Journal article

Floccia, C., Nazzi, T., DelleLuche, C., Poltrock, S., & Goslin, J. (2013). English-learning one- to two-year-olds do not show a consonant bias in word learning. Journal of Child Language, in press.

Gonzalez-Gomez, N., & Nazzi, T. (2013). Effects of prior phonotactic knowledge on infant word segmentation: the case of non-adjacent dependencies. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, in press.

Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Poltrock, S., & Nazzi, T. (2013). A “bat” is easier to learn than a “tab”: Effects of relative phonotactic frequency on infant word learning. PlosOne, 8(3), e59601.

Havy, M., Nazzi, T., & Bertoncini, J. (2013). Phonetic processing during the acquisition of new words in 3-to-6-year-old French-speaking deaf children with cochlear implants. Journal of Communication Disorders, 46, 181–192.

Havy, M., Serres, J., & Nazzi, T. (2013). A consonant/vowel asymmetry in word-form processing: Evidence in childhood and in adulthood. Language and Speech, in press.

Legendre, G., Culbertson, J., Zaroukian, E., Hsin, L., Barrière, I., & Nazzi, T. (2013). Is children’s comprehension of subject-verb agreement universally late? Comparative evidence from French, English, and Spanish. Lingua, in press.

Nazzi, T., Mersad, K., Sundara, M., Iakimova, G., & Polka, L. (2013). Early word segmentation in infants acquiring Parisian French: task-dependent and dialect-specific aspects. Journal of Child Language, in press.

New, B., & Nazzi, T. (2013). The time course of consonant and vowel processing during word recognition. Language and Cognitive Processes, in press.

Bijeljac-Babic, R., Serres, J., Hohle, B., & Nazzi, T. (2012). Effect of bilingualism on lexical stress pattern discrimination in French-learning infants. PLoS ONE, 7(2), e30843.

Gonzalez-Gomez, N., & Nazzi, T. (2012). Acquisition of non-adjacent phonological regularities in the first year of life: Evidence from a perceptual equivalent of the labial-coronal effect. Infancy, 17(5), 498–524.

Gonzalez-Gomez, N., & Nazzi, T. (2012). Phonotactic acquisition in healthy preterm infants. Developmental Science, 15(6), 885–894.

Mersad, K., & Nazzi, T. (2012). When Mommy comes to the rescue of statistics: Infants combine top-down and bottom-up cues to segment speech. Language Learning & Development, 8, 303-315.

Nazzi, T., Goyet, L., Sundara, M., & Polka, L. (2012). Différences linguistiques et dialectales dans la mise en place des procédures de segmentation de la parole. Enfance, 64(2), 127-146.

Tsuji, S., Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Medina, V., Nazzi, T., & Mazuka, R. (2012). The labial-coronal effect revisited: Japanese adults say pata, but hear tapa. Cognition, 125, 413-428.

Bertoncini, J., Nazzi, T., Cabrera, L., & Lorenzi, C. (2011). Six-month-old infants discriminate voicing on the basis of temporal envelope cues. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129(5), 2761–2764.

Floccia, C., Nazzi, T., Austin, K., Arreckx, F., & Goslin, J. (2011). Lexical stress and phonetic processing in word learning in 20-to-24-month-old English-learning children. Developmental Science, 14(3), 602–613.

Havy, M., Bertoncini, J., & Nazzi, T. (2011). Word learning and phonetic processing in preschool age children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108, 25–43.

Johnson, E.K., Westrek, E., Nazzi, T., & Cutler, A. (2011). Infant ability to tell voices apart rests on language experience. Developmental Science, 14(5), 1002-1011.

Mersad, K., & Nazzi, T. (2011). Transitional probabilities and positional frequency phonotactics in a hierarchical model of speech segmentation. Memory and Cognition, 39(6), 1085-1093.

Nazzi, T., Barrière, I., Goyet, L., Kresh, S., & Legendre, G. (2011). Tracking irregular morphophonological dependencies in natural language: Evidence from the acquisition of subject-verb agreement in French. Cognition, 120, 119–135.

Mersad, K., Goyet, L., & Nazzi, T. (2010/2011). Cross-linguistic differences in early word form segmentation: a rhythmic-based account. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 9/10, 37-65.

Goyet, L., de Schonen, S., & Nazzi, T. (2010). Words and syllables in fluent speech segmentation by French-learning infants: an ERP study. Brain Research, 1332, 75-89.

Havy, M., Moukawane, S., & Nazzi, T. (2010). Are 3-to-8 year old children with Williams Syndrome good word-learners? Neuroreport: For Rapid Communication of Neuroscience Research, 21(13), 882-886.

Legendre, G., Barriere, I., Goyet, L., & Nazzi, T. (2010). Comprehension of infrequent subject-verb agreement forms: Evidence from French-learning children. Child Development, 81(6), 1859–1875.

