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    Peer reviewed journals

  • Marimon Tarter, M., Langus, A., Höhle B., (accepted) Prosody outweighs statistics in 6-month-old German learning infants’ speech segmentation. Infancy.

  • Sensoy, Ö., Krasotkina, A., Götz, A., Höhle, B. & Schwarzer, G. (2024) Differences in the interplay of face and speech processing in 5-year-olds and adults. International Journal of Behavioral Development. DOI: 10.1177/01650254241236466

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

  • Kalashnikova, M., Leher, S., Tsui, A., Altuntas, E., Burnham, D., Cannistraci, R., Chin, N.G., Fernández-Merino, L., Götz, A., Gustavsson, L., Hay, J., Höhle, B., Kager, R., Lai, R., Liu, L., Marklund, E., Nazzi, T., Santos Oliveira, D., Olstad, A., Picaud, A., Schwarz, I.-C., Tsao, F.-M., Wong, P., &  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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Marimon, M., Hofmann, A., Verissimo, 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. Doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.734877.

  • Langus, A., & Höhle, B. (2021) Object individuation and labelling in 6-month-olds. Infant Behavior and Development, 65,  101627,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101627

  • Krasotkina, A., Götz, A., Höhle, B.. & Schwarzer, G. (2021) Perceptual narrowing in face- and speech-perception domains infancy: A longitudinal approach. Infant Behavior and Development, 64, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101607

  • 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

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

  • 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

  • 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, 331, doi:10.3390/brainsci10060331,

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

  • Van Ommen, S., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Larraza, S., Wellmann, 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.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104108

  • Höhle, B., Fritzsche, T., Mess, K., Philipp, M., & Gafos, A. (2020) Only the right noise? Effects of phonetic and visual input variability on 14-month-olds’ minimal pair word learning. Developmental Science, 00:e12950. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12950

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

  • The Many Babies Consortium (in press) Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

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

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

  • Höhle, B., Bijeljac-Babic, R., & Nazzi, T. (2019) Variability and stability in early language acquisition: Comparing monolingual and bilingual infants’ speech perception and word recognition. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23, 56-71.
    https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728919000348

  • 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, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000918000259

  • Chen, H., Szendroi, K., Crain, S., & Höhle, B. (2019) Understanding 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

  • 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. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01711

  • Garcia, R., Dery, J. E., Roeser, J., & Höhle, B. (2018) Word order preferences of Tagalog-speaking children and adults. First Language, 38, 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. 1-32. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.281 

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

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

  • 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. DOI: 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. https:// DOI: 10.1177/0267658317722386

  • Szendroi, K., Bernard, C., Berger, F., Gervain, J. & Höhle, B. (2018) Acquisition of prosodic focus marking by English, French and German 3-, 4-, 5- and 6-year-olds. Journal of Child Language 45, 219-241. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000917000071

  • 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2017.01.002

  • Szendroi, 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, 1-16, DOI: https://doi.org/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: 9, 1-16, DOI:
    https://doi.org/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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.07.014

  • 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. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00292

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

  • Höhle, B., Fritzsche, T., & Müller, A. (2016) Children’s comprehension of sentences with focus particles and cognitive control: An eyetracking study with German-learning 4-year olds. PLoS ONE. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0149870

  • Bijeljac-Babic R., Höhle, B. & Nazzi, T. (2016) Early prosodic acquisition in bilingual infants: the case of the perceptual trochaic bias. Frontiers in Psychology.
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00210

  • Bhatara, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Angus, T., Höhle, B. & Nazzi, T. (2016) Language experience affects grouping of musical instrument sounds. Cognitive Science 40, 1816-1830..

  • 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, 971-986.

  • Linnik, A., Bastiaanse, R., & Höhle, B. (2016) Discourse production in aphasia: a current review of theoretical and methodological challenges. Aphasiology, 30, 765-800.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2015.1113489

  • 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.

  • Brandt-Kobele, O., & Höhle, B. (2014) The detection of subject-verb agreement violations by German-speaking children: An eye-tracking study. Lingua, 144, 7-20.

  • Höhle, B., Hörnig, R., Weskott, T., Knauf, S. & Krüger, A. (2014) Effects of focus and definiteness on children’s word order: Evidence from German 5-year-olds‘ reproductions of double object constructions. Journal of Child Language, 41, 780-810.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000913000196

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

  • 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 Language Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00421

  • 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, 169-192. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S030500091200027X

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

  • 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).
    http://dx.doi.org/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: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000911000122

  • 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, 1910-1925.
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384110000276

  • 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, 373-399.

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

  • 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, 36-66.

  • Höhle, B. (2009) Bootstrapping mechanisms in first language acquisition. Linguistics, 47, 359-382.

  • Höhle, B., Wang, H. & Mintz, T. (2008) Syntactic categorization of new words: Distributional and morphological cues to form class. International Journal of Psychology 43, 177.

  • Herold, B., Höhle, B., Walch, E., Weber, T. & Obladen, M. (2008) Impaired word stress pattern discrimination in very low-birth weight infants during the first 6 months of life. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 50, 678-683.

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

  • Ott, S., van de Vijver, R. & Höhle, B. (2006) Phonotactic knowledge in German children with specific language impairment: Evidence from the production of complex onsets. Advances in Speech and Language Pathology 8, 323-334.

  • 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, 277-300.

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

  • Höhle, B. (2004) Sprachwahrnehmung und Spracherwerb im ersten Lebensjahr. Stimme - Sprache - Gehör 27, 1-6.

  • Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (2003) German-learning infants‘ ability to detect unstressed closed-class elements in continuous speech. Developmental Science 6, 122-127.

  • Höhle, B., Kelter, S., Höhle, B. & Merdian, G. (1989) Bahnung und Interferenz bei der Bildbenennung von Aphasikern. Neurolinguistik 3, 35-55.

  • Kelter, S., Grötzbach, H., Freiheit, R., Höhle, B., Wutzig, S. & Diesch, E. (1984) Object identification: The mental representation of physical and conceptual attributes. Memory and Cognition 12, 123-133.

    Book Chapters

  • Bhatara, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Höhle, B. & Nazzi, T. (2018) Early sensitivity and acquisition of prosodic patterns at the lexical level. In Pilar Prieto & Nuria Esteve-Gibert (edsl) The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Pp 37-57.

  • Höhle, B., Berger, F. & Sauermann, A. (2016) First language acquisition. In C. Fery & S. Ishihara (eds.) Handbook of Information Structure. Oxford: University Press. Pp. 562-580.

