Journal Articles

Boll-Avetisyan, N., Shandala, A., & Langus, A. (resubmitted). Infants rhythmic body movements to rhythmic speech. Frontiers in Psychology

Carmo, J.C., Langus, A., & Filipe, C.N. (resubmitted). Auditory and visual perception of speech rhythm: a comparison of European Portuguese speaking adults with and without autism spectrum disorder. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders.

Marimon, M., Langus, A. & Höhle, B. (2024). Prosody outweighs statistics in 6-month-old German-learning infants' speech segmentation. Infancy. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12593

Carmo, J.C., Langus, A., & Filipe, C.N. (2023). Editorial: On the insistence of considering impairments at response initiation in autism as a solid hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychology: Developmental Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1281336

Saksida, A. & Langus, A. (2023). Label-referent mapping and disambiguation in 4-month-old infants. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13993

Paper of the month Research Area Cognitive Sciences, University of Potsdam (September 2023)

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

Paper of the month Research Area Cognitive Sciences, University of Potsdam (March 2023)

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

Paper of the month Research Area Cognitive Sciences, University of Potsdam (March 2022)

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

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  https://osf.io/rmn5x/

Paper of the month Research Area Cognitive Sciences, University of Potsdam (June 2021)

Langus, A., Mehler, J., & Nespor, M. (2017). Rhythm in language acquisition. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 8, 158-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.12.012

Endress, A.D. & Langus, A. (2017). Transitional probabilities count more than frequency, but might not be used for memorization. Cognitive Psychology, 92, 37-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2016.11.004

Hochmann, J-R, Langus, A., & Mehler, J. (2016). An advantage for perceptual edges in young infants’ memory for speech. Language Learning, 66, 13-28. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12202

Langus, A., Seyed Allaei, S., Uysal, E., et al., (2016). Listening natively across perceptual domains. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(7):1127-1139. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000226

Peña, M., Langus, A., et al., (2016). Rhythm on your lips. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1708. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01708

Saksida, A., Langus, A., & Nespor, M. (2016). Co-occurrence statistics as a language-dependent cue for speech segmentation. Developmental Science, 20(3), e12390. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12390

Langus, A., Saksida, A., Sala, M., Nespor, M. (2015). Spontaneous object/action representations in 4-month-old infants and White Swiss Mice. Cognition, 137, 37-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.12.010

Marno, H., Langus, A., Goksel, A., Seyed-Allaei, S. & Nespor, M. (2015) Word order preference with a new lexicon. Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 6, n. 01183. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01183

Guellai, B., Langus, A., Nespor, M. (2014). Prosody in the hands of the speaker. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:700. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00700

Langus, A. & Nespor, M. (2013). Language development in infants: What do humans hear in the first months of life? Hearing, Balance and Communication, 11, 121-129. https://doi.org/10.3109/21695717.2013.817133

Braida, D., Donzelli, A., Martucci, R., Ponzoni, L., Pauletti, A., Langus, A., & Sala, M. (2013). Mice discriminate between stationary and moving 2D shapes: application to the object recognition task to increase attention. Behavioural Brain Research, 242, 95-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2012.12.040

Civai, C. & Langus, A. (2012). In medio stat virtus. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31 (1), 22-23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X11001208

Langus, A., Marchetto, E., Bion, A.H., & Nespor, M. (2012). Can prosody be used to discover hierarchical structure in continuous speech? Journal of Memory and Language, 66, 285-306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2011.09.004

Langus, A. & Nespor, M. (2010). Cognitive systems struggling for order. Cognitive Psychology, 60, 291–318. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2010.01.004

Book Chapter

Langus, A., Marimon, M., Höhle, B. (to appear). Exploring speech perception from infancy to adulthood with pupillometry. In L. Meyer & A. Strauss (Eds.) Rhythms of Speech and Language, Cambridge University Press.