Bijeljac-Babic, R., Nassurally, K., Havy, M., & Nazzi, T. (2009). Infants can rapidly learn words in a foreign language. Infant Behavior and Development, 32, 476-480.

Havy, M., & Nazzi, T. (2009). Better processing of consonantal over vocalic information in word learning at 16 months of age. Infancy, 14(4), 439-456.

Höhle, B., Bijeljac-Babic, R., Herold, B., Weissenborn, J., & Nazzi, T. (2009). The development of language specific prosodic preferences during the first half year of life: evidence from German and French. Infant Behavior and Development, 32, 262-274.

Nazzi, T., & Bertoncini, J. (2009). Phonetic specificity in early lexical acquisition: New evidence from consonants in coda positions. Language and Speech, 52, 463–480.

Nazzi, T., Bertoncini, J., & Bijeljac-Babic, R. (2009). A perceptual equivalent of the labial-coronal effect in the first year of life. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126, 1440-1446.

Nazzi, T., Floccia, C., Moquet, B., & Butler, J. (2009). Bias for consonantal over vocalic information in French- and English-learning 30-month-olds: crosslinguistic evidence in early word learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102, 522–537.

Nazzi, T. (2008). Segmentation précoce de la parole continue en mots : évaluation inter-linguistique de l’hypothèse d’initialisation rythmique. L'Année Psychologique, 108, 309-342.

New, B., Araujo, V., & Nazzi, T. (2008). Differential processing of consonants and vowels in lexical access through reading. Psychological Science, 19, 1223-1227.

Nazzi, T., & New, B. (2007). Beyond stop consonants: consonantal specificity in early lexical acquisition. Cognitive Development, 22, 271-279.

Nazzi, T., & Pilardeau, M. (2007). Learning the names of objects is not enough to support name-based categorization at 16 months. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 4, 435-450.

Nazzi, T. (2006). Spécificité phonétique: de la perception précoce à l’acquisition des premiers mots. Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes, 35, 31-52.

Nazzi, T., Iakimova, G., Bertoncini, J., Fredonie, S., & Alcantara, C. (2006). Early segmentation of fluent speech by infants acquiring French: Emerging evidence for crosslinguistic differences. Journal of Memory and Language, 54(3), 283-299.

Nazzi, T., Dilley, L.C., Jusczyk, A.M., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., & Jusczyk, P.W. (2005). English-learning infants' segmentation of verbs from fluent speech. Language and Speech, 48(3), 279-298.

Nazzi, T., Gopnik, A., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2005). Asynchrony in the cognitive and lexical development of young children with Williams syndrome. Journal of Child Language, 32(2), 427-438.

Nazzi, T. (2005). Use of phonetic specificity during the acquisition of new words: Differences between consonants and vowels. Cognition, 98(1), 13-30.

Nazzi, T., & Bertoncini, J. (2003). Before and after the vocabulary spurt: Two modes of word acquisition? Developmental Science, 6(2), 136-142.

Nazzi, T., & Gopnik, A. (2003). Sorting and acting with objects in early childhood: An exploration of the use of causal cues. Cognitive Development, 18(3), 299-317.

Nazzi, T., & Ramus, F. (2003). Perception and acquisition of linguistic rhythm by infants. Speech Communication, 41(1), 233-243.

Nazzi, T., Paterson, S., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2003). Early word segmentation by infants and toddlers with Williams syndrome. Infancy, 4(2), 251-271.

Nazzi, T., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2002). Early categorization abilities in young children with Williams syndrome. Neuroreport: For Rapid Communication of Neuroscience Research, 13(10), 1259-1262.

Nazzi, T., & Gopnik, A. (2001). Linguistic and cognitive abilities in infancy: When does language become a tool for categorization? Cognition, 80(3), B22-B20.

Floccia, C., Nazzi, T., & Bertoncini, J. (2000). Unfamiliar voice discrimination for short stimuli in newborns. Developmental Science, 3(3), 333-343.

Nazzi, T., & Gopnik, A. (2000). A shift in children's use of perceptual and causal cues to categorization. Developmental Science, 3(4), 389-396.

Nazzi, T., Jusczyk, P.W., & Johnson, E.K. (2000). Language discrimination by English-learning 5-month-olds: Effects of rhythm and familiarity. Journal of Memory and Language, 43(1), 1-19.

Nazzi, T., Kemler-Nelson., D.G., Jusczyk, P.W., & Jusczyk, A.M. (2000). Six-month-olds' detection of clauses embedded in continuous speech: Effects of prosodic well-formedness. Infancy, 1(1), 123-147.

Nazzi, T., Bertoncini, J., & Mehler, J. (1998). Language discrimination by newborns: Toward an understanding of the role of rhythm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24(3), 756-766.