  • Höhle, B. (2015) Crosslinguistic perspectives on segmentation and categorization in early language acquisition. In E. Bavin & L. Naigles (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language. Second Edition. Cambridge: University Press. pp. 159-182.

  • Höhle, B. (2015) Der Erwerb sprachlicher Markierungen von Informationsstrukur. In S. Adam, D. Jakob & M. Schecker (Hrsg.) Informationsstrukturen in Kontrast. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. pp 191-201.

  • Sauermann, A. & Höhle, B. (2013) Corpus in159-182.vestigation of information-structural ordering preference in German-speaking children and adults. In S. Stavrakaki, M. Lalioti & P. Konstantinopoulou (eds.) Advances in Language Acquisition. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp 173-181.

  • Müller, A., Schulz, P. & Höhle, B. (2011) Pragmatic children: How German children interpret sentences with and without the focus particle only. In J. Meibauer & M. Steinbach (eds.) Experimental Pragmatics and Semantics. Amsterdam: Benjamins., pp.171-192.

  • Brandt-Kobele, O.-C. & Höhle, B. (2011) Asymmetries in children’s language performance within and across modalities. In A. Grimm, A. Müller, C. Hamann & E. Ruigendijk (eds.) Production-Comprehension Asymmetries in Child Language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 171-192.

  • Höhle, B. (2009) Crosslinguistic perspectives on segmentation and categorization in early language acquisition. In E. Bavin (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language. Cambridge: University Press.

  • Van de Vijver, R., Höhle, B. & Ott, S. (2009) On the distribution of dorsals in complex and simple onset in child German, Dutch and English. In F. Kügler, C. Féry & Van de Vijver, R. (eds.) Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

  • Müller, A., Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (2008) Teaching a new word: Properties of CDS to 12-month-old German-learning children. In S. Kern, F. Gayraud and E. Marsica (eds.) Emergence of Linguistic Abilities. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

  • Van Kampen, A., Parmaksiz, G., van de Vijver, R. & Höhle, B. (2008) Metrical and statistical cues for word segmentation: The use of vowel harmony and word stress as a cue to word boundaries by 6- and 9-month-old Turkish learners. In A. Gavarró & M. J. Freitas (eds.) Language Acquisition and Development. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

  • Schmitz, M. & Höhle, B. (2007) Habituierung und Dishabituierung als Maße der perzeptuellen und kognitiven Entwicklung – Methoden und Anwendungsbereiche. In. L. Kaufmann, H.-C. Nuerk, K. Konrad & K. Willmes (Hrsg.) Kognitive Entwicklungsneuropsychologie. Göttingen: Hofgrefe.

  • Nubel, K., Kruck, S., Höhle, B., Suhl, U., Weissenborn, J., Gross, M. (2003) Interaktion behavioraler und elektrophysiologischer Ergebnisse zur Phonemdiskrimination bei Säuglingen. In M. Gross & E. Kruse (Hrsg.) Aktuelle phoniatrisch-pädaudiologische Aspekte 2003/2004, Band 11. Heidelberg 2003: Median Verlag.

  • Höhle, B., Weissenborn, J., Schmitz, M. & Ischebeck, A. (2001) Discovering Word Order Regularities: The Role of Prosodic Information for Early Parameter Setting. In J. Weissenborn & B. Höhle (eds.) Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, Lexical, Syntactic and Neurophysiological Aspects of Early Language Acquisition. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

  • Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (2000) Lauter Laute? Lautsegmente und Silben in der Sprachperzeption und im Spracherwerb. In R. Thieroff, M. Tamrat, N. Furhop & O. Teuber, O. (Hrsg.) Deutsche Grammatik in Theorie und Praxis. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

  • Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (1999) Discovering Grammar. In A. Friederici & R. Menzel (eds.) Learning: Rule Extraction and Representation. Berlin: de Gruyter.

  • Höhle, B. & Schriefers, H. (1995) Ambisyllabizität im Deutschen: Psycholinguistische Evidenz. In P. Baerentzen (ed.) Aspekte der Sprachbeschreibung. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

    Monographs and Edited Volumes

  • Höhle, B. (Hg.) (2010) Psycholinguistik. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.

  • Weissenborn, J. & B. Höhle, (eds.) (2001) Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, Lexical, Syntactic and Neurophysiological Aspects of Early Language Acquisition. Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

  • Höhle, B. (1995) Aphasie und Sprachproduktion. Sprachstörungen bei Broca- und Wernicke-Aphasikern. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.

    Proceedings and Working Papers

  • Süss, A., Hendriks, P., Fritzsche, T., & Höhle, B. (2018) Acquisition of adjectival agreement in German: Sensitivity to grammar is reflected in 3-xear-olds’ pupil dilation. In Anne B. Bertolini & Maxwell J. Kaplan (eds.) Proceedings of the 42nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA.: Cascadilla Press. Pp722-735.

  • Tamási, K., Wewalaarachchi, T. D., Höhle, B., & Singh, L. (2016) Measuring sensitivity to phonological detail in monolingual and bilingual infants using pupillometry. Proceedings of the 16th Speech Science and Technology Conference.

  • Fritzsche, T., & Höhle, B. (2015). Phonological and lexical mismatch detection in 30-month-olds and adults measured by pupillometry. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Glasgow, Scotland, UK, August 10-14, 2015. pp. tbd.

  • Müller, A., Höhle, B. & Schulz, P. (2015) The interaction of focus particles and information structure in acquisition. In C. Hamann & E. Ruigendijk (eds.) Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2013. Newcastle Upon Thyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pp. 330-342.

  • 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.) BUCLD 37: Proceedings of the 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pp.24-25.

  • Sauermann, A., Höhle, B., Chen, A. & Järvikivi, J. (2011) Intonational Marking of Focus in Different Word Orders in German Children. In Proceedings of the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. Mary Byram Washburn et al., Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

  • Müller, A., Schulz, P. & Höhle, B. (2011) How the understanding of focus particles develops: Evidence from child German. In M. Pirvulescu et al., (eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2010). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

  • Wang, H., Höhle, B., Ketrez, N.H., Küntay, A. C. & Mintz, T. H. (2011) Distributional analyses with frequent frames: The cases of German and Turkish. In N. Danis, K. Mesh & H. Sung (eds.) BUCLD 35: Proceedings of the 35th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pp. 628-640.

