Work submitted or under review in peer-reviewed journals
Babineau, M., Fiévet, A.-C., & Christophe, A. (in prep). Synergies in early syntactic and semantic acquisition: 11-month-olds can build syntactic expectations about newly learned nouns.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
2025 or accepted
Kosie, J.,...Babineau, M.,... et al. (Stage 1 Registered Report, principle acceptance). ManyBabies5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time. Nature Human Behaviour.
Kolberg, L., Babineau, M., Barbir, M., de Carvalho, A., & Christophe, A. (accepted). Prosody. In the Handbook of Perceptual Development. Oxford University Press. [pdf]
2024
Babineau*, M., Barbir*, M., de Carvalho, A., Havron, N., Dautriche, I, & Christophe, A. (2024). Syntactic bootstrapping as a mechanism for language learning. Nature Reviews Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-024-00317-w
2023
Barbir, M., Babineau, M., Fiévet, A.-C., & Christophe, A. (2023). Rapid Infant Learning of Syntactic-Semantic Links. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 120 (1) e2209153119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209153119
Havron*, N., de Carvalho*, A., Babineau, M., Barbir, M., Dautriche, I., & Christophe, A. (2023). There might be more to being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping: A look at grammatical person and prosody in naturalistic child-directed speech. Journal of Child Language, 50(5), 1074-1078. doi:10.1017/S0305000923000181
Babineau, M., Emond, E., & Shi, R. (2023). When language-general and language-specific processes are in conflict: The case of sub-syllabic word segmentation in toddlers. Infancy, 28(2), 301-321. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/infa.12510
Babineau*, M., Havron*, N., Dautriche, I., de Carvalho, A., & Christophe, A. (2023). Learning to predict and predicting to learn: Before and beyond the syntactic bootstrapper. Language Acquisition, 30:3-4, 337-360. (preprint) https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2022.2078211
2022
Babineau, M., & Christophe, A. (2022). Preverbal infants' sensitivity to grammatical dependencies. Infancy, 27 (4), 648-662. http://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12466 *Link to OSF page
Kartushina, N., et al. (2022). COVID-19 first lockdown as a unique window into language acquisition: Associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains. Language Development Research, 2 (1), 1-36. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.34842/abym-xv34
2021
Havron, N., Babineau, M., Fiévet, A.-C., de Carvalho, A., & Christophe, A. (2021). Syntactic expectation adaptation accounts for language processing and language learning. Language Learning. 71 (4), 1194-1221. Preprint. http://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12466 *Link to OSF page
Babineau, M., Legrand, C., & Shi, R. (2021). Variable forms in French-learning toddlers’ lexical representations. Developmental Psychology. 57(4), 457–470. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001157 *Link to paper *Link to OSF page
Kolberg, L., de Carvalho, A., Babineau, M., Havron, N., Fiévet, A.-C., Abaurre, B., & Christophe,A. (2021). “The tiger is hitting! The duck too!” 3-year-olds can use prosodic information to constrain their interpretation of ellipsis. Cognition, 213, 104626. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104626 *Link to OSF page
Havron, N.*, Babineau*, M., & Christophe, A. (2021). 18-month-olds fail to use recent experience to infer the syntactic category of novel words. Developmental Science, 24(2), e13030. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13030 *Link to OSF registered report page
Babineau, M., de Carvalho, A., Trueswell, J., & Christophe, A. (2021). Familiar words can serve as a semantic seed for syntactic bootstrapping. Developmental Science, 24, e13010. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13010 *Link to paper *Link to OSF page
2020
Babineau, M., Shi, R., & Christophe, A. (2020). 14-month-olds exploit verbs’ syntactic contexts to build expectations about novel words. Infancy, 25 (5), 719-733. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12354 *Link to OSF page
2019
de Carvalho, A., Babineau, M., Trueswell, J., Waxman, S., & Christophe, A. (2019). Studying the real-time interpretation of novel noun and verb meanings in young children. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 274. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00274 *Link to OSF page
2014-2017
Babineau, M., Shi, R., & Achim, A. (2017). Contextual factors in lexical processing: the case of French liaison. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 32, 457-470. DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2016.1239022
Babineau, M., & Shi, R. (2016). Development of liaison representation and its top-down influence on word processing in infants. Language Learning and Development, 12, 482-498. DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2016.1170604
Saint-Aubin, J., Klein, R. M., Babineau, M., Christie, J., & Gow, D. W. (2016). The Missing-Phoneme Effect in Aural Prose Comprehension. Psychological Science, 27 (7), 1019-1026. DOI: 10.1177/0956797616645096
Babineau, M., & Shi, R. (2014). Distributional cues and the onset bias in early word segmentation. Developmental Psychology, 50(12), 2666-2674. DOI: 10.1037/a0038105
Peer-reviewed conference proceedings
Babineau, M. & Peperkamp, S. (2017). L'acquisition du langage chez le bébé. In: L'éducation à la lumière des neurosciences. Actes du 12ème colloque Petite Enfance. Genève : Service de la petite enfance, 55-62. * Link to paper
Babineau, M., Shi, R., & Melançon, A. (2015). The role of function words and prosody for phrasal parsing in preverbal infants. In BUCLD 39: A supplement to the proceedings of the 39th annual Boston University conference on language development. 1-19. (pdf)
Babineau, M., & Shi, R. (2013). Ambiguity related to French liaisons: The role of bottom-up and top-down processes. In Proceedings of the 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Vol. 19, 060123, 1-8. DOI: 10.1121/1.4805872 (pdf)
Babineau, M., & Shi, R. (2013). Acoustical cues versus top-down bias in infants’ parsing. In Proceedings of the 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Vol. 19, 060073, 1-7. DOI: 10.1121/1.4805623 (pdf)
Babineau, M., & Shi, R. (2011). Processing of French liaisons in toddlers. In BUCLD 35: Proceedings of the 35th annual Boston University conference on language development. Boston, MA: Cascadilla Press, Vol. 1, 25-37. (pdf)
Blog post written by the Babineau Lab
Jung*, K., Meleca*, M., Suhan*, S., Tan*, A., Wang*, L. Y., & Babineau, M. (June 2022). Expect the Unexpected: Studying Language Acquisition in Small-Scale Societies. ICIS Babyblog - Infancy Research Around the World.
Work in preparation
Zettersten, M., Cao, A., Von Holzen, K., Babineau, M., Kosie, J., Mather, E., Shinskey, J. L., Powell, L., Zupan, Z., & Testerman, M. (preregistration). A systematic review of infant looking time preferences for novel vs. familiar stimuli.