Nazzi, T., Floccia, C., & Bertoncini, J. (1998). Discrimination of pitch contours by neonates. Infant Behavior and Development, 21(4), 779-784.

Bertoncini, J., Floccia, C., Nazzi, T., & Mehler, J. (1995). Morae and syllables: Rhythmical basis of speech representations in neonates. Language and Speech, 38(4), 311-329.

Book chapter

Gonzalez-Gomez, N., & Nazzi, T. (2012). Phonological Feature Constraints on the Acquisition of Phonological Dependencies. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. (pp. in press). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Goyet, L., Millotte, S., Christophe, A., & Nazzi, T. (2012). Processing continuous speech in infancy: From major prosodic units to isolated word forms. In J. Lidz, J. Pater and W. Snyder (Eds) Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics. (pp. in press). Oxford University Press.

Legendre, G., Culbertson, J., Barrière, I., Nazzi, T., & Goyet, L. (2012). Experimental and empirical evidence for the status and acquisition of subject clitics and agreement marking in adult and child Spoken French. In V. Torrens, L. Escobar, A. Gavarro and J.G. Mangado (Eds) Movement and Clitics. (pp. in press). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Barrière, I., Goyet, L., Nazzi, T., Kresh, S., & Legendre, G. (2011). The representation of subject-verb agreement in French-learning toddlers: New evidence from the comprehension of an infrequent pattern of pseudoverbs. In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. (pp. 38-48). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Legendre, G., Barrière, I., Goyet, L., & Nazzi, T. (2011). On the Acquisition of Implicated Presuppositions: Evidence from French Personal Pronouns. In Mihaela Pirvulescu, et al. (Eds) Selected Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2010). (pp. 150-162). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Nazzi, T., & Gonzalez-Gomez, N. (2011). Sensitivity to non-adjacent phonological dependencies in 10-month-old infants. In Proceedings of ICPhS XVII. (pp. 1454-1457).

Barrière, I., Legendre, G., Nazzi, T., Goyet, L., & Kresh, S. (2010). L’acquisition de l’accord sujet-verbe par les jeunes francophones natifs entre 14 et 30 mois : préférence, compréhension et environnement linguistique. In Neveu F., Muni Toke V., Durand J., Klingler T., Mondada L., Prévost S. (Eds) Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress of French Linguistics. (pp. 1429-1443).

Legendre, G., Goyet, L., Barrière, I., Kresh, S., & Nazzi, T. (2010). Sensitivity to irregular French subject-verb agreement at 18 months: Evidence from the Head Turn Preference procedure. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. (pp. 257-268). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Song, L., Nazzi, T., Moukawane, S., Golinkoff, R.M., Stahl, A., Ma, W., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Connell, M. (2010). Sleepy vs. sleeping: Preeschoolers’ sensitivity to morphological cues for adjectives and verbs in English and French. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. (pp. 409-420). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Højen, A., & Nazzi, T. (2009). Detailed vocalic information in Danish 20-month-olds' novel words. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Speech and Language. (pp. 121-125). Belgrade:

Nazzi, T., Iakimova, G., Bertoncini, J., Mottet, S., Serres, J., & de Schonen, S. (2008). Behavioral and electrophysiological exploration of early word segmentation in French : Distinguishing the syllabic and lexical levels. In A. D.Friederici,& G. Thierry (Eds) Early Language Development, Trends in Language Acquisition Research. (Vol. 5, pp. 65-90). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Legendre, G., Nazzi, T., Barrière, I., Culbertson, J., Lopez-Gonzalez, M., Goyet, L., & Zaroukian, E. (2007). Acquiring Subject-verb Agreement in French: Evidence for Abstract Knowledge from Comprehension. In 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. (pp. 370-381). Boston:

Nazzi, T., & Houston, D.M. (2006). Finding verb forms within the continuous speech stream. In K. Hirsh-Pasek, & R. Michnick-Golinkoff (Eds) Action meets words: How children learn verbs. (pp. 64-87). New York: Oxford University Press.

Bertoncini, J., & Nazzi, T. (2004). Développement précoce de la perception de la parole. In R. Lécuyer (Ed) Le développement du nourrisson. Paris: Dunod.

Gopnik, A., & Nazzi, T. (2003). Words, kinds, and causal powers: A theory perspective on early naming and categorization. In D.H.Rakison, & L.M. Oakes (Eds) Early category and concept development: Making sense of the blooming, buzzing confusion. (pp. 303-329). New York, NY, US: Oxford University Press.

Mehler, J., Dupoux, E., Nazzi, T., & Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (1996). Coping with linguistic diversity: The infant's viewpoint. In J.L.Morgan,& K. Demuth (Eds) Signal to syntax: Bootstrapping from speech to grammar in early acquisition. (pp. 101-116). Hillsdale, NJ, England: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.