  • Oosthuizen, H., Höhle, B. & Southwood, F. (2010) Motion events in Afrikaans: their expression by adult speakers and by children with and without language impairment. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics PLUS, 40, 55-77.

  • 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.) BUCLD 33: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. pp. 73-84. Somerville M.A.: Cascadilla Press.

  • Berger, F., Müller, A., Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (2007) German 4-year-olds’ comprehension of sentences containing the focus particle auch (also): Evidence from eye-tracking. In H. Caunt-Nulton, S. Kulatilake, I. Woo (eds.) BUCLD 31: Proceedings of the 31st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol 1. pp. 105-116. Somerville M.A.: Cascadilla Press.

  • Pelzer, L. & Höhle, B. (2006) Processing of morphological markers as a cue to syntactic phrases by 10-month-old German-learning infants. In Belletti, A., Bennati, E., Chesi, C., DiDomenico, E., & Ferrari, I. (Eds.) Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA2005. pp. 411-422. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.

  • Schmitz, M., Höhle, B., Müller, A. & Weissenborn, J. (2006). The Recognition of the Prosodic Focus Position in German-Learning Infants from 4 to 14 Months. In S. Ishihara, M. Schmitz & A. Schwarz (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure - Working Papers of the SFB 632, ISIS05.

  • Müller, A., Höhle, B., Schmitz, M., Weissenborn, J. (2006). Focus-to-stress alignment in 4- to 5-year-old German-learning children. In Belletti, A., Bennati, E., Chesi, C., DiDomenico, E., & Ferrari, I. (Eds.), Language Acquisition and Development. Proceedings of GALA 2005. pp. 379-392. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.

  • Höhle, B., van de Vijver, R., Bartels, S. & Weissenborn, J. (2006) Phonological specificity of early lexical representations in German 19-month-olds at risk for SLI. In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia, C. Zaller (eds.) BUCLD 30: Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol. 1. Somerville M.A.: Cascadilla Press.

  • Pelzer, & Höhle, B. (2006) The impact of morphological markers on infants’ and adults speech processing. In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia, C. Zaller (eds.) BUCLD 30: Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol. 2. Somerville M.A.: Cascadilla Press.

  • Blenn, L., Seidl, A. & Höhle, B. (2003) Recognition of Phrases in Early Language Acquisition: The Role of Morphological Markers. In B. Beachley, A. Brown & F.Conlin (eds.) BUCLD 27: Proceedings of the 27th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Sumerville: Cascadilla Press. 138-149.

  • Höhle, B., Weissenborn, J., Kiefer, D., Schulz, A. & Schmitz, M. (2002) The origins of syntactic categorization for lexical elements: The role of determiners. In J. Costa & M.J. Freitas (eds.) Proceedings of the GALA 2001 Conference on Language Acquisition. Lisboa, Associação Portugesa de Linguística.

  • Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (2000) The Origins of Syntactic Knowledge: Recognition of determiners in one year old German children In C. Howell, S. A. Fish, & T. Keith-Lucas, Proceedings of the 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. (pp.138-149). Sumerville: Cascadilla Press.

  • Weissenborn, J., Höhle, B., Kiefer, D. & Cavar, D. (1998) Children’s Sensitivity to Word-Order Violations in German: Evidence for very Early Parameter-Setting, In A. Greenhill, M. Hughes, H. Littlefield & H. Walsh (eds.) Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Boston Conference on Language Development, Somerville, Cascadilla Press.

  • Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (1998) Sensitivity to Closed-Class Elements in Preverbal Children, In A. Greenhill, M. Hughes, H Littlefield, & H. Walsh (eds.) Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Boston Conference on Language Development, Somerville, Cascadilla Press.

    Conference and Workshop Presentations

    Peer Reviewed Oral presentations

  • Götz, A., Krasotkina, A., Schwarzer, G., & Höhle, B. Neural correlates of non-native lexical tone and vowel discrimination in 9-month-old German infants and adults: An ERP study. 4th Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD), Potsdam, June 2019.

  • Fritzsche, T., Gafos, A., & Höhle, B. (2018). Is any type of input variability beneficial for mapping novel words to objects in 14-month-old infants? 3rd Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development (LCICD), Lancaster, UK Sept 2018.

  • Boll-Avetisyan, N., van Ommen, S., Nazzi, T., & Höhle, B. Stress “deafness” can be overcome: Evidence from Second language learners. EuroSLA 28, Münster, Germany, Sept 2018.

  • Boll-Avetisyan, N., van Ommen, S., Nazzi, T., & Höhle, B. Categorical perception of lexical stress by simultaneous and late bilinguals. LabPhon 16, Lisbon, Portugal, June, 2018

  • Garcia, R., Roeser, J., & Höhle, B. “Children’s production and comprehension of Tagalog transitive sentences.” The 25th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 25), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2018 

  • Marimon, M., & Höhle, B. Early segmentation cues: prosody and statistical learning. 40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, , Stuttgart, Germany, March 2018.

  • Garcia, R., Roeser, J., & Höhle, B. “Children’s comprehension of Tagalog transitive sentences.” European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy, Jan 2018 

  • Süss, A., Hendriks, P., Fritzsche, T., & Höhle, B. Acquisition of agreement in German: Sensitivity to grammar is reflected in 3-year-olds’ pupil dilation. 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, USA, Nov. 2017.

  • van Ommen, S., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Larraza, S., Wellmann, C., Bijeljac-Babic, R., Höhle, B., & Nazzi, T. Prosodic boundary perception in French: infant data and analysis of acoustic cues. Poster, 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Lyon, France, July 2017.

  • Boll-Avetisyan, N., Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. Rhythmic speech segmentation at 6 months. 3rd Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD), Bilbao, Spain, June 2017.

  • Van Ommen, S., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Larraza, S., Wellmann, C., Bijeljac-Babic, R., Nazzi, T. & Höhle, B. Language-specific sensitivity to prosodic boundaries: Evidence from French- and German-learning infants. 3rd Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD), Bilbao, Spain, June 15-17, 2017.

  • Süss, A., Fritzsche, T., Hendriks, P., & Höhle, B. The processing of subject-verb-agreement violations in German speakers as reflected by pupil dilation. 5th Experimental Psycholinguistic Conference, Menorca, Spain. Jun 2017.

  • Van Ommen, S., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Larraza, S., Wellmann, C., Bijeljac-Babic, R., Nazzi, T. & Höhle, B. Phonetic cues in French prosodic boundaries and infant prosodic processing. PaPE, Cologne, Germany, June 12-14, 2017.

