in press

Bergmann, C., Paulus, M., & Fikkert, P. (in press). Preschoolers’ comprehension of pronouns and reflexives: The impact of the task. Journal of Child Language.

Paulus, M., & Hauf, P. (in press). Reaching preferences in 11-month-old infants: The role of objects’ material and weight. International Journal of Developmental Science.

Fawcett, C., & Liszkowski, U. (in press). Infants anticipate others’ social preferences. Infant and Child Development.

Fawcett, C., & Liszkowski, U. (in press). Observation and initiation of joint action in infants. Child Development.

Hauf, P., & Paulus, M. (in press). Experience matters: 11-month-old infants can learn to use material information to predict the weight of novel objects. Infant Behavior and Development.

Knudsen, B. & Liszkowski, U. (in press). 18-month-olds predict specific action mistakes through attribution of false belief, not ignorance, and intervene accordingly. Infancy.

Liszkowski, U., Brown, P., Callaghan, T., Takada, A., & De Vos, C. (in press). A prelinguistic gestural  universal of human communication. Cognitive Science.

Meyer, M., Hunnius, S., van Elk, M., van Ede, F., & Bekkering, H. (in press). Joint action modulates motor system involvement during action observation in 3-year-olds. Experimental Brain Research. [abstract]

Paulus, M. (in press). How infants relate looker and object: Evidence for a perceptual learning account on gaze following in infancy. Developmental Science.

Paulus, M., & Moore, C. (in press). Whom to ask for help? Children’s developing understanding of other people’s action capabilities. Experimental Brain Research.

Paulus, M., Hunnius, S., Vissers, M., & Bekkering, H. (in press). Bridging the gap between the other and me: The functional role of motor resonance and action effects in infants' imitation. Developmental Science. [abstract]

Paulus, M., Hunnius, S., van Elk, M., & Bekkering, H. (in press). How learning to shake a rattle affects 8-month-old infants' perception of the rattle's sound: Electrophysiological evidence for action-effect binding in infancy. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

Paulus, M., Hunnius, S., Vissers, M., & Bekkering, H. (in press). Imitation in infancy: Rational or motor resonance? Child Development. [abstract]

Paulus, M., Hunnius, S., van Wijngaarden, C., Vrins, S., van Rooij, I., & Bekkering, H. (in press). The role of frequency information and teleological reasoning in infants' and adults' action prediction. Developmental Psychology. [abstract]

Vrins, S., Hunnius, S., & van Lier, R. (in press). Volume completion in 4.5-month-old infants. Acta Psychologica.

2011

Behne, T., Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Twelve-month-olds’ comprehension and production of pointing. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.

Callaghan, T., Moll, H., Rakoczy, H., Behne, T., Liszkowski, U., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Early social cognition in three cultural contexts. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.

Dijkstra, N. & Fikkert, P. Universal constraints on the discrimination of Place of Articulation? Asymmetries in the discrimination of 'paan' and 'taan' by 6-month-old Dutch infants. Proceedings of the 35th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, USA. 

Hunnius, S., de Wit, T.C.J., Vrins, S., & von Hofsten, C. (2011). Facing threat: Infants' and adults' visual scanning of faces with neutral, happy, sad, angry, and fearful emotional expressions. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 193-205.  [abstract]

Knudsen, B., & Liszkowski, U. (2011). Eighteen- and 24-month-old infants correct others in anticipation of action mistakes. Developmental Science.

Liszkowski, U. (2011). Three lines in the emergence of prelinguistic communication and social cognition. Journal of cognitive education and psychology, 10(1), 32-43.

Liszkowski, U., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Individual differences in social, cognitive, and morphological aspects of infant pointing. Cognitive Development, 26, 16-29.

Paulus, M., Hunnius, S., & Bekkering, H. (2011). Can 14- to 20-month-old children learn that a tool serves multiple purposes? A developmental study on children's action goal prediction. Vision Research.  [abstract]

2010

Alvater-Mackensen, N. (2010). Do manners matter? Asymmetries in the acquisition of manner of articulation features. PhD Thesis. Radboud University Nijmegen.

