Von Holzen, Katie, Dr.

Research Interests

• Language Acquisition: Bilingual; First-language; Second-language; Foreign-language
• (Phono)-Lexical processing: Speech segmentation; Word/wordform recognition; Consonant bias; Mispronunciation sensitivity
• Methodology Event-Related Potentials (ERPs); Eyetracking (gaze); Eyetracking (pