Elsner, B. & Mani, N.
(2019).
Consistency of co-occurring actions influences young children's word learning.
Royal Society Open Science,
6,
190097.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190097.
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Eiteljörge, S., Adam, M., Elsner, B. & Mani, N.
(2019).
Word-object and action-object association learning across early development.
PLOS One,
14(8),
e0220317.
https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.02.
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Lang, S., Bartl-Pokorny, K., Pokorny, F., Garrido, D., Mani, N., Fox-Boyer, A., ... Marschik, P.
(2019).
Canonical Babbling: A marker for earlier identification of late detected developmental disorders.
Current Developmental Disorders Reports.
https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1007/s40474-019-00166-w.
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Mayor, J. & Mani, N.
(2019).
A short version of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories with high validity.
Behavior Research Methods,
51(5),
2248-2255.
https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1146-0.
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Von Holzen, K., Fennell, C. & Mani, N.
(2019).
The impact of cross-language phonological overlap on bilingual and monolingual toddlers’ word recognition.
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
1-24.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1366728918000597, ISSN: 1366-7289.
2018
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Eiteljoerge, S., Pouscoulous, N. & Lieven, E.
(2018).
Some pieces are missing: Implicature production in children.
Frontiers in psychology,
9,
1928.
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Kohlstedt, T. & Mani, N.
(2018).
The influence of increasing discourse context on L1 and L2 spoken language processing.
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition,
21(1),
121-136.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728916001139, ISSN: 1366-7289.
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Mani, N. & Ackermann, L.
(2018).
Why do children learn the words they do?.
Child Development Perspectives,
12(4),
253-257.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12295, ISSN: 1750-8592.
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Wienholz, A., Derya, N., Mani, N., Hermman, A., Onea, E., Steinbach, M., ... Steinbach, M.
(2018).
Pointing to the right side? An ERP study on anaphora resolution in German sign language. .
PLOS One.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.020.
2017
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Brase, J. & Mani, N.
(2017).
Effects of learning context on the acquisition and processing of emotional words in bilinguals.
Emotion,
17(4),
628-639.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000263, ISSN: 1528-3542.
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Mani, N. & Borovsky, A.
(2017).
Building a lexical network.
(). : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
ISBN: 978-1-138-84351-6.
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Schreiner, M. & Mani, N.
(2017).
Listen up! Developmental differences in the impact of IDS on speech segmentation.
Cognition,
160,
98-102.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.12.003, ISSN: 0010-0277.
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Westermann, G. & Mani, N.
(2017).
Early word learning.
ISBN: 978-1-138-84351-6.
2016
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Altvater-Mackensen, N., Mani, N. & Grossmann, T.
(2016).
Audiovisual speech perception in infancy: The influence of vowel identity and infants’ productive abilities on sensitivity to (mis)matches between auditory and visual speech cues.
Developmental Psychology,
52(2),
191-204.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0039964, ISSN: 0012-1649.
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Bobb, S., Nauck, L., Altvater-Mackensen, N., Von Holzen, K. & Mani, N.
(2016).
Listening with Your Cohort: Do Bilingual Toddlers Co-Activate Cohorts from Both Languages When Hearing Words in One Language Alone?.
(). : John Benjamins Publishing Company.
ISBN: 978-90-272-4372-0.
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Bobb, S., Huettig, F. & Mani, N.
(2016).
Predicting visual information during sentence processing: Toddlers activate an object’s shape before it is mentioned.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,
151,
51-64.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2015.11.002, ISSN: 0022-0965.
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Daum, M., Mani, N. & Gampe, A.
(2016).
Special Issue on the 'Interrelations between non-linguistic and linguistic representations of cognition and action in development'.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,
151,
1-4.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.06.002, ISSN: 0022-0965.
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Huettig, F. & Mani, N.
(2016).
Is prediction necessary to understand language? Probably not.
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience,
31(1),
19-31.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2015.1072223, ISSN: 2327-3798.
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Kriukova, O. & Mani, N.
(2016).
Processing metrical information in silent reading: An ERP study.
Frontiers in Psychology,
7,
1432--1432.
ISSN: 1664-1078.
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Kriukova, O. & Mani, N.
(2016).
The strong, the weak, and the first: The impact of phonological stress on processing of orthographic errors in silent reading.
Brain Research,
1636,
208-218.
ISSN: 0006-8993.
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Mani, N., Daum, M. & Huettig, F.
(2016).
“Proactive” in many ways: Developmental evidence for a dynamic pluralistic approach to prediction.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,
69(11),
2189-2201.
ISSN: 17470218.
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Mani, N. & Pätzold, W.
(2016).
