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Publications: Language Acquisition

2024

Piot, L., Nazzi, T., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2024). Infants' sensitivity to phonotactic regularities related to perceptually low-salient fricatives: A cross-linguistic study. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1367240

Götz, A., Krasotkina, A., Schwarzer, G., & Höhle, B. (2024). Asymmetries in infants’ vowel perception: Changes in vowel discrimination in German learning 6- and 9-month-old infants. Language and Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309241228237

Vanoncini, M., Höhl, S., Elsner, B., Wallot, S., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Kayhan, E. (2024). Mother-infant social gaze dynamics relate to infant brain activity and word segmentation. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 65, 101331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101331

2023

Kalashnikova, M., Singh, L., Tsui, A., Altuntas, E., Burnham, D., Cannistraci, R., Chin, N. B., Feng, Y., Fernández-Merino, L., Götz, A., Gustavsson, L., Hay, J., Höhle, B., Kager, R., Lai, R., Liu, L., Marklund, E., Nazzi, T., Oliveira, D. S., ... Woo, P. J. (2023). The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross-linguistic, multi-lab report. Developmental Science, e13459. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13459

Aravena-Bravo, P., Cristia, A., Garcia, R., Kotera, H., Kunene Nicolas, R., Laranjo, R., Arokoyo, B., Benavides, S., Benders, T., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Cychosz, M., Dal Ben, R., Diop, Y., Durán-Urzúa, C., Havron, N., Manalili, M., Narasimhan, B., Omane, P., Rowland, C., ... Woon, F. (2023, January 13). Towards diversifying early language development research: First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/a3dy8

Langus, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., van Ommen, S., & Nazzi, T. (2023). Music and language in the crib: Early cross-domain effects of experience on categorical perception of prominence in spoken language. Developmental Science, 26(5), e13383. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13383

Omane, P. O., Benders, T., Duah, R., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2023). Diversifying language acquisition research can be (partly) achieved in urban societies and with simplified methodologies: Insights from multilingual Ghana. Journal of Child Language, 50(3), 532–536. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000923000090

2022

Abakarova, D., Fuchs, S., & Noiray, A. (2022). Developmental changes in coarticulation degree relate to differences in articulatory patterns: An empirically grounded modeling approach. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(9), 3276–3299. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00212

Marimon, M., Höhle, B., & Langus, A. (2022). Pupillary entrainment reveals individual differences in cue weighting in 9-month-old German-learning infants. Cognition, 224, 105054. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105054

Vanoncini, M., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Elsner, B., Hoehl, S., & Kayhan, E. (2022). The role of mother-infant emotional synchrony in speech processing in 9-month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 69, 101772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101772

Marimon, M., & Höhle, B. (2022). Testing prosodic development with the Headturn Preference Procedure: A test-retest reliability study. Infant and Child Development, 31(6), e2362. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2362

Ren, J., & Höhle, B. (2022). The interplay between language acquisition and cognitive development. Infant Behavior and Development, 67, 101718. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101718

2021

Krüger, S., & Noiray, A. (2021). Developmental differences in perceptual anticipation underlie different sensitivities to coarticulatory dynamics. Journal of Child Language, 49(5), 959–978. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000921000398

Marimon, M., Hofmann, A., Veríssimo, J., Männel, C., Friederici, A. D., Höhle, B., & Wartenburger, I. (2021) Children's learning of non-adjacent dependencies using a web-based computer game setting. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 734877. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.734877

Paul, M., Männel, C., van der Kant, A., Mueller, J. L., Höhle, B., Wartenburger, I., & Friederici, A. D. (2021). Gradual development of non-adjacent dependency learning during early childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 50, 100975. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100975

Krasotkina, A., Götz, A., Höhle, B., & Schwarzer, G. (2021). Bimodal familiarization re-sensitizes 12-month-olds infants to other-race faces. Infant Behavior and Development, 62, 101502, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101502

Gasparini, L., Langus, A., Tsuji, S., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2021). Quantifying the role of rhythm in infants’ language discrimination abilities: A meta-analysis. Cognition, 213, 104757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104757

Horn, P., Fritzsche, T., Ehlert, A., & Adani, F. (2021). Tapping into the interplay of lexical and number knowledge using fast mapping: A longitudinal eye-tracking study with two-year-olds. Infant Behavior and Development, 64, 101573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101573

Walter, A., Fritzsche, T., & Höhle, B. (2021).  Grammatical gender acquisition in German: Three-year-old children use phonological cues to learn the gender of novel nouns. In Danielle Dionne & Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 2, pp. 746–760). Cascadilla Press. http://www.cascadilla.com/bucld45toc.html

