All publications - Anne Christophe

Barbir, M., Babineau, M., Fiévet, A. & Christophe, A. (2023). Rapid infant learning of syntactic-semantic links. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(1), e2209153119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2209153119

Havron, N., de Carvalho, A., Babineau, M., Barbir, M., Dautriche, I. & Christophe, A. (2023). There might be more to syntactic bootstrapping than being pragmatic: A look at grammatical person and prosody in naturalistic child-directed speech. Journal of child language, 1-5. doi:10.1017/S0305000923000181

Babineau, M. & Christophe, A. (2022). Preverbal infants' sensitivity to grammatical dependencies. . doi:10.1111/infa.12466

de Carvalho, A., He, A., Lidz, J. & Christophe, A. (2021). Prosody and Function Words Cue the Acquisition of Word Meanings in 18-Month-Old Infants. Psychological science, 30, 319-332. doi:10.1177/0956797618814131

de Carvalho, A., Dautriche, I., Fiévet, A. & Christophe, A. (2021). Toddlers exploit referential and syntactic cues to flexibly adapt their interpretation of novel verb meanings. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 203(105017). doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105017

de Carvalho, A., Crimon, C., Barrault, A. , Trueswell, J. & Christophe, A. (2021). “Look! It is not a bamoule!” 18‐ and 24‐month‐olds can use negative sentences to constrain their interpretation of novel word meanings. Developmental Science, 24(1), e13085. doi:10.1111/desc.13085

Havron, N., Scaff, C., Carbajal, J., Linzen, T., Barrault, A. & Christophe, A. (2021). Priming syntactic ambiguity resolution in children and adults. Language Cognition and Neuroscience, 35, 1445, 1445-1455. doi:10.1080/23273798.2020.1797130

Havron, N., Babineau, M. & Christophe, A. (2021). 18-month-olds fail to use recent experience to infer the syntactic category of novel words. Developmental Science, 24 (2), e1330. doi:10.1111/desc.13030

Kolberg, L. , de Carvalho, A., Babineau, M., Havron, N., Fiévet, A., Abaurre, B. & Christophe, A. (2021). "The tiger is hitting! the duck too!" 3-year-olds can use prosodic information to constrain their interpretation of ellipsis. Cognition, 104626. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104626

Babineau, M., de Carvalho, A., Trueswell, J. & Christophe, A. (2020). Familiar words can serve as a semantic seed for syntactic bootstrapping. Developmental Science. doi:10.1111/desc.13010

Babineau, M., Shi, R. & Christophe, A. (2020). 14‐month‐olds exploit verbs’ syntactic contexts to build expectations about novel words. Infancy. doi:10.1111/infa.12354

Beretti, M. , Havron, N. & Christophe, A. (2020). Four- and 5-year-old children adapt to the reliability of conflicting sources of information to learn novel words. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 200, 104927. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104927

de Carvalho, A., Babineau, M., Trueswell, J. , R. Waxman, S. & Christophe, A. (2019). Studying the real-time interpretation of novel noun and verb meanings in young children. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 274. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00274

Havron, N., de Carvalho, A., Fiévet, A. & Christophe, A. (2019). Three- to Four-Year-Old Children Rapidly Adapt Their Predictions and Use Them to Learn Novel Word Meanings. Child development, 90(1), 82-90. doi:10.1111/cdev.13113

Dautriche, I., Fibla, L., Fiévet, A. & Christophe, A. (2018). Learning homophones in context: Easy cases are favored in the lexicon of natural languages. Cognitive Psychology, 104, 83-105

Brusini, P., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Van Heugten, M., de Carvalho, A., Goffinet, F., Fiévet, A. & Christophe, A. (2017). Ambiguous function words do not prevent 18-month-olds from building accurate syntactic category expectations: An ERP study. Neuropsychologia, 98, 4-12. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.08.015

Dautriche, I., Mahowald, K., Gibson, E., Christophe, A. & Piantadosi, S. (2017). Words cluster phonetically beyond phonotactic regularities. Cognition, 163, 128-145. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2017.02.001

de Carvalho, A., Dautriche, I., Lin, I. & Christophe, A. (2017). Phrasal prosody constrains syntactic analysis in toddlers. Cognition, 163, 67-79. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2017.02.018

Brusini, P., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Dutat, M., Goffinet, F. & Christophe, A. (2016). ERP evidence for on-line syntactic computations in 2-year-olds. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 19, 164-73. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2016.02.009

Dautriche, I., Chemla, E. & Christophe, A. (2016). Word Learning: Homophony and the Distribution of Learning Exemplars. Language Learning and Development, 12(3), 231-251. doi:10.1080/15475441.2015.1127163

de Carvalho, A., Lidz, J., Tieu, L., Bleam, T. & Christophe, A. (2016). English-speaking preschoolers can use phrasal prosody for syntactic parsing. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139(6), EL216. doi:10.1121/1.4954385

de Carvalho, A., Dautriche, I. & Christophe, A. (2016). Preschoolers use phrasal prosody online to constrain syntactic analysis. Developmental science, 19(2), 235-50. doi:10.1111/desc.12300