Altvater-Mackensen, N. & P. Fikkert (2010). ‘The acquisition of the stop-fricative contrast in perception and production’. Lingua 120: 1898–1909.

van Elk, M. & Hunnius, S. (October 2010). Het babybrein: over de ontwikkeling van de hersenen bij baby's. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker. (click here )

Fikkert, P. (2010). ‘Developing representations and the emergence of phonology: evidence from perception and production’. In: Fougeron, Kühnert, d’Imperio, Vallée (Eds.), Laboratory Phonology 10: Variation, Phonetic Detail and Phonological Representation (Phonology & Phonetics 4-4). Pp. 227–258.

Hunnius, S., & Bekkering, H. (2010). The early development of object knowledge: A study on infants' visual anticipations during action observation. Developmental Psychology, 46, 446-454.  [abstract]  [pdf]

Liszkowski, U. (2010). Before L1: A differentiated perspective on infant gestures. In M. Gullberg, & K. De Bot (Eds.), Gestures in language development (pp. 35-51). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Liszkowski, U. (2010). Deictic and other gestures in infancy. Acción psicológica, 7(2), 21-33.

Meyer, M., Bekkering, H., Paulus, M., & Hunnius, S. (2010). Joint action coordination in 2½- and 3-year-old children. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4, 220.  [abstract]

Puccini, D., Hassemer, M., Salomo, D., & Liszkowski, U. (2010). The type of shared activity shapes caregiver and infant communication. Gesture, 10(2/3), 279-297.

Stapel, J.C., Hunnius, S., van Elk, M., & Bekkering, H. (2010). Motor activation during observation of unusual versus ordinary actions in infancy. Social Neuroscience, 5, 451-460.  [abstract]

2009

Paula Fikkert & Helen de Hoop (2009). 'Language acquisition in optimality theory'. Journal of Linguistics 47 (2): 311–358.

Hunnius, S., Bekkering, H., & Cillessen, A.H.N. (2009). The association between intention understanding and peer cooperation in toddlers. European Journal of Developmental Science, 3, 368-388. 

Liszkowski, U., Schäfer, M., Carpenter, M., Tomasello, M. (2009). Prelinguistic infants, but not chimpanzees, communicate about absent entities. Psychological Science, 20, 654-660.

Swingley, D. (2009). ‘Onsets and codas in 1.5-year-olds' word recognition'. Journal of Memory and Language. 

2008

Bree, Elise de, Petra van Alphen, Paula Fikkert, and Frank Wijnen (2008). ‘Metrical stress in comprehension and production of Dutch children at risk of dyslexia’. In: Harvey Chan, Heather Jacob, and Enkeleida Kapia (Eds.), BUCLD 32: Proceedings of the 32nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. 60-71.

van Elk, M., van Schie, H.T., Hunnius, S., Vesper, C. & Bekkering, H. (2008). You'll never crawl alone: Neurophysiological evidence for experience-dependent motor resonance in infancy. Neuroimage.

Fikkert, P. (2008). Kijk op klank. Inaugurele rede gehouden op 18 april 2008.  (click here)
 

Fikkert, Paula & Clara Levelt (2008). ‘How does Place fall into place? The lexicon and emergent constraints in children's developing phonological grammar’. In: Peter Avery, B. Elan Dresher & Keren Rice (eds.), Contrast in phonology. Theory, perception, acquisition. Berlin: Mouton. 231-268.

Kooijman, V., Johnson, E.K. & Cutler, A. (2008). Reflections on reflections of infant word recognition. In A.D. Friederici & G. Thierry (Eds.) Early Language Development: Bridging Brain and Behavior. Amsterdam: John Benjamins; 91-114.

Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M., Tomasello, M. (2008). Twelve-month-olds communicate helpfully and appropriately for knowledgeable and ignorant partners. Cognition, 108(3), 732-739. (click here) (see 'lab in the news')

Swingley, D. (2008). ‘The roots of the early vocabulary in infants' learning from speech'. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 308-312.

De Wit, T.C.J., Vrins, S., Dejonckheere, P., & Van Lier, R. (2008). Form perception of partly occluded shapes in 4-month-old infants. Infancy, 13, 660-674.

