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38
Citations
6051
World Ranking
5956
National Ranking
66

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Anne Christophe is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure in France. Their research primarily engages with the field of psychology, with a specific focus on developmental and educational psychology. They have contributed significant work related to language development and disorders, reading and literacy development, child and animal learning development, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, language and cultural evolution, and aspects of syntax, semantics, and linguistic variation.

Their publication record includes notable papers such as:

  • "14-month-olds exploit verbs' syntactic contexts to build expectations about novel words" (2020, Infancy)
  • "Familiar words can serve as a semantic seed for syntactic bootstrapping" (2020, Developmental Science)
  • "Look! It is not a bamoule!: 18- and 24-month-olds can use negative sentences to constrain their interpretation of novel word meanings" (2021, Developmental Science)
  • "Learning to predict and predicting to learn: Before and beyond the syntactic bootstrapper" (2022, Language Acquisition)
  • "Syntactic Prediction Adaptation Accounts for Language Processing and Language Learning" (2021, Language Learning)

Their work has been frequently published in several journals including Developmental Science, Infancy, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Language Acquisition, and Language Learning. The distribution of their publications shows a concentration in Developmental Science and Infancy.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Mireille Babineau, Alex de Carvalho, Naomi Havron, Isabelle Dautriche, and John C. Trueswell.

Anne Christophe's research themes revolve around understanding the mechanisms of language acquisition and processing from early infancy through developmental stages, focusing on how children utilize syntactic and semantic cues to grasp meaning and language structure. Their studies also emphasize the role of prediction and adaptation in learning, highlighting processes underlying both language processing and acquisition.

In 2016, they were recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea.

Best Publications

  • Newborns' cry melody is shaped by their native language

    Birgit Mampe;Angela D. Friederici;Anne Christophe;Kathleen Wermke

  • Do infants perceive word boundaries? An empirical study of the bootstrapping of lexical acquisition

    Anne Christophe;Emmanuel Dupoux;Josiane Bertoncini;Jacques Mehler

  • Brain Responses in 4-Month-Old Infants Are Already Language Specific

    Angela D. Friederici;Manuela Friedrich;Anne Christophe

  • Phonological phrase boundaries constrain lexical access II. Infant data

    Anne Christophe;Sharon Peperkamp;Sharon Peperkamp;Christophe Pallier;Eliza Block

  • Bootstrapping lexical and syntactic acquisition.

    Anne Christophe;Séverine Millotte;Savita Bernal;Jeffrey Lidz

  • A Neural Marker of Perceptual Consciousness in Infants

    Sid Kouider;Sid Kouider;Carsten Stahlhut;Sofie V. Gelskov;Sofie V. Gelskov;Leonardo S. Barbosa

  • Prosodic structure and syntactic acquisition: the case of the head-direction parameter

    Anne Christophe;Marina Nespor;Maria Teresa Guasti;Brit Van Ooyen

  • Perceptual adjustment to time-compressed speech: a cross-linguistic study.

    Christophe Pallier;Nuria Sebastian-Gallés;Emmanuel Dupoux;Anne Christophe

  • Perception of Prosodic Boundary Correlates by Newborn Infants.

    Anne Christophe;Jacques Mehler;Núria Sebastián-Gallés

  • Discovering words in the continuous speech stream: the role of prosody

    Anne Christophe;Ariel Gout;Sharon Peperkamp;Sharon Peperkamp;James Morgan;James Morgan

  • Selecting word order: the Rhytmic Activation Principle

    Nespor;M.-T. Guasti;A. Christophe

  • Maturation and learning of language in the first year of life.

    Jacques Mehler;Anne Christophe

  • Is Dutch native English? Linguistic analysis by 2‐month‐olds

    Anne Christophe;John Morton

  • Syntax Constrains the Acquisition of Verb Meaning

    Savita Bernal;Jeffrey Lidz;Séverine Millotte

  • Language-specific stress perception by 9-month-old French and Spanish infants.

    Katrin Skoruppa;Katrin Skoruppa;Ferran Pons;Anne Christophe;Anne Christophe;Laura Bosch

  • Attentional Allocation within the Syllabic Structure of Spoken Words

    C. Pallier;N. Sebastiangalles;T. Felguera;A. Christophe

  • Categorizing words using 'frequent frames': what cross-linguistic analyses reveal about distributional acquisition strategies.

    Emmanuel Chemla;Toben H. Mintz;Savita Bernal;Anne Christophe

  • Understanding compressed sentences: the role of rhythm and meaning.

    Jacques Mehler;Nuria Sebastian;Gerry Altmann;Emmanuel Dupoux;Emmanuel Dupoux

  • Phonological knowledge in compensation for native and non-native assimilation

    Isabelle Darcy;Franck Ramus;Anne Christophe;Katherine Kinzler

  • Learning novel phonological neighbors: syntactic category matters

    Isabelle Dautriche;Isabelle Dautriche;Daniel Swingley;Anne Christophe;Anne Christophe

  • Language and cognition.

    Leonid Perlovsky;Kuniyoshi L. Sakai

  • Report Newborns' Cry Melody Is Shaped by Their Native Language

    Birgit Mampe;Angela D. Friederici;Anne Christophe;Kathleen Wermke

Frequent Co-Authors

Emmanuel Dupoux
Emmanuel Dupoux School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Jacques Mehler
Jacques Mehler International School for Advanced Studies
Sharon Peperkamp
Sharon Peperkamp École Normale Supérieure
Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Maria Teresa Guasti
Maria Teresa Guasti University of Milano-Bicocca
John C. Trueswell
John C. Trueswell University of Pennsylvania
Núria Sebastián-Gallés
Núria Sebastián-Gallés Pompeu Fabra University
Christophe Pallier
Christophe Pallier Grenoble Alpes University
Franck Ramus
Franck Ramus École Normale Supérieure
Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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