Omane, P. O., & Höhle, B. (2021). Acquiring syntactic variability: The production of wh-questions in children and adults speaking Akan. Frontiers in Communication, 6, 604951. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.604951

Höhle, B., Fritzsche, T., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Hullebus, M., & Gafos, A. (2021). Respect the surroundings: Effects of phonetic context variability on infants' learning of minimal pairs. JASA Express Letters, 1(2), 024401. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0003574

2020

Noiray, A., Ries, J., Tiede, M., Rubertus, E., Laporte, C., & Ménard, L. (2020). Recording and analyzing kinematic data in children and adults with SOLLAR: Sonographic & Optical Linguo-Labial Articulation Recording system. Laboratory Phonology, 11(1), 14. https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.241

Rubertus, E., & Noiray, A. (2020). Vocalic activation width decreases across childhood: Evidence from carryover coarticulation. Laboratory Phonology, 11(1), 7. https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.228

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.2020.565651

van der Kant, A., Männel, C., Paul, M., Friederici, A. D., Höhle, B., & Wartenburger, I. (2020). Linguistic and non-linguistic non-adjacent dependency learning in early development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 45, 100819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100819

Krasotkina, A., Götz, A., Höhle, B., & Schwarzer, G. (2020). Infants’ gaze patterns for same-race and other-race faces, and the other-race effect. Brain Sciences, 10(6), 331. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10060331

Boll-Avetisyan, N., Bhatara, A., & Höhle, B. (2020). Processing of rhythm in speech and music in adult dyslexia. Brain Sciences, 10(5), 261. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10050261

Boll-Avetisyan, N., Bhatara, A., Unger, A., Höhle, B., & Nazzi, T. (2020). Rhythmic grouping bias in simultaneous bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728920000140

Höhle, B., Fritzsche, T., Meß, K., Philipp, M., & Gafos, A. I. (2020). Only the right noise? Effects of phonetic and visual input variability on 14-month-olds' minimal pair word learning. Developmental Science , 23(5), e12950. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12950

The 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

van Ommen, S., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Larraza, S., Wellman, C., Bijeljac-Babic, R., Höhle, B., & Nazzi, T. (2020). Language-specific prosodic acquisition: A comparison of phrase boundary perception by French- and German-learning infants. Journal of Memory and Language, 112, 104108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104108

Höhle, B., Bijeljac-Babic, R., & Nazzi, T. (2020). Variability and stability in early language acquisition: Comparing monolingual and bilingual infants' speech perception and word recognition. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23(1), 56–71. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728919000348

Garcia, R., Roeser, J., & Höhle, B. (2020). Children’s online use of word order and morphosyntactic markers in Tagalog thematic role assignment: An eye-tracking study. Journal of Child Language, 47(3), 533–555. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000919000618

2019

Noiray, A., Popescu, A., Killmer, H., Rubertus, E., Krüger, S., & Hintermeier, L. (2019). Spoken language development and the challenge of skill integration. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2777. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02777

Noiray, A., Wieling, M., Abakarova, D., Rubertus, E., & Tiede, M. (2019). Back from the future: Nonlinear anticipation in adults’ and children’s speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62(8S), 3033–3054. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_JSLHR-S-CSMC7-18-0208

Hilton, M., Räling, R., Wartenburger, I., & Elsner, B. (2019). Parallels in processing boundary cues in speech and action. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1566. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01566

Höhle, B. (2019). Die Rolle des Trochäus im Spracherwerb. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbands. 66(4), 377–382.

Garcia, R., Roeser, J., & Höhle, B. (2019). Thematic role assignment in L1 acquisition of Tagalog: Use of word order and morphosyntactic markers. Language Acquisition, 26(3), 235–261. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2018.1525613

Tamasi, K., McKean, C., Gafos, A., & Höhle, B. (2019). Children’s gradient sensitivity to phonological mismatch: Considering the dynamics of looking behavior and pupil dilation. Journal of Child Language, 46(1), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000918000259

Chen, H., Szendroi, K., Crain, S., & Höhle, B. (2019). Understanding prosodic focus marking in  Mandarin Chinese: Data from children and adults. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 48(1), 19–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-018-9580-9

Junge, C., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Benders, T. (2019). Speech perception and discrimination: From sounds to words. In J. S. Horst &. J. von Koss Torkildsen (Eds.), International Handbook of Language Acquisition (pp. 153–172). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315110622-9

