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Stage 1, In Principle Acceptance

  • Bothe, R., Eiteljörge, S., Trouillet, L., Elsner, B. & Mani, N. (Stage 1, in principle acceptance). Better in sync: Temporal dynamics explain multisensory word-action-object learning in early development. Infancy.

2023

  • Ackermann, L., Förster, M., Schaardschmidt, J., Hepach, R., Mani, N., Eiteljörge, S., ... Eiteljörge, S. (2023). The role of interest in young children’s retention of words. e2466. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2466.
  • Lo, C.-H., Hermes, J., Kartushina, N., Mayor, J. & Mani, N. (2023). e-Babylab: An open-source browser-based tool for unmoderated online developmental studies. Behaviour Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02200-7.
  • 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.
  • Sia, M., Mather, E., Crocker, M. W. & Mani, N. (2023). The role of systematicity in early referent selection. Developmental Science, e13444. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13444.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05840-5.
  • Kartushina, N., Mani, N., Atkin-Erciyes, A., Keller, C., ..., .., Mayor, J., ... 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.
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.2019.104.
  • 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. http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1014.
  • Outters, V., Schreiner, M., Behne, T. & Mani, N. (2020). Maternal input and infants’ response to infant-directed speech. Infancy, 25(4), 478-499. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12334.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • Eiteljörge, 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.
  • 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.
  • Lang, S., Bartl-Pokorny, K.D., Pokorny, F.B., Garrido, D., Mani, N., Fox-Boyer, A.V., Zhang, D. & Marschik, P.B. Canonical Babbling: A marker for earlier identification of late detected developmental disorders. Current Developmental Disorders Reports, doi:10.1007/s40474-019-00166-w
  • Von Holzen, K., Fennell, C.T., & Mani, N. The impact of cross-language phonological overlap on bilingual and monolingual toddlers’ word recognition. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 22(3), 476-499. doi:10.1017/S1366728918000597

2018

  • Mayor, J., & Mani, N. A short version of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories with high validity. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1146-0
  • Wienholz, A., Nuhbalaoglu, D., Mani, N., Herrmann, A., Onea, E., & Steinbach, M. Pointing to the right side? An ERP study on anaphora resolution in German sign language. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204223
  • Mani, N., & Ackermann, L. Why do children learn the words they do? Child Development Perspectives, 12, 253-257.

2017

  • Schreiner, M., & Mani, N. Listen up! Developmental differences in the impact of IDS on speech segmentation. Cognition, 160, 98-102.
  • Brase, J., & Mani, N. Effects of learning context on the acquisition and processing of emotional words in bilinguals. Emotion, 17, 628-639.
  • Mani, N., & Borovsky, A. Building a lexical network. In Westermann, G., & Mani, N. (Eds.) Early word learning. Taylor and Francis Psychology Press: Oxford
  • Westermann, G., & Mani, N. Early Word Learning. Current Issues in Developmental Psychology series. Taylor and Francis.

2016

  • Kriukova, O., & Mani, N. Processing metrical information in silent reading: An ERP study. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, 7, 1432.
  • Kriukova, O., & Mani, N. 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.
  • Kohlstedt, T., & Mani, N. The influence of increasing discourse context on L1 and L2 spoken language processing. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, doi:10.1017/S1366728916001139
  • Mani, N., & Paetzold, W. Sixteen-month-old German infants segment words from infant and adult-directed speech. Language Learning and Development, 12, 499-508.
  • Schreiner, M., Altvater-Mackensen, N., & Mani, N. Early speech segmentation in naturalistic environments: Limited effects of speech register. Infancy, 21, 625-647.
  • Bobb, S., Huettig, F., & Mani, N. Predicting visual information during sentence processing: Toddlers activate an object's shape before it is mentioned. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 151:51-64.
  • Altvater-Mackensen, N., Mani, N., & Grossmann, T. 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, 191-204.
  • Mani, N, Daum, M.M., & Huettig, F. "Pro-active" in many ways: Developmental evidence for a dynamic pluralistic approach to prediction. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
  • Steinbach, M., Mani, N., & Schlesewsky, M. Gestörte und ungestörte Verarbeitung von Gebärdensprachen. In Domahs, U., & Primus, B. (Eds.) Handbuch Laut Gebärde Buchstabe. De Gruyter Mouton: Berlin.
  • Bobb, S.C., Drummon Nauck, L.Y., Altvater-Mackensen, N., Von Holzen, K., & Mani, N. Listening with your cohort: Do bilingual toddlers co-activate cohorts from both languages when hearing words in one language alone? In Schwieter, J.W. (Ed.) Cognitive control and consequences in the multilingual mind. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.

2015

  • Huettig, F., & Mani, N. Is prediction necessary to understand language? Probably not. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31, 19-31, doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1072223
  • Altvater-Mackensen, N., & Mani, N. Phonological features mediate object-label retrieval and word recognition in the visual world paradigm. In Mishra, R. K.,Srinivasan, N., & Huettig, F. (Eds.) Attention and Vision in Language Processing. Springer.

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2008

  • Mani, N., & Plunkett, K. 14-month-olds pay attention to vowels in novel words. Developmental Science, 11, 53-59. .
  • Mani, N., Coleman, J., & Plunkett, K. Phonological specificity of vocalic features at 18-months. Language and Speech, 51, 3-21.
  • Mani, N., & Plunkett. K. Graded sensitivity to mispronunciations of vocalic features in early words. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Cascadilla Press, Boston, 263-274.
  • Mani, N. & Plunkett, K.  Phonological priming in infancy. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, USA.

2007

2004

  • Mani, N.  The role of prosody in parsing ambiguous sentences. Speech Prosody, pp. 301-304.
  • Mani, N.  Prosody and syntax in parsing ambiguous sentences. Proceedings of the 13th Manchester PG Linguistics Conference, 89-95.

 

Dissertation

  • Mani, N. (2006). The Role of Prosody in Parsing Ambiguous Sentences. Doctoral Dissertation: Oxford.

 

Last updated 13.11.2023