2007

Dietrich, C., Swingley, D., & Werker, J.F. (2007). ‘Native language governs interpretation of salient speech sound differences at 18 months'. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S. (PNAS), 104(41), 16027-16031.

Van der Feest, S. (2007). Building a Phonological Lexicon. The acquisition of the Dutch voicing contrast in perception and production. Ph.D. Dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen. Utrecht: Prince Productions B.V. (click here)

Van der Feest, S.V.H. (2007). Building a phonological lexicon. Doctoral Dissertation, Radboud University of Nijmegen.

Fikkert, P. Acquiring phonology. In: Paul de Lacy (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology, Cambridge University Press. Pp. 537–554.

Kager, R., Feest, S. van der, Fikkert, P., Kerkhoff, A., & Zamuner, T. S. (2007). ‘Representations of [voice]: Evidence from acquisition'. In J. van de Weijer & E.J. van der Torre (Eds.), Voicing in Dutch. Benjamins. 

Kooijman, V. (2007). Continuous-speech segmentation at the beginning of language acquisition: Electrophysiological evidence. PhD Thesis, MPI, Nijmegen. 

Snijders, T., Kooijman, V., Cutler, A. & Hagoort, P. (2007). Neurophysiological evidence of delayed segmentation in a foreign anguage. Brain Research, 1178, 106-113.

Swingley, D. (2007). ‘Lexical exposure and word-form encoding in 1.5-year-olds'. Developmental Psychology, 43, 454-464.

Swingley, D., & Aslin, R.N. (2007). ‘Lexical competition in young children's word learning'. Cognitive Psychology, 54, 99-132.

2006

Dietrich, C. (2006). The acquisition of phonological structure: Distinguishing contrastive from non-contrastive variation. PhD Thesis, MPI, Nijmegen. 

Johnson, E.K. (2006). ‘Grammatical gender and early word recognition in Dutch'. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Zamuner, T.S. (2006). Sensitivity to word-final phonotactics in 9- to 16-month-old infants. Infancy, 10, 77-95.

Zamuner, T.S., A. Kerkhoff & P. Fikkert (2006). ‘Acquisition of voicing neutralization and alternations in Dutch'. Proceedings of the 30th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Vol. 2. Cascadilla Press. 701-712.  

2005

Johnson, E.K. (2005). ‘English-learning infants' representations of word-forms with iambic stress'. Infancy, 7, 95-105.

Kooijman, V., Hagoort, P. & Cutler, A. (2005). Electrophysiological evidence for prelinguistic infants' word recognition in continuous speech. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 109-116.

Swingley, D. (2005). ‘11-month-olds' knowledge of how familiar words sound'. Developmental Science, 8, 432-443. 

Swingley, D. (2005). ‘Statistical clustering and the contents of the infant vocabulary'. Cognitive Psychology, 50, 86-132.

2003

Johnson, E.K. (2003). ‘Speaker intent influences infants' segmentation of potentially ambiguous utterances'. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). 1995-1998.

Johnson, E.K., Jusczyk, P.W., Cutler, A., and Norris, D. (2003). ‘Lexical viability constraints on speech segmentation by infants without a lexicon'. Cognitive Psychology, 46: 65-97.

Seidl, A. & Johnson, E.K. (2003). ‘Position and vowel quality effects in infant's segmentation of vowel-initial words'. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). pp. 2233-2236.

Swingley, D. (2003). ‘Phonetic detail in the developing lexicon'. Language and Speech, 46, 265-294.

2002 

Johnson, E.K. & Jusczyk, P.W. (2002). ‘Finding words in fluent speech: How infants cope with different types of word segmentation cues'. In Lasser, Ingeborg (ed.), In The Process of Language Acquisition. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang Publishing.

2001

Johnson, E.K., van de Weijer, J., and Jusczyk, P.W. (2001). ‘Word segmentation by 7.5-month-olds: Three words do not equal one'. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Volume 2: 389-400. 

2000

Houston, D.M., Jusczyk, P.W., Kuijpers, C., Coolen, R., & Cutler, A.M. (2000). Cross-language word segmentation by 9-month-olds. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 7, 504-509.

Swingley, D. & R.N. Aslin (2000). Spoken word recognition and lexical representation in very young children. Cognition, 76, 147-166.