2018

Rubertus, E., & Noiray, A. (2018). On the development of gestural organization: A cross-sectional study of vowel-to-vowel anticipatory coarticulation. PloS One, 13(9), e0203562. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203562

Noiray, A., Abakarova, D., Rubertus, E., Krüger, S., & Tiede, M. (2018). How do children organize their speech in the first years of life? Insight from ultrasound imaging. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(6), 1355–1368. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-S-17-0148

Krasotkina, A., Götz, A., Höhle, B., & Schwarzer, G. (2018). Perceptual narrowing in speech and face recognition: Evidence for intra-individual cross-domain relations. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1711. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01711

Holzgrefe-Lang, J., Wellmann, C., Höhle, B., & Wartenburger, I. (2018). Infants’ processing of prosodic cues: Electrophysiological evidence for boundary perception beyond pause detection. Language and Speech, 61(1), 153–166. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830917730590

Fernandez, L., Höhle, B., Brock, J., & Nickels, L. (2018). Investigating auditory processing of syntactic gaps with L2 speakers using pupillometry. Second Language Research, 34(2), 201–227. doi:10.1177/0267658317722386

Boll-Avetisyan, N., Nixon, J., Lentz, T., Liu, L., Ommen, S. van, Coltekin, C., & Rij, J. van (2018). Neural response development during distributional learning.  Proceedings of Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India, 2-6 September, 1432–1436. doi:10.21437/Interspeech.2018

Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2018). The role of phonological structure in speech segmentation by infants and adults: a review and methodological considerations. In Christiane Ulbrich, Alexander Werth, Richard Wiese (Eds.), Empirical Approaches to the Phonological Structure of Words (pp. 213–240). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110542899

Nixon, J., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Lentz, T.O., van Ommen, S., Keij, B., Çöltekin, Ç, Liu, L. & van Rij, J. (2018). Short-term exposure enhances perception of both between- and within-category acoustic information. Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 9 Conference, Poznań, Poland, 114–118. doi:10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-23

Garcia, R., Dery, J. E., Roeser, J., & Höhle, B. (2018). Word order preferences of Tagalog-speaking adults and children. First Language. 38(6), 617–640. doi:10.1177/0142723718790317

Sauermann, A., & Höhle, B. (2018). Word order in German child language and child-directed speech: A corpus analysis on the ordering of double objects in the German middlefield. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 3(1), 57. doi:10.5334/gjgl.281

Chen, A., & Höhle, B.. (2018). Four- to five-year-olds’ use of word order and prosody in focus marking in Dutch. Linguistics Vanguard, 4(s1). doi:10.1515/lingvan-2016-0101

Bhatara, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Höhle, B., & Nazzi, T. (2018). Early sensitivity and acquisition of prosodic patterns at the lexical level. In P. Prieto & N. Esteve-Gibert (Eds.), The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition (pp. 38–57). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi:10.1075/tilar.23.03bha

Götz, A., Yeung, H., Krasotkina, A., Schwarzer, G., & Höhle, B. (2018). Perceptual Reorganization of lexical tones: Effects of age and experimental procedure. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 477. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00477

Süss, A., Hendriks, P., Fritzsche, T., & Höhle, B. (2018). Acquisition of adjectival agreement in German: Sensitivity to grammar is reflected in 3-year-olds' pupil dilation. In Anne B. Bertolini & Maxwell J. Kaplan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 2, pp. 722–735). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Szendrői, K., Bernard, C., Berger, F., Gervain, J., & Höhle, B. (2018). Acquisition of prosodic focus marking by English, French, and German three-, four-, five- and six-year-olds. Journal of Child Language. 45(1), 219–241. doi:10.1017/S0305000917000071

2017

Petrone, C., Truckenbrodt, H., Wellmann, C., Holzgrefe-Lang, J., Wartenburger, I., & Höhle, B.(2017). Prosodic boundary cues in German: Evidence from the production and perception of bracketed lists. Journal of Phonetics, 61, 71–92. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2017.01.002

Szendrői, K., Schumacher, R., Fritzsche, T., & Höhle, B. (2017). Acquisition of quantifier raising of a universal across an existential: Evidence from German. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2(1), 46. doi:10.5334/gjgl.261

Boll-Avetisyan, N., Bhatara, A., & Höhle, B. (2017). Effects of musicality on the perception of rhythmic structure in speech. Laboratory Phonology, 8(1), 9. doi:10.5334/labphon.91