  • Garcia, R., Déry, J. E., Roeser, J. & Höhle, B. L1 acquisition of thematic role assignment in Tagalog: Word-order-based strategies vs. morphosyntactic cues. 41st Annual Boston University Conference on language Development (BUCLD), Boston, MA, USA, Nov 2016

  • Fritzsche, T., & Höhle, B. The detection of grammatical gender dependencies in German-learning 18- and 24-month-old children. 1st Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, Lancaster, UK, Aug 2016.

  • Tamási, K., McKean, C., Gafos, A. & Höhle, B. Sensitivity to degrees of mispronuniciation: Enriching the preferential looking paradigm with pupillometry. 15th Laboratory Phonology Conference (LabPhon), Ithaca, NY, USA, July 2016.

  • Boll-Avetisyan, N., Larraza, S., Rose, A., Margules, S., Bijeljac-Babic, R., Nazzi, T. & Höhle, B. Categorical perception of lexical stress: A cross-linguistic study, Poster, 15th Laboratory Phonology Conference (LabPhon), Ithaca, NY, USA, July 2016.

  • Lee, C., Richter, M., Zhang, L., Lee, C., Wartenburger, I., Höhle, B. Reference comprehension and its relation to cognitive development in children. Workshop on “The role of pragmatic factors in child language processing”, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. May, 2016.

  • Tamási, K., McKean, C., Gafos, A., & Höhle, B. Children’s sensitivity to degrees of mispronunciation: A study combining eye-tracking and pupillometry. European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy, Jan 2016.

  • Tamási, K., McKean, C., Gafos, A. & Höhle, B. Mispronunciation detection with pupillometry: A window to study lexical representations. Child Language Symposium, University of Warwick, UK, July 2015.

  • Tamási, K., McKean, C., Gafos, A. & Höhle, B. Using implicit naming to study early lexical representations. International Child Phonology Conference, Memoria University of Newfoundland, Canada, June 2015.

  • Richter, M., Zhang, L., Lee, C., Höhle, B., Wartenburger, I. When perspective taking takes place – evidence from the referential communication game. Annual Meeting Xprag.de, Göttingen, Germany. June, 2015.

  • Boll-Avetisyan, N., Bhatara, A., & Höhle, B. Effects of dyslexia and musicality on the perception of rhythmic structure. Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP) 3, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, May 28-30, 2015.

  • Boll-Avetisyan, N., Bhatara, A., & Höhle, B. Dyslexia and musicality effects on the perception of rhythmic speech, SMART Cognitive Sciences Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 25-28, 2015.

  • Fritzsche, T., Höhle, B. & Müller, A. Tracking the comprehension process in sentences with the focus particle ‘only’: Data from children and adults. 11th International Conference on General Linguistics (CILG XI); Pamplona, Spain, May 2014.

  • Bhatara, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Agus, T., Höhle, B., & Nazzi, T.: Rhythmic grouping of musical instrument sounds is affected by language experience. KNAW Conference on Diversity and Universals in Language, Culture, and Cognition, Leiden, Netherlands, Oct 2013.

  • Höhle, B. Early prosodic development and later language performance: Results from a longitudinal study from infancy to preschool age. International Congress of Linguistics. Geneva – Switzerland July 22, 2013.

  • Boll-Avetisyan, N., Bhatara, A., Unger, A., Nazzi, T. & Höhle, B. Can stress ‘deafness’ be countered after extensive exposure to an L2?, International Congress of Linguistics (ICL), Genève, Switzerland, July 2013.

  • Fritzsche, T., Müller, A., & Höhle, B. What eyetracking can reveal about the comprehension of the restrictive focus particle ‘only’: Data from children and adults. International Congress of Linguistics, Geneva, Switzerland July 2013.

  • Boll-Avetisyan, N., Bhatara, A., Unger, A., Nazzi, T. & Höhle, B. Effects of exposure on the acquisition of rhythm in adult bilinguals, Conference of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Seattle, Washington, April 2013.

  • Schröder, C., Holzgrefe, J., Wartenburger, I. & Höhle, B. (2012). The processing of prosodic boundary cues in German infants. Talk at the 13th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 13), Stuttgart on 27.7.12.

  • Höhle, B., Kutscher, V., Lekow, C., Schröder, C. & Soderstrom, M. Sensitivity to subject-verb agreement in German learning infants. International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS). Minnesota, USA, June 7-9, 2012

  • Schwytay, J. & Höhle, B. Vowels and consonants in early word learning: Evidence for positional asymmetries in German learning 20-month-olds. International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS). Minnesota, USA, June 7-9, 2012.

  • Schröder, C., Holzgrefe, J., Wartenburger, I. & Höhle, B. (2011) Perception and weighting of prosodic boundary cues: Evidence from German six- and eight-month-old infants. Talk at the 36th Boston Conference on Language Development, Boston on 4.11.11.

  • Petrone, C., Wartenburger, I., Höhle, B., Holzgrefe, J., Schröder, C. & Truckenbrodt, H. (2011) Cues for intonation phrase boundaries in German. Talk presented at the 7th annual meeting of 'Phonetik und Phonologie', Osnabrück, 7.10.11.

  • Liang, S.-Y., Cheung, H., Schwytay, J., & Höhle, B. Role of tonal and vocalic contrasts in early lexical acquisition: An investigation on Mandarin-learning 20-month-olds. Paper. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA). Thessaloniki, Greece, Sept 6-8, 2011.

  • Höhle, B., Unger, A., Gonzales Gomes, N. & Nazzi, T. Rhythmical grouping in French and German adults: A crosslinguistic investigation of the iambic trochaic law. Biennal Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Mar 31 – Apr 2, 2011.

  • Wang, H., Höhle, B. Ketrez, N., Kuntay, A, & Mintz, T. Cross-linguistic distributional analysis with frequent frames: The case of German and Turkish. 35th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Nov 5-7, 2010

  • Höhle, B., Herold, B., Grabherr, B., Walch, E. & Bührer, C. Word segmentation in 9-month-old preterm infants and later language kills. Paper.17th Biennal International Conference on Infant Studies. Baltimore, Maryland, March 11-14, 2010.

  • Chen, A., Höhle, B., Sauermann, A., Fleischhauer, E., & Järvikivi, J. Intonational marking of focus in different word orders in children. 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Los Angeles, USA, February 2010.