Brusini, P., Brun, M., Brunet, I. & Christophe, A. (2015). Listeners Exploit Syntactic Structure On-Line to Restrict Their Lexical Search to a Subclass of Verbs. Frontiers in psychology, 6, 1841. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01841

Dautriche, I., Swingley, D. & Christophe, A. (2015). Learning novel phonological neighbors: Syntactic category matters. Cognition, 143, 77-86. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2015.06.003

Gutman, A., Dautriche, I., Crabbe, B. & Christophe, A. (2015). Bootstrapping the Syntactic Bootstrapper: Probabilistic Labeling of Prosodic Phrases. Language Acquisition, 22(3), 285-309. doi:10.1080/10489223.2014.971956

Van Heugten, M. & Christophe, A. (2015). Infants' Acquisition of Grammatical Gender Dependencies. Infancy, 20(6), 675-683. doi:10.1111/infa.12094

Cauvet, E., Limissuri, R., Millotte, S., Skoruppa, K., Cabrol, D. & Christophe, A. (2014). Function words constrain on-line recognition of verbs and nouns in French 18-month-olds. Language Learning & Development, 10, 1-18

Dautriche, I., Cristia, A., Brusini, P., Yuan, S., Fisher, C. & Christophe, A. (2014). Toddlers default to canonical surface-to-meaning mapping when learning verbs. Child Development, 85(3), 1168-1180. doi:10.1111/cdev.12164

Roux, P., Vistoli, D., Christophe, A., Passerieux, C. & Brunet-Gouet, E. (2014). ERP Evidence of a Stroop-Like Effect in Emotional Speech Related to Social Anhedonia. Journal of Psychophysiology, 28(1), 11-21. doi:10.1027/0269-8803/a000106

Kouider, S., Stahlhut, C., Gelskov, S., Barbosa, L., Dutat, M., de Gardelle, V., Christophe, A., Dehaene, S. & Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (2013). A neural marker of perceptual consciousness in infants. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6130), 376-80. doi:10.1126/science.1232509

Skoruppa, K., Pons, F., Bosch, L., Christophe, A., Cabrol, D. & Peperkamp, S. (2013). The development of word stress processing in French and Spanish infants. Language Learning and Development, 9, 88-104

Hannagan, T., Dupoux, E. & Christophe, A. (2011). Holographic String Encoding. Cognitive Science, 35(1), 79-118. doi:10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01149.x

Mazuka, R., Cao, Y., Dupoux, E. & Christophe, A. (2011 ). The development of a phonological illusion: a cross-linguistic study with Japanese and French infants. Developmental science, 14(4), 693-9. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.01015.x

Bernal, S., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Millotte, S. & Christophe, A. (2010). Two-year-olds compute syntactic structure on-line. Developmental science, 13(1), 69-76. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00865.x

Millotte, S., Morgan, J., Margules, S., Bernal, S., Dutat, M. & Christophe, A. (2010). Phrasal prosody constrains word segmentation in French 16-month-olds. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 9, 67-86

Parlato-Oliveira, E., Christophe, A., Hirose, Y. & Dupoux, E. (2010). Plasticity of illusory vowel perception in Brazilian-Japanese bilinguals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 127(6), 3738-3748. doi:10.1121/1.3327792

Roux, P., Christophe, A. & Passerieux, C. (2010). The emotional paradox Dissociation between explicit and implicit processing of emotional prosody in schizophrenia. Neuropsychologia, 48(12), 3642-3649. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.08.021

Chemla, E., Mintz, T., Bernal, S. & Christophe, A. (2009). Categorizing words using 'frequent frames': what cross-linguistic analyses reveal about distributional acquisition strategies. Developmental science, 12(3), 396-406. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00825.x

Mampe, B., Friederici, A., Christophe, A. & Wermke, K. (2009). Newborns' cry melody is shaped by their native language. Current biology : CB, 19(23), 1994-7. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.09.064

Skoruppa, K., Pons, F., Christophe, A., Bosch, L., Dupoux, E., Sebastián-Gallés, N., Limissuri, R. & Peperkamp, S. (2009). Language-specific stress perception by 9-month-old French and Spanish infants. Developmental Science, 12(6), 914-919. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00835.x

Christophe, A., Millotte, S., Bernal, S. & Lidz, J. (2008). Bootstrapping lexical and syntactic acquisition. Language and speech, 51(Pt 1-2), 61-75. doi:10.1177/00238309080510010501

Millotte, S., René, A., Wales, R. & Christophe, A. (2008). Phonological phrase boundaries constrain the online syntactic analysis of spoken sentences. Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, 34(4), 874-85. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.34.4.874

Bernal, S., Lidz, J., Millotte, S. & Christophe, A. (2007). Syntax constrains the acquisition of verb meaning. Language Learning and Development, 3, 325-341

Friederici, A., Friedrich, M. & Christophe, A. (2007). Brain responses in 4-month-old infants are already language specific. Current biology : CB, 17(14), 1208-11. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.011

Millotte, S., Wales, R. & Christophe, A. (2007). Phrasal prosody disambiguates syntax. Language and Cognitive Processes, 22(6), 898-909. doi:10.1080/01690960701205286

Christophe, A., Peperkamp, S., Pallier, C., Block, E. & Mehler, J. (2004). Phonological phrase boundaries constrain lexical access I. Adult data. Journal of Memory and Language, 51(4), 523-547. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2004.07.001

Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Pena, M., Christophe, A. & Landrieu, P. (2004). Phoneme perception in a neonate with a left sylvian infarct. Brain and Language, 88(1), 26-38. doi:10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00284-0

Gout, A., Christophe, A. & Morgan, J. (2004). Phonological phrase boundaries constrain lexical access II. Infant data. Journal of Memory and Language, 51(4), 548-567. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2004.07.002

Christophe, A., Gout, A., Peperkamp, S. & Morgan, J. (2003). Discovering words in the continuous speech stream: the role of prosody. Journal of Phonetics, 31, 585-598. doi:10.1016/S0095-4470(03)00040-8

Christophe, A., Nespor, M., Guasti, M. & van Ooyen, B. (2003). Prosodic structure and syntactic acquisition: the case of the head-direction parameter. Developmental Science, 6(2), 211-220. doi:10.1111/1467-7687.00273

Gout, A., Christophe, A. & Dupoux, E. (2002 ). Testing Infants' Discrimination With the Orientation Latency Procedure. Infancy, 3(2), 249-259. doi:10.1207/S15327078IN0302_8

Christophe, A., Mehler, J. & Sebastián-Gallés, N. (2001). Perception of prosodic boundary correlates by newborn infants. Infancy, 2(3), 385-394. doi:10.1207/S15327078IN0203_6

Christophe, A. & Morton, J. (1998). Is Dutch native English? Linguistic analysis by 2-month-olds. Developmental Science, 1(2), 215-219. doi:10.1111/1467-7687.00033

Pallier, C., Sebastián-Gallés, N., Dupoux, E., Christophe, A. & Mehler, J. (1998 ). Perceptual adjustment to time-compressed speech: A cross-linguistic study. Memory & Cognition, 26(4), 844-851

Christophe, A., Guasti, T., Nespor, M., Dupoux, E. & van Ooyen, B. (1997 ). Reflections on phonological bootstrapping: Its role for lexical and syntactic acquisition. Language and Cognitive Processes, 12(5-6), 585-612

Floccia, C., Christophe, A. & Bertoncini, J. (1997). High-amplitude sucking and newborns: The quest for underlying mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 64(2), 175-198. doi:10.1006/jecp.1996.2349

Hesketh, S., Christophe, A. & Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (1997). Non-nutritive sucking and sentence processing. Infant Behavior & Development, 20(2), 263-269. doi:10.1016/S0163-6383(97)90028-X

Pallier, C., Christophe, A. & Mehler, J. (1997). Language-specific listening. Trends in Cognitive Science, 1(4), 129-132. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(97)01044-9

Christophe, A. & Dupoux, E. (1996 ). Bootstrapping lexical acquisition: The role of prosodic structure. Linguistic Review, 13(3-4), 383-412

Grant, J., Karmiloffsmith, A., Berthoud, I. & Christophe, A. (1996). Is the language of people with Williams Syndrome mere mimicry? Verbal short-term memory in a foreign language. Current Psychology of Cognition, 5, 615-628

Christophe, A., Dupoux, E., Bertoncini, J. & Mehler, J. (1994). Do infants perceive word boundaries? An empirical study of the bootstrapping of lexical acquisition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 95(3), 1570-1580. doi:10.1121/1.408544

Christophe, A. & Morton, J. (1994). Psychology - Comprehending Baby-Think. Nature, 370(6487), 250-251. doi:10.1038/370250a0

Mehler, J. & Christophe, A. (1994). Language in the infant's mind. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 346(1315), 13-20. doi:10.1098/rstb.1994.0123

Mehler, J., Sebastián-Gallés, N., Altmann, G., Dupoux, E., Christophe, A. & Pallier, C. (1993 ). Understanding compressed sentences - The role of rhythm and meaning. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 682, 272-282

Pallier, C., Sebastián-Gallés, N., Felguera, T., Christophe, A. & Mehler, J. (1993). Attentional allocation within the syllabic structure of spoken words. JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE, 32(3), 373-389. doi:10.1006/jmla.1993.1020

Johnson, M., Christophe, A. & Dupoux, E. (2014 ). Modelling function words improves unsupervised word segmentation. In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual meeting of the ACL, 282–292. doi:10.3115/v1/P14-1027

Havron, N., Babineau, M., Fiévet, A., de Carvalho, A. & Christophe, A. (2019). Young Children Build Syntactic Predictions During Language Processing and Use Them to Learn Novel-Word Meanings. In The 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.

Ramus, F., Peperkamp, S., Christophe, A., Jacquemot, C., Kouider, S. & Dupoux, E. (2010). A Psycholinguistic Perspective on the Acquisition of Phonology. In C. Fougeron (Eds.), Laboratory Phonology (Vol. 10 ).De Gruyter Mouton