Nespor, M. & Langus, A. (2020). Rhythm and L2 Acquisition. In A. Cardinaletti, C. Branchini, G. Giusti & F. Volpato (Eds.) Language Acquisition, Processing and Bilingualism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (pp.2-12). [link]

Langus, A. & Nespor, M. (2015). The cognitive basis of grammar. In M. van Oostendorp & H. van Riemsdijk (Eds.) Representing Structure in Phonology and Syntax, Mouton de Gruyter. [link]

Langus, A., Nespor, M., & Scharff, C. (2013). FoxP2 and deep homology in the evolution of birdsong and human language. In Botha, R. Everaert M. (Eds.). The Evolutionary Emergence of Language, Oxford University Press. [link]

Dissertation

Langus, A. (2010). Struggling For Structure. SISSA - International School for Advanced Studies. Trieste, Italy.

Recent conference presentations

Langus, A.,  (November, 27, 2023). Pupillary entrainment as a measure of rhythm in language acquisition. ISC Marc Jeannerod, Lyon.

Langus, A., Gafos, A., & Höhle, B.  (November, 2-5, 2023). Effects of uncertainty on word learning in 2-year-old infants and adults. The 48th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. https://www.bu.edu/bucld/

Saksida, A., Marimon, M., & Langus, A. (November, 2-5, 2023). Rapid label-referent mapping with vocoded speech in young infants. The 48th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. https://www.bu.edu/bucld/ 

Marimon, M. & Langus, A. (November, 2-5, 2023). Do toddlers learn words from a social robot?! The 48th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. https://www.bu.edu/bucld/ 

Boll-Avetisyan, N. & Langus, A. (July, 27-28, 2023). Language and Music in the Crib: Early cross-domain effects of experience on categorical perception of lexical stress. Musical Minds, Konstanz, Germany. http://musicalmindsworkshop.de/

Knabe, M., Fritzsche, T., Langus, A., Hullebus, M., Gafos, A., &  Höhle, B. (January 5-7, 2023). The effect of interleaving on minimal pair word learning in 14-month-old infants. Budapest Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

Langus, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., van Ommen, S., & Nazzi, T. (September 5-8, 2022). Language and music in the crib: Early cross-domain effects on rhythmic entrainment and categorical perception of prominence. Joint Conference on Language Evolution, Kanazawa, Japan. [Link]

Langus, A. & Höhle, B. (September 5-8, 2022). Pupillary synchrony with natural speech reveals rhythmic differences between languages. Joint Conference on Language Evolution, Kanazawa, Japan. [Link]

Langus, A., Marimon, M., & Höhle, B. (July 7-10, 2022). Effects of speech register and cross-linguistic variation on speech segmentation with statistical cues. XXIII International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) 2022: Developmental Cascades, Ottawa, Canada. [Link]

Boll-Avetisyan, N., Langus, A., Guhl, A.S., & Marimon. M. (July 7-10, 2022). A test toy with buttons for revealing infants' auditory preferences. XXIII International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) 2022, Ottawa, Canada. [Link]

Boll-Avetisyan, N., Marimon. M., Langus, A., & Guhl, A.S. (June 9-11, 2022). A Baby Test Toy as a new method for testing infants’ auditory preferences. WILD - Workshop on Infant Language Development 2022, San Sebastian, Spain. [Link]

Langus, A. & Höhle, B. (23.-25. February, 2022). Pupillary entrainment to natural speech reveals rhythmic differences between languages. 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS). University of Tuebingen.

Marimon, M., Höhle, B., & Langus, A. (December, 2021). Pupillary entrainment in speech segmentation. 2nd Linguistweets Twitter Conference. [link] 

Langus A., Saksida, A., Marimon, M., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Höhle, B. (November, 2021). Statistical regularities in child-directed speech depend on children’s age. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 2021.

Saksida, A. & Langus, A. (November, 2021). Language-specific label-referent mapping and disambiguation in 4-month-old infants. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 2021. 

Saksida, A. & Langus, A. (August, 2021). Language-specific label-referent mapping and disambiguation in 4-month-old infants. 6th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development (LICIT).  

Langus, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., & Höhle, B. (March, 2021). Pupillary entrainment to speech rhythm. Mind Brain Body Symposium (MBB) 2021. Berlin, Germany.

Gasparini, L., Omane, P., O., Langus, A., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. (April, 2021). The Role of Consonantal Rhythm in Language Discrimination by German-learning 4-month-olds. SRCD Virtual Biennial Meeting 2021.

