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Thierry Nazzi is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant body of work in developmental and educational psychology, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology. Their interests extend to cognitive neuroscience, pharmacy, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health, reflecting a broad engagement with psychological and developmental sciences.

Nazzi's research covers several main topics including language development and disorders, reading and literacy development, phonetics and phonology research, child and animal learning development, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, infant health and development, and infant development and preterm care.

Their frequent publication venues include Developmental Science, Journal of Child Language, Frontiers in Psychology, Cognition, and Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. This diverse range of journals indicates a strong presence in both psychological sciences and language-related research fields.

Collaborations have been a significant aspect of Nazzi's work, with frequent coauthors including Natalie Boll-Avetisyan, Barbara Höhle, Sandrien van Ommen, Lionel Granjon, and Regine Lai, reflecting ongoing partnerships within the developmental psychology and language acquisition research community.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Nazzi are:

  • "Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference," 2020, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • "Newborns modulate their crawling in response to their native language but not another language," 2022, Developmental Science
  • "Variation in phonological bias: Bias for vowels, rather than consonants or tones in lexical processing by Cantonese-learning toddlers," 2020, Cognition
  • "Emergence of a consonant bias during the first year of life: New evidence from own-name recognition," 2020, Infancy
  • "The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross-linguistic, multi-lab report," 2023, Developmental Science

Best Publications

  • Language Discrimination by Newborns: Toward an Understanding of the Role of Rhythm

    Thierry Nazzi;Josiane Bertoncini;Jacques Mehler

  • Language Discrimination by English-Learning 5-Month-Olds: Effects of Rhythm and Familiarity

    Thierry Nazzi;Peter W Jusczyk;Elizabeth K Johnson

  • Language discrimination by newborns: Toward an understanding of the role of rhythm.

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  • A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research : Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building

    Michael C. Frank;Elika Bergelson;Christina Bergmann;Alejandrina Cristia

  • Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference

    Michael C. Frank;Katherine Jane Alcock;Natalia Arias-Trejo;Gisa Aschersleben

  • Perception and acquisition of linguistic rhythm by infants

    Thierry Nazzi;Franck Ramus

  • Use of phonetic specificity during the acquisition of new words: differences between consonants and vowels

    Thierry Nazzi

  • Language specific prosodic preferences during the first half year of life: Evidence from German and French infants

    Barbara Höhle;Ranka Bijeljac-Babic;Ranka Bijeljac-Babic;Birgit Herold;Jürgen Weissenborn

  • Coping With Linguistic Diversity: The Infant's Viewpoint

    Jacques Mehler;Emmanuel Dupoux;Thierry Nazzi;Ghislaine

  • Early segmentation of fluent speech by infants acquiring French: Emerging evidence for crosslinguistic differences

    Thierry Nazzi;Galina Iakimova;Josiane Bertoncini;Séverine Frédonie

  • Before and after the vocabulary spurt: two modes of word acquisition?

    Thierry Nazzi;Josiane Bertoncini

  • DISCRIMINATION OF PITCH CONTOURS BY NEONATES

    Thierry Nazzi;Caroline Floccia;Josiane Bertoncini

  • Six-Month-Olds' Detection of Clauses Embedded in Continuous Speech: Effects of Prosodic Well-Formedness.

    Thierry Nazzi;Deborah G Kemler Nelson;Peter W Jusczyk;Ann Marie Jusczyk

  • Linguistic and cognitive abilities in infancy: when does language become a tool for categorization?

    Thierry Nazzi;Alison Gopnik

  • Differential Processing of Consonants and Vowels in Lexical Access Through Reading

    Boris New;Verónica Araújo;Verónica Araújo;Thierry Nazzi

  • Infant ability to tell voices apart rests on language experience.

    Elizabeth K. Johnson;Ellen Westrek;Thierry Nazzi;Anne Cutler

  • English-learning infants' segmentation of verbs from fluent speech.

    Thierry Nazzi;Laura C. Dilley;Ann Marie Jusczyk;Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

  • Early Word Segmentation by Infants and Toddlers With Williams Syndrome

    Thierry Nazzi;Sarah Paterson;Annette Karmiloff-Smith

  • Prosodic grouping at birth

    Nawal Abboub;Thierry Nazzi;Judit Gervain

  • Better Processing of Consonantal Over Vocalic Information in Word Learning at 16 Months of Age

    Mélanie Havy;Thierry Nazzi

  • Bias for consonantal information over vocalic information in 30-month-olds: cross-linguistic evidence from French and English.

    Thierry Nazzi;Caroline Floccia;Bérangère Moquet;Joseph Butler

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda Polka
Linda Polka McGill University
Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik University of California, Berkeley
Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Annette Karmiloff-Smith Birkbeck, University of London
Peter W. Jusczyk
Peter W. Jusczyk Johns Hopkins University
Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler Western Sydney University
Jacques Mehler
Jacques Mehler International School for Advanced Studies
Michael C. Frank
Michael C. Frank Stanford University
Sandra R. Waxman
Sandra R. Waxman Northwestern University
J. Kiley Hamlin
J. Kiley Hamlin University of British Columbia
Franck Ramus
Franck Ramus École Normale Supérieure

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