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VIOLA

Variability's Influence on Language Acquisition

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Project "VIOLA" data sheet

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Coordinator	ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE Organization address address: 45, RUE D'ULM city: PARIS CEDEX 05 postcode: 75230 website: http://www.ens.fr contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	France [FR]
Project website	https://sites.google.com/site/chbergma/viola
Total cost	173˙076 €
EC max contribution	173˙076 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2014
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-EF-ST
Starting year	2015
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2015-09-01 to 2017-08-31

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE Organization address address: 45, RUE D'ULM city: PARIS CEDEX 05 postcode: 75230 website: http://www.ens.fr contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FR (PARIS CEDEX 05)	coordinator	173˙076.00

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Project objective

How is early language development affected by the number of speakers infants are exposed to in their daily lives? Some infants spend most of their waking time with only one person, while others hear many different speakers. These children receive quite different input. Even if the very same words are spoken, these words are pronounced very differently when not one but multiple people spoke them. Laboratory studies point to a significant effect of such variability in the context of a short experiment: When infants hear multiple speakers, their ability to recognize the same word is hampered, whereas learning sounds and words improves. It remains an open question whether long-term exposure to multiple speakers in daily life helps or hinders language acquisition, as current theories lead to opposing predictions. This project combines experimental approaches with computational modeling. It will shed unprecedented light on how speaker variability in daily life affects language development, a question that has substantial implications for theories of language acquisition and for current diagnostic practices.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2017	Christina Bergmann, Sho Tsuji, Alejandrina Cristia Top-Down versus Bottom-Up Theories of Phonological Acquisition: A Big Data Approach published pages: 2103-2107, ISSN: , DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1443	Interspeech 2017	2019-07-24
2017	Bergmann, C., Tsuji, S., Piccinini, P.E., Lewis, M.L., Braginsky, M., Frank, M.C., & Cristia, A. Promoting replicability in developmental research through meta-analyses: Insights from language acquisition research published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	Child Development	2019-07-24
2016	Christina Bergmann, Alejandrina Cristia, Emmanuel Dupoux Discriminability of sound contrasts in the face of speaker variation quantified published pages: 1331-1336, ISSN: , DOI:	Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society	2019-07-24
2017	Bergmann, C. & Cristia, A. Environmental influences on infantsâ€™ native vowel discrimination: The case of talker number in daily life published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/WPGJM	Infancy	2019-07-24
2017	A. Black & C. Bergmann. Quantifying infants\' statistical word segmentation: A meta-analysis published pages: 124-129, ISSN: , DOI:	Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society	2019-07-24

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