Sixteen-month-old infants’ segment words from infant- and adult-directed speech.
Language Learning and Development,
12(4),
499-508.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2016.1171717, ISSN: 1547-5441.
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Schreiner, M., Altvater‐Mackensen, N. & Mani, N.
(2016).
Early word segmentation in naturalistic environments: Limited effects of speech register.
Infancy,
21(5),
625-647.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/infa.12133, ISSN: 1525-0008.
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Steinbach, M., Mani, N. & Schlesewsky, M.
(2016).
Gestörte und ungestörte Verarbeitung von Gebärdensprachen.
(). : De Gruyter Mouton.
2013
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Altvater‐Mackensen, N. & Mani, N.
(2013).
The impact of mispronunciations on toddler word recognition: Evidence for cascaded activation of semantically related words from mispronunciations of familiar words.
Infancy,
18(6),
1030-1052.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/infa.12022, ISSN: 1525-0008.
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Altvater‐Mackensen, N. & Mani, N.
(2013).
Word‐form familiarity bootstraps infant speech segmentation.
Developmental Science,
16(6),
980-990.
ISSN: 1363-755X, https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc.12071.
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Bobb, S. & Mani, N.
(2013).
Categorizing with gender: Does implicit grammatical gender affect semantic processing in 24-month-old toddlers?.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,
115(2),
297-308.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2013.02.006, ISSN: 0022-0965.
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Mani, N., Johnson, E., McQueen, J. & Huettig, F.
(2013).
How yellow is your banana? Toddlers' language-mediated visual search in referent-present tasks.
Developmental Psychology,
49(6),
1036-1044.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0029382, ISSN: 0012-1649.
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Mani, N. & Schneider, S.
(2013).
Speaker Identity Supports Phonetic Category Learning.
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception & Performance,
39(3),
623-629.
ISSN: 00961523.
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Mani, N. & Huettig, F.
(2013).
Towards a complete multiple-mechanism account of predictive language processing: Commentary on Pickering & Garrod. .
Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
36,
265-266.
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Skoruppa, K., Mani, N., Plunkett, K., Cabrol, D. & Peperkamp, S.
(2013).
Early word recognition in sentence context: French and English 24-month-olds' sensitivity to sentence-medial mispronunciations and assimilations.
Infancy,
18(6),
1007-1029.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/infa.12020, ISSN: 1525-0008.
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Skoruppa, K., Mani, N. & Peperkamp, S.
(2013).
Toddlers' processing of phonological alternations: Early compensation for assimilation in English and French.
Child Development,
84(1),
313-330.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01845.x, ISSN: 0009-3920.
2012
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Holzen, K. & Mani, N.
(2012).
Language Nonselective Lexical Access in Bilingual Toddlers.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,
113(4),
569-586.
ISSN: 0022-0965.
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Mani, N., Durrant, S. & Floccia, C.
(2012).
Activation of phonological and semantic codes in toddlers.
Journal of Memory and Language,
66(4),
612-622.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2012.03.003, ISSN: 0749-596X.
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Mani, N. & Huettig, F.
(2012).
Prediction During Language Processing is a Piece of Cake - But Only for Skilled Producers.
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception & Performance,
38(4),
843-847.
ISSN: 00961523.
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Mani, N., Mills, D. & Plunkett, K.
(2012).
Vowels in early words: An event‐related potential study.
Developmental Science,
15(1),
2-11.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01092.x, ISSN: 1363-755X.
2011
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Braun, B., Lemhöfer, K. & Mani, N.
(2011).
Perceiving Unstressed Vowels in Foreign-Accented English.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
129(1),
376-387.
ISSN: 0001-4966, https://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3500688.
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Mani, N. & Plunkett, K.
(2011).
Does size matter? Subsegmental cues to vowel mispronunciation detection.
Journal of Child Language,
38(3),
606-627.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000910000243, ISSN: 0305-0009.
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Mani, N.
(2011).
Phonological Acquisition.
(). : Continuum.
ISBN: 978-0-8264-3423-4.
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Mani, N. & Plunkett, K.
(2011).
Phonological priming and cohort effects in toddlers.
Cognition,
121(2),
196-206.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2011.06.013, ISSN: 0010-0277.
2008
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Mani, N. & Plunkett, K.
(2008).
Fourteen-month-olds pay attention to vowels in novel words.
Developmental Science,
11(1),
53-59.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00645.x, ISSN: 1363-755X.
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Mani, N., Coleman, J. & Plunkett, K.
(2008).
Phonological specificity of vowel contrasts at 18-months.
Language and Speech,
51(1-2),
3-21.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00238309080510010201, ISSN: 0023-8309.