  • Ringmann, S., Poltrock, S. & Höhle, B. Implizite und explizite Theory of Mind bei Asperger und High-Functioning Autismus? Eine Eyetracking-Studie. 3. Wissenschaftliche Tagung Autismus-Spektrum. Frankfurt, Februar, 18-19, 2010.

  • Müller, A., Rupp, V., Schulz, P. & Höhle, B. How the understanding of focus particles develops: Evidence from child German. 32nd Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Germany (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft DGfS, Berlin 24.-26.2. 2010

  • Fritzsche, T. & Höhle, B. Looking at artificial languages - Investigating the categorization of nonsense syllables using eyetracking. Talk at the Tobii Eyetracking Conference on Psychology & Linguistic Research, Copenhagen on 25.01.2010.

  • Brandt, O.-C. & Höhle, B. Does production of verbal inflection precede comprehension? Evidence from eye-tracking. 31st Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Germany (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft DGfS), Osnabrück, March 2009.

  • Höhle, B. Syntactic categorization of new words: Distributional and morphological cues to form class. Paper. XXIX International Congress of Psychology. Berlin, 20-25 July 2008.

  • Van Kampen, A., Parmaksiz, G., & Höhle, B. Vowel harmony as a poential cue for word segmentation: Findings from German and Turkish 6- and 9-month-olds. Paper. XI Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language. Edinburgh, UK, 28. July – 1. August, 2008.

  • Brandt, O., & Höhle, B. Sensitivity to verb morphology by German toddlers: Evidence from eye-tracking. Paper. XI Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language. Edinburgh, UK, 28. July – 1. August, 2008.

  • Höhle, B., Bijeljac-Babic, R., Serres, J., Herold, B. & Nazzi, T. Monolingual and bilingual German/French learning infants’ sensitivity to lexical stress. Paper. XI Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language. Edinburgh, UK, 28. July – 1. August, 2008.

  • Höhle, B. & Ott, S. Phonological cues to the syntactic categorization of words: Evidence from German-learning 16-month-olds. Paper. XVI International Conference on Infant Studies. Vancouver, Canada, 27-29 March 2008.

  • Berger, F., Müller, A., Höhle, B. The acquisition of the additive focus particle auch ('also') in German. Paper. DGfS Annual Meeting, AG Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics, Bamberg Bamberg, 27.-29. Febr., 2008. 

  • Müller, A., Schulz, P. & Höhle, B. Pragmatic children: How children interpret sentences with and without only. Paper. DGfS Annual Meeting, AG Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics, Bamberg, 27.-29. Febr., 2008.

  • van Kampen, A., Parmaksiz, G., & Höhle, B. Metrical and statistical cues for word segmentation: The use of vowel harmony and word stress as cues to word boundaries by 6- and 9-month-old Turkish learners. Paper BUCLD (Boston University Conference on Language Development), Boston, Mass., November 2007.

  • Ott, S. & Höhle, B. The role of phonotactics on the acquisition of nouns and verbs in German-speaking children. Paper presented at the GALA 2007, Barcelona, September.

  • Van Kampen, A., Parmaksiz, G. & Höhle, B. Vowel harmony and word segmentation by 6 and 9 month old German and Turkish infants. Paper presented at the GALA 2007, September.

  • Hoffmann Bion, R.A., Höhle, B. & Schmitz, M. (2007). The role of prosody on the perception of word order differences by 14-month-old German infants. Paper presented at the 30th CLS conference, Reading (GB), 18.-20. Juli

  • Höhle, B., van de Vijver, R., & Weissenborn, J. (2007) Early word processing and later langugae performance: Data from a longterm follow-up stsudy with German children. Paper 9th European Conference on Psychological Assessment. Thessaloniki, Greece, 3-6 May 2007.

  • Hoffmann Bion, R.A., Schmitz, M. & Höhle, B. (2007). The role of prosody on the perception of word-order differences by 14-month-old German infants. Paper presented at the 16th ICPhS conference, Saarbrücken, Germany, 6.-10. August

  • Fritzsche, T., Höhle, B., & Fitch, W. T. (2007). Vowels as category cue in artificial grammar processing, Paper presented at the International Linguistic Association 52nd Annual Conference, Hunter College, CUNY, NY (USA), April.

  • Berger, F., Müller, A., Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (2006). The processing of sentences containing the focus particle auch 'also' by German 4-year-olds - An eye-tracking study. Paper presented at the Workshop On-Line Methods in Children's Language Processing at the CUNY Graduate Center, N.Y. (U.S.A), March.

  • Berger, F., Müller, A., Höhle, B.; Schmitz, M.; Weissenborn, J. (2006). The acquisition of the additive focus particle auch in German: A matter of competence or performance? Paper presented at the International Conference on Information Structure "Information Structure between Linguistic Theory and Empirical Methods", Potsdam (GER), June.

  • Berger, F., Müller, A., Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J.(2006). German 4-year-olds' comprehension of sentences containing the focus particle auch ('also'): Evidence from eye-tracking . Paper presented at the 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Child Language, Boston (U.S.A.), November.

  • Höhle, B., Schmitz, M., Müller, A. & Weissenborn, J. (2006). The Lexicon-Syntax Interface in Developing Grammar: The Role of Function Words in the Acquisition of Content Words. Paper presented at the Symposium: The Role of Function Words in Early Language development, ICIS Kyoto (Japan), Juni.

  • Müller, A., Höhle, B., Schmitz, M. & Weissenborn, J. (2005). Focus-to-stress-alignment in 4-to-5 year old German learning children. Paper presented at the GALA Conference of Language Acquisition, Sienna (Italy), September.

  • Müller, A., Höhle, B., Schmitz, M. & Weissenborn, J. (2005). How does word category and the structure of the target language influence caretakers´ strategies when teaching new nouns and verbs to 12-month-old German-learning children? Paper presented at the Conference Emergence of Linguistic Abilities (ELA), Lyon (France), Dezember.

  • Schmitz, M., Santelmann, L. & Höhle, B. The acquisition of discontinuous verbal dependencies by German 19-month-olds: Implications for cross-linguistic language processing. Paper 28th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 2003.

  • Schmitz, M., Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. How pause length influences the perception of major syntactic boundaries in 6-month-old German infants. Paper Generative Appraoches to Language Acquisition (GALA), Groningen, September 2003.