Tamási, K., McKean, C., Gafos, A., Fritzsche, T., & Höhle, B. (2017). Pupillometry registers toddlers' sensitivity to degrees of mispronunciation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 153, 140-148. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2016.07.014

2016

Abboub, N., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Bhatara, A., Höhle, B., & Nazzi, T. (2016). An exploration of rhythmic grouping of speech sequences by French- and German-learning infants. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10(292). doi:10.3389/fnhum.2016.00292

Bhatara, A., Laukka, P., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Granjon, L., Anger Elfenbein, H., & Bänziger, T. (2016). Second Language Ability and Emotional Prosody Perception, PLoS ONE, 11(6), e0156855. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156855

Holzgrefe-Lang, J., Wellmann, C., Petrone, C., Räling, R., Truckenbrodt, H., Höhle, B., & Wartenburger, I. (2016). How pitch change and final lengthening cue boundary perception in German: Converging evidence from ERPs and prosodic judgements. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(7), 904-920. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2016.1157195

Höhle, B., Fritzsche, T., & Müller, A. (2016). Children’s comprehension of sentences with focus particles and the role of cognitive control: An eye tracking study with German-learning 4-year-olds. PLoS ONE, 11(3), e0149870. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0149870

Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Kager, R. (2016). Is speech processing influenced by abstract or detailed phonotactic representations? The case of the Obligatory Contour Principle. Lingua, 171, 74–91. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2015.11.008

Bijeljac-Babic, R., Höhle, B., & Nazzi, T. (2016). Early Prosodic Acquisition in Bilingual Infants: The Case of the Perceptual Trochaic Bias. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, e30843. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00210

Boll-Avetisyan, N., Bhatara, A.,  Unger, A., Nazzi, T., & Höhle, B. (2016). Effects of experience with L2 and music on rhythmic grouping by French listeners. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19(5), 971–986. doi:10.1017/S1366728915000425

Bhatara, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Agus, T, Höhle, B., & Nazzi, T. (2016). Language experience affects grouping of musical instrument sounds. Cognitive Science, 40(7), 1816–1830. doi:10.1111/cogs.12300

2015

Fritzsche, T., & Höhle, B. (2015). Phonological and lexical mismatch detection in 30-month-olds and adults measured by pupillometry. In: The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK: University of Glasgow. ISBN 978-0-85261-941-4. Paper number 0339.

Adani, F., & Fritzsche, T. (2015). On the relation between implicit and explicit measures of child language development: Evidence from relative clause processing in 4-year-olds and adults. In: E. Grillo &  K. Jepson (Eds.). Proceedings of the 39th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 1, pp. 14–26). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2014

Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Kager, R. (2014). OCP-Place in speech segmentation. Language and Speech,57(3), 394-421. doi:10.1177/0023830913508074

Höhle, B., Pauen, S., Hesse, V., & Weissenborn, J. (2014). Discrimination of rhythmic pattern at 4 months and language performance at 5 years: A longitudinal analysis of data from German-learning children. Language Learning,64, 141–164. doi:10.1111/lang.12075

Brandt-Kobele, O.-C., & Höhle, B. (2014). The detection of subject–verb agreement violations by German-speaking children: An eye-tracking study. Lingua, 144, 7-20. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2013.12.008

Höhle, B., Hörnig, R., Weskott, T., Knauf, S., & Krüger, A. (2014). Effects of focus and definiteness on children's word order: Evidence from German five-year-olds' reproductions of double object constructions. Journal of Child Language,41(4), 780-810. doi:10.1017/S0305000913000196

2013

Holzgrefe, J., Wellmann, C., Petrone, C., Truckenbrodt, H., Höhle, B., & Wartenburger, I. (2013). Brain response to prosodic boundary cues depends on boundary position. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(421). doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00421

Bhatara, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Unger, A., Nazzi, T., & Höhle, B. (2013). Native language affects rhythmic grouping of speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(5), 3828-3843. doi:10.1121/1.4823848

Bijeljac-Babic, R., Serres, J., Höhle, B., & Nazzi, T. (2013). Effect of bilingualism on the perception of lexical stress in 6-month-old French-learning infants. In S. Baiz, N. Goldman & R. Hawkes (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 1, pp. 24-35). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Ott, S., & Höhle, B. (2013). Verb inflection in German-learning children with typical and atypical language acquisition: The impact of subsyllabic frequencies. Journal of Child Language, 40(1), 169-192. doi:10.1017/S030500091200027X

2012

Wellmann, C., Holzgrefe, J., Truckenbrodt, H., Wartenburger, I., & Höhle, B. (2012). How each prosodic boundary cue matters: Evidence from German infants. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(580). doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00580

Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2012). Phonotactics and its Acquisition, Representation, and Use: An Experimental-Phonological Study. Doctoral dissertation. Utrecht: LOT Publications. LOT Dissertation series 298.

Bijeljac-Babic, R., Serres, J., Höhle, B., & Nazzi, T. (2012). Effect of bilingualism on lexical stress pattern discrimination in French-learning infants. PLoS ONE, 7(2), e30843. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030843

Berger, F., & Höhle, B. (2012). Restrictions on addition: Children’s interpretation of the focus particles auch (‘also’) and nur (‘only’) in German. Journal of Child Language, 39, 383-410. doi:10.1017/S0305000911000122

2011

Schröder, C., & Höhle, B. (2011). Prosodische Wahrnehmung im frühen Spracherwerb. Sprache – Stimme – Gehör, 35, e91-e98.

2010

Brandt-Kobele, O.-C., & Höhle, B. (2010). What asymmetries within comprehension reveal about asymmetries between comprehension and production: The case of verb inflection in language acquisition. Lingua, 120(8), 1910-1925. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2010.02.008

2009

Höhle, B. (2009). Bootstrapping mechanisms in first language acquisition. Linguistics, 47(2), 359-382. doi:10.1515/LING.2009.013

Höhle, B., Berger, F., Müller, A., Schmitz, M., & Weissenborn, J. (2009). Focus particles in children's language: Production and comprehension of auch 'also' in German learners from 1 year to 4 years of age. Language Acquisition, 16(1), 36-66. doi:10.1080/10489220802584550

Höhle, B., Bijeljac-Babic, R., Herold, B., Weissenborn, J., & Nazzi, T. (2009). Language specific prosodic preferences during the first half year of life: Evidence from German and French infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 32(3), 262-274. doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2009.03.004

Bartels, S., Darcy, I., & Höhle, B. (2009). Schwa syllables facilitate word segmentation for 9-month-old German-learning infants. In J. Chandlee, M. Franchini, S. Lord, & G.-M. Rheiner (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 1, pp. 73-84). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Müller, A., Höhle, B., Schmitz, M., & Weissenborn, J. (2009). Information structural constraints on children's early language production: The acquisition of the focus particle auch ('also') in German-learning 12- to 36-month-olds. First Language, 29(4), 373-399. doi:10.1177/0142723709105314

2008 and before

Herold, B., Höhle, B., Walch, E., Weber, T., & Obladen, M. (2008). Impaired word stress pattern discrimination in very-low-birthweight infants during the first 6 months of life. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 50(9), 678-683. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.03055.x

Höhle, B., Schmitz, M., Santelmann, L. M., & Weissenborn, J. (2006). The recognition of discontinuous verbal dependencies by German 19-month-olds: Evidence for lexical and structural influences on children's early processing capacities. Language Learning and Development, 2(4), 277-300. doi:10.1207/s15473341lld0204_3

Höhle, B., van de Vijver, R., & Weissenborn, J. (2006). Word processing at 19 months at its relation to language performance at 30 months: A retrospective analysis of data from German learning children. Advances in Speech and Language Pathology, 8(4), 356-363. doi:10.1080/14417040600970614

Ott, S., van de Vijver, R., & Höhle, B. (2006). The effect of phonotactic constraints in German-speaking children with delayed phonological acquisition: Evidence from production of word-initial consonant clusters. Advances in Speech and Language Pathology, 8(4), 323-334. doi:10.1080/14417040600970622

Höhle, B. (2005). Der Einstieg in die Grammatik: Spracherwerb während des ersten Lebensjahres. Forum Logopädie, 6(19), 16-21.

Höhle, B., Weissenborn, J., Kiefer, D., Schulz, A., & Schmitz, M. (2004). Functional elements in infants' speech processing: The role of determiners in the syntactic categorization of lexical elements. Infancy, 5(3), 341-353. doi:10.1207/s15327078in0503_5

Höhle, B., & Weissenborn, J. (2003). German-learning infants' ability to detect unstressed closed-class elements in continuous speech. Developmental Science, 6(2), 122-127. doi:10.1111/1467-7687.00261

Höhle, B. (2002). Der Einstieg in die Grammatik: Die Rolle der Phonologie/Syntax-Schnittstelle für Sprachverarbeitung und Spracherwerb. Habilitationsschrift. Freie Universität Berlin.