Langus, A., (January, 2021). Pupillary entrainment. Budapest Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCD) 2021. Symposium in Memory of Jacques Mehler.

Langus, A., Marimon, M., & Höhle, B. (July, 2020). Individual variability in pupillary entrainment predicts speech segmentation with prosodic and statistical cues in infancy. International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) 2020.  Organizer of the symposium on Entrainment in Infants with Natalie Boll-Avetisyan (Univeristy of Potsdam), Ainé Ni Choisdealbha (University of Cambridge), and Tineke Snijders (MPI Nijmegen).

Langus, A., Marimon, M., & Höhle, B. (November, 2020). Individual variability in pupillary entrainment predicts speech segmentation with prosodic and statistical cues in infancy. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 2020.

Langus, A., Marimon, M., & Höhle, B. Pupillary entrainment in speech segmentation by infants. Seventh annual Summer Neurolinguistics School, Center for Language and Brain, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, Russia, for our 22-24 June 2020.

Gasparini, L., Langus, A., Tsuji, S., & Boll-Avetisyan, N.: Quantifying the role of rhythm in infants’ language discrimination abilities: A meta-analysis. Seventh annual Summer Neurolinguistics School, Center for Language and Brain, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, Russia, for our 22-24 June 2020.

Langus, A. (June, 2019). Pupillary Oscillations. Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD) 2019. Child Language & Eyetracking: Analyses and Rationale (Clear).

Saksida, A. & Langus, A. (January, 2014). Labelling objects and movements at 4 months. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD 2014). Budapest, Hungary.

Saksida, A., Langus, A., & Nespor, M. (2014). Word segmentation beyond statistics. International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS). Berlin, Germany.

Saksida, A., Langus, A., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2013). Transitional probabilities are not used for word segmentation. Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD 2013). San Sebastian, Spain.

Langus, A. (2013). Transitional probabilities and phantom words in infants speech segmentation. Artificial Language Learning Workshop. Tübingen, Germany. 

Langus, A. & Nespor, M. (2010). Structure in gestural communication. Eleventh Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. Tokyo, Japan. 

Langus, A. & Nespor, M. (2008). Word order regularities in gestural communication. 14th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2008). Cambridge, UK.

Recent poster presentation

Langus,A., Schreiner, M.S., Burmester, J., Hilton, M., Höhle, B., Elsner, B., & Wartenburger, I. (9 May, 2024). Pupillary entrainment to natural speech reveals the development of bottom-up and top-down processes in speech perception. ERC "BabyRhythm" Closing Workshop. Padova, Italy. https://lilia.dpss.psy.unipd.it/babyrhythm/

Langus, A. (11-12 January, 2024). Rapid label-referent mapping with vocoded speech in young infants. Speech in Noise, Potsdam. https://2024.speech-in-noise.eu/

Hullebus, M., Langus, A., Gafos, A., & Höhle, B.  (November, 2021). Infant preference for natural phonetic cue trading relations. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 2021.

Gasparini, L., Okyere Omane, P., Langus, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2021, April). The role of consonantal rhythm in language discrimination by German-learning 4-month-olds [Poster presentation]. Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2021 Biennial Meeting. 

Gasparini, L., Langus, A., Tsuji, S., & Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2020, October). Quantifying the role of rhythm in infants’ language discrimination abilities: A meta-analysis. Many Paths to Language (MPaL), Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Hullebus, M., Langus, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Höhle, B., & Gafos, A. (2020, July). Speaker-specific representations of within-category variability in voicing cues in nine-month-olds. International Congress on Infant Studies (ICIS) 2020.

Langus, A., Saksida, A., & Nespor, M. (2014). Logical inference in mapping labels to spontaneous object / movement representations in 4-month-old infants. International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS). Berlin, Germany.

Langus, A. (2012). Workshop on Cognitive Modules and Interfaces, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.

Langus, A. & Nespor, A. (2009). Workshop on Cognition and Evolution, Rovereto, Italy.

Langus, A., Saksida, A., & Nespor, M. (2008). Object perception and labelling in young infants. ICP Congress 2008" XXIX International Congress of Psychology. Berlin, Germany.