  • Höhle, B., Luther, C. & Weissenborn, J. The processing of Subject-Verb-agreement in German 18-20-month-olds with and without a risk for language impairment. Paper Child Language Seminar, Newcastle-upon-Thyne, Juli 2003.

  • Schmitz, M., Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. The influence of pause length on the perception of major syntactic boundaries. Paper Child Language Seminar, Newcastle-upon-Thyne, Juli 2003.

  • Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. Learning to detect words. Workshop on Language Acquisition. Universität München, März 2003.

  • Hofmann, M., Höhle B. & Weissenborn, J. The prosody-syntax interface in the acquisition of word order in German. 25. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. München, Februar 2003.

  • Blenn, L., Seidl, A. & Höhle, B. Recognition of Phrases in Early Language Acquisition: The Role of Morphological Markers. 27th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, November 2002.

  • Höhle, B., Weissenborn, J., Bartels, S., Herold, B. & Hofmann, M. The development of language specific prosodic competence in German infants. 9th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, University of Wisconsin, Madison, July 2002.

  • Höhle, B. Acquisition of prosody in the first year of life. Jahrestagung der DGfS, Mannheim, February 2002.

  • Höhle, B., Weissenborn, J., Kiefer, D., Schulz, A. & Schmitz, M. The origins of syntactic categorization for lexical elements. GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, Lissabon, September 2001.

  • Höhle, B., & Weissenborn, J. Processing of functional elements in early language acquisition: Evidence from German. Turku Symposium on First Language Acquisition. University of Turku, September 2000

  • Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. The origins of syntactic knowledge: Recognition of determiners in one year old German children. Paper 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, November 1999.

  • Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J Basic mechanisms of early language acquisition: From prosodic cues to syntactic knowledge. International Conference „Basic Mechanisms of Language and Language Disorders". Leipzig, September 1999.

  • Höhle, B., Weissenborn, J., Ischebeck, A. & Schmitz, M. Prosodic bootstrapping into language specific word order. GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition) Potsdam, September 1999.

  • Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. Sensitivity to Closed-Class Elements in Preverbal Children, 22nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, November 1996.

  • Weissenborn, J., Höhle, B., Kiefer, D. and Cavar, D. Children’s Sensitivity to Word-Order Violations in German: Evidence for very Early Parameter-Setting, 22nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, November 1996.

  • Höhle, B. Zur Rolle der Silbe in der Sprachperzeption: Befunde zum Deutschen, Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Göttingen, February 1994.

  • Höhle, B. & Schriefers, H. Ambisyllabizität im Deutschen: Psycholinguistische Evidenz, 29th Linguistisches Kolloquium, Aarhus, August 1994.

  • Höhle, B., Müller, C. & Heineke, B. Spontane Verwendung von Gesten in der Aphasie, Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Aphasieforschung und -behandlung, Düsseldorf, November 1994.

  • Höhle, B. Produktion flektierter Verbformen bei Broca- und Wernicke-Aphasikern, Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Aphasieforschung und -behandlung, Amsterdam, November 1991.

    Peer reviewed Poster

  • Marimon, M., Dos Santos, M., Nazzi, T. & Höhle, B. Word segmentation cues: Prosody or statistics? Evidence from French. 4th Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD), Potsdam, June 2019.

  • Sander, J., Höhle, B., Altvater-Mackensen, N. & Noray, A. Gaze dynamics during infants’ vocal development. 4th Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD), Potsdam, June 2019.

  • Van der Kant, A., Ren, J., Paul, M., Männel, C., Friederici, A., Höhle, B. & Wartenburger, I. The role of the PFC in the sensitive period for implicit non-adjacent dependency learning in early childhood. 4th Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD), Potsdam, June 2019.

  • Boll-Avetisyan, N., van Ommen, S., Nazzi, T., & Höhle, B. Categorical perception of lexical stress in French L2 learners of German: Effects of musical acuity. BUCLD 43, Nov 2018.

  • Boll-Avetisyan, N., van Ommen, S., Nazzi, T., & Höhle, B. Lexical stress discrimination by simultaneous and late bilinguals. International Symposium on Bilingualism and Cognition, Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani – KK Birla Campus Goa, India, Nov 2018.

  • Garcia, R., Roeser, J., & Höhle, B. “Word order beats morphosyntax: Incremental thematic role assignment in Tagalog L1 acquisition.” 24th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Berlin, Germany, Sept 2018. 

  • Gilein, A., Marimon, M., Boll-Avetisyan, N. & Höhle, B. Electrophysiological evidence for categorical perception of word stress. MMN2018: 8th Mismatch Negativity Conference, Helsinki, Finland, June 2018.

  • Ehrenhofer, L., Yatsushiro, K., Fritzsche, T., Höhle, B., Lidz, J., Phillips, C., & Huang, Y. T. Verbs, not subjects, drive subject-as-agent misinterpretation in children’s comprehension of passives. 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, USA, Nov 2018.

  • Boila, C., Fritzsche, T., & Höhle, B. German children’s processing of non-canonical word order sentences: The role of temporal ambiguity. AMLaP 2018, Berlin, Germany, Sept 2018.

  • Süss, A., Fritzsche, T., Hendriks, P., & Höhle, B. Erly Sensitivity to Number Agreement: What Pupillometry Reveals about L1 Acquisition of German. AMLaP 2018, Berlin, Germany, Sept 2018.

  • Höhle, B., Fritzsche, T., & Gafos, A. Input variability in learning novel object-label pairs: How specific are beneficial effects?. XXIst International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS), Philadelphia, USA, July 2018.

  • Marimon, M., & Höhle, B. Prosody outweighs statistics: Evidence from German. XXIst International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS), Philadelphia, USA, July 2018.

  • Fritzsche, T., Gafos, A., & Höhle, B. The Beneficial Role of Variability for Acquiring Novel Words: A Habituation Study with 14-Month-Old German-Learning Children. 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon), Lisboa, Portugal, June 2018.

  • Garcia, R., Roeser, J., & Höhle, B. “Children’s use of word order and morphosyntactic markers in Tagalog comprehension: Evidence from eye-tracking.” 31st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, California, USA ; March 2018

  • Ehrenhofer, L., Yatsushiro, K., Fritzsche, T., Höhle, B., Lidz, J., Phillips, C, & Huang, Y. T. Verbs, not subjects, drive subject-as-agent misinterpretation in children’s comprehension of passives. 31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Davis, CA, USA, March 2018

  • Boila, C., Fritzsche, T., & Höhle, B. Comprehension of sentences with the focus particle ‘only’ in Italian-learning children: Experimental methods can matter. Poster at the Nijmegen Lectures 2018, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Feb 2018.

  • Garcia, R., Roeser, J., Déry, J.E. & Höhle, B. Thematic role assignment in Tagalog acquisition: Use of word order and morphosyntactic markers. Many Paths to Language Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Oct 2017

  • Richter, M., Lee, C., Paul, M., Wartenburger, I., & Höhle, B. How common ground information affects reference resolution in children and adults: evidence from behavioral data, eye-tracking and ERPs. Annual Meeting Xprag.de, Cologne, Germany. September, 2017.

  • Männel, C., van der Kant, A., Müller, J.L., Wartenburger, I., Höhle, B. & Friederici, A. The sensitive period for associative learning of non-adjacent dependencies in the linguistic and non-linguistic domain. International Association for the Study of Child Language, Lyon, France, July 2017.

  • van Ommen, S., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Larraza, S., Wellmann, C., Bijeljac-Babic, R., Höhle, B., & Nazzi, T. Prosodic boundary perception in French: infant data and analysis of acoustic cues. 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Lyon, France, July 2017.

  • Götz, A. & Höhle, B. Perceptual reorganization of lexical tones in German-learning infants and toddlers. 3rd Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD), Bilbao, Spain, June 2017.

  • Marimon, M. & Höhle, B. Test-retest reliablity of the headturn preference procedure. 3rd Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD), Bilbao, Spain, June 2017.

  • Marimon, M. & Höhle, B. Prosody outweighs statistics: Evidence from German. International Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning, Bilbao, Spain, June 2017.

  • Van der Kant, A., Männel, C., Paul, Mariella, Höhle, B., Friederici, A. & Wartenburger, I. Adult processing of non-adjacent dependencies in the linguistic and non-linguistic domain. Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning, Bilbao, Spain, June 2017.

  • Ehrenhofer, L., Yatsushiro, K., Fritzsche, T., Höhle, B., Lidz, J., Phillips, C. & Huang, Y. T. Word order does not influence German five-year-olds’ interpretation of passives, 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA, USA, Mar 2017.

  • Götz, A., Krasotkina, A., Höhle, B., Kubicek, C. & Schwarzer, G. Perceptual narrowing in speech and face recognition in infancy. 50. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Leipzig, Sept 2016.

  • Richter, M., Zhang, L., Lee, C., , Höhle, B., & Wartenburger, I. I spy with my little eye: ERP signatures of perspective taking in referential communication. 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, London, United Kingdom. August, 2016.

  • Boll-Avetisyan, N., Larraza, S., Rose, A., Margules, S., Bijeljac-Babic, R., Nazzi, T. & Höhle, B. Categorical perception of lexical stress: A cross-linguistic study, 15th Laboratory Phonology Conference (LabPhon), Ithaca, NY, USA, July 2016.

  • Richter, M., Lee, C., Zhang, L., Höhle, B., & Wartenburger, I. How common ground information affects reference resolution in children and adults: evidence from behavioral and neurophysiological measures. Annual Meeting Xprag.de, Tübingen, Germany. June, 2016.

  • Boll-Avetisyan, N., Höhle, B. & Weißenborn, B. Stress clash avoidance by 6- to 7-month-olds, International Congress on Infant Studies (ICIS), New Orleans, May 2016..

  • Garcia, R., Sekerina, I., Déry, J.E., Roeser, J. & Höhle, B. Thematic role assignment in the L1 acquisition of Tagalog, 21st Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Valletta, Malta, Sept. 2015.

  • Fritzsche, T. & Höhle, B. Phonological and lexical mismatch detection in 30-month-olds and adults measured by pupillometry. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Glasgow, UK, Aug 2015.

  • Boll-Avetisyan, N., Abboub, N., Bhatara, A., Höhle, B., Nazzi, T.Segmentation of rhythmic speech by French and German infants, 2nd Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD), Stockholm, Sweden, June, 2015.

  • Tamási, K., McKean, C., Gafos, A. & Höhle, B. Is there a structurel difference between homorganic and heterorganic clusters? 23rd Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK; May 2015.

  • Boll-Avetisyan, N., Bhatara, A., & Höhle, B. The perception of rhythmic speech: dyslexia and musicality”, ANPOLL International Psycholinguistics Congress in Honor of Jacques Mehler, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, March, 2015.

  • Fritzsche, T. & Höhle, B. Resource allocation in a lexical task: Pupil size as indicator of phonological and semantic processing in 30-month-old children. 13th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Jul 2014.

  • Fritzsche, T., & Höhle, B. Open your eyes: Pupil size changes indicate mispronunciation detection in 30-month-old children. XIX Biennal International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS), Berlin, G, Jul 2014.

  • Tamási, K., McKean, C., Gafos, A. & Höhle, B. Using pupillometry to study lexical representations: Mispronunciation detection in onsets. 22nd Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, May 2014.

  • Höhle, B., Wellmann, C., Holzgrefe, J. & Wartenburger, I. Behavioral and ERP responses to prosodic boundaries in German learning infants: Evidence for an early adult-like cue weighting. Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD). Donostia – San Sebastian, June 2013

  • Fritzsche, T., Kedar, Y., Höhle, B., & David, D. Children’s interpretation of the function words ‘and’ and ‘with’: An eyetracking investigation. Biennal Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Seattle, USA, Apr 2013.

  • Fritzsche, T., Höhle, B., & Müller, A. The effect of inhibitory control on the offline and online interpretation of sentences with the focus particle ‘only’ in children. 11th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, Tenerife, Spain, Mar 2013.

  • Holzgrefe, J., Schröder, C., Höhle, B., & Wartenburger, I. ERPs hint at adult-like perception of prosodic boundary cues in six-month-old infants. 37th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, USA, Nov 2012.

  • Holzgrefe, J., Petrone, C., Schröder, C., Höhle, B., Truckenbrodt, H., & Wartenburger, I.). Occurrence of closure positive shift depends on boundary position: An ERP study on the perception of prosodic information in short coordinate structures. 10th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, Donostia, Spain, April 2011.

  • Bartels, S., Darcy, I. & Höhle, B. Schwa syllables facilitate word segmentation for 9-month-old German-learning infants. Paper. 33th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA., Oct/Nov 2008

  • Poltrock, S., Höhle, B. & Sauerland, U. Implicit measuring of children’s comprehension of sentences containing a complement taking mental verbs: Evidence from Eyetracking. Poster, Conference on Language, Communication and Cognition, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK, August 2008

    Invited (only personally presented)

  • Höhle, B. From sound to structure: Phonetic information in early language development. Keynote. Symposium Typical and Atypical Language Development (TALDS). Moscow, September 2019.

  • Höhle, B. Stability and variability in young children’s word recognition and word learning. Goethe Universität Frankfurt, June 2019.

  • Höhle, B. Effects of acoustic and visual variability on 14-month-olds’ word learning in the habituation-switch paradigm. University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 2019.

  • Höhle, B. Prosodic development in infancy: Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence. International Child Phonology Conference (ICPC), Chania (Greece), June 2018.

  • Höhle, B. Phonological processing in (impaired) spoken and written language. Keynote. Summerschool Predictable and Child Brain, University of Jyväskylä, June 2018.

  • Höhle, B. From Speech Input to Linguistic Knowledge. Keynote, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, Palma de Mallorca, Sept. 2017

  • Höhle, B. Phonological information in language development and language processing: How to find phonological stability in a sea of sound. Université Paris Descartes, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, March 2017

  • Höhle, B. Pupillometry as a window into toddlers’ word recognition. Macquarie University, Sydney, Feb. 2017

  • Höhle, B. First Language Acquisition: First Steps and Later Achievements. Hanse Kolleg Delmenhorst, Oct. 2016

  • Höhle, B. Rhythmus und Intonation: Zur Rolle der Prosodie im Spracherwerb. ISES, München Nov. 2014.

  • Höhle, B. Visual worlds and language acquisition at the semantics/pragmatics interface: German children’s understanding of focus particles. The 2nd Attentive Listener in the Visual World Workshop, Hyderabad, Nov. 2014.

  • Höhle, B. Rhythmic processing from infancy to adulthood. Macquarie University Sydney. Feb 2014

  • Höhle, B. Language Acquisition. Science of Aphasia. Bruxelles, Sept 2013.

  • Höhle, B. Früher Spracherwerb und Spracherwerbsstörungen. Universität Rostock, Pädiatrisches Kolloquium, July 2013.

  • Höhle, B. Phonotactics at the phonology morphology interface: Results from typical and atypical language acquisition. Utrecht University, April 2012

  • Höhle, B. Prosodie im normalen und gestörten Spracherwerb. Plenary talk, 13. Wissenschaftliches Symposium des dbs, Marburg, Jan 2012.

  • Höhle, B. Crossing the boundaries: Phonological cues to early word segmentation in German or Turkish learning infants. Newhaven U.S.A., Haskins Laboratories Nov 10, 2010

  • Höhle, B. Word segmentation in infancy revisited. University of Göttingen, Oct 2010

  • Höhle, B. What infants know about prosody. Cologne International Workshop on Prosody, University of Cologne, June, 2010

  • Höhle, B. Word categorization by the assistance of frequent frames. University Paris Descartes, Paris, France, May 2010

  • Höhle, B., Poltrock, S. & Fritzsche, T. Developmental Factors in Eyetracking Studies. Paper, Eyetracking and (A)typical Language Acquisition: Designing, Implementing, and Interpreting, Université Francois Rabelais, Tours, France, Dec 2009

  • Höhle, B. Early speech perception and later language development. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, March 2009.

  • Höhle, B. Production and comprehension of the German focus particle auch. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg , Canada, March 2009.

  • Höhle, B. Phonologieerwerb im ersten Lebensjahr. Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Nov 209

  • Höhle, B., Weissenborn, J., Berger, F., Müller, A. & Schmitz, M. (2007). Developmental Asymmetries in the Production and Comprehension of the German Focus Particle AUCH (also): Interpretative or Processing Difficulties? Workshop on Information Structure in Adult and Child Language, MPI für Psycholinguistic, Nijmegen (The Netherlands) March, 2007

  • Höhle, B. The Headturn-Paradigm. Workshop Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Nov 2003.

  • Höhle, B. Elicited Imitation. Workshop Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Nov 2003.

  • Höhle, B. Indikatoren für den Erwerb zielsprachlichen Wissens in der frühen Sprachperzeption. Universität Marburg, Jan 2003.

  • Höhle, B., Weissenborn, J., Bartels, S., Herold, B. & Hofmann, M. Behavioral indicators for the discrimination of stress patterns in 16-week-olds: A study with the headturn preference paradigm. International Workshop „From Senses to Language“. Berlin, June 2002.

  • Höhle, B. Language acquisition in infancy, Psychological Colloquium, University of Sunderland, UK, Dec 2001.

  • Höhle, B. Functional elements in early language aquisition, Colloquium of the Linguistics Department. University of Essex, UK, Dec 2001.

  • Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. The origins of lexical representations for function words: Identification of unstressed elements by 7-12 months-old German-learning infants. Stanford University, CA, USA, April 2000.

  • Höhle, B & Weissenborn, J. The developing lexicon: The emergence of lexical representations for functional elements. International Workshop "Development and Interaction of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Cognition in Infants", Berlin, February 2000.

  • Höhle, B. Erkennung von Closed-Class-Elementen im frühen Spracherwerb, Zentrum für Kognitionswissenschaften, Universität Leipzig, Oct 1998.

  • Höhle, B. Phonologische Information in der Sprachverarbeitung, Kognitionswissenschaftliches Kolloquium, Freie Universität Berlin, Jan 1994.

  • Höhle, B. Die Silbe als Einheit der Sprachwahrnehmung, Plenarvortrag auf der Sommerschule „Sprache und Kognition", Saarbrücken, Aug 1994.

    Invited Talks: General Public and Non-Scientific Professional Audience

  • Höhle, B. Gute Bindung = Gute Sprache? Netzwerk Gesunde Kinder Brandenburg, Potsdam, Nov. 2017

  • Höhle, B. Frühindikatoren sprachlicher Entwicklungsrisiken. Sozialpädiatrisches Zentrum des Klinikums Cottbus, März 2014.

  • Höhle, B. Signale der Sprachstruktur: Verarbeitung von Prosodie und Rhythmus im frühen Spracherwerb. 4. Berliner AVT Tagung, Jan 25-26, 2013

  • Höhle, B. Frühkindlicher Spracherwerb. Mittwochsbildung, Die Gemeinnützige. Lübeck, Mai 2011.

  • Höhle, B. Früher (Fremd)Spracherwerb in der Grundschule. OECD/CERI Regionalkonferenz, Graz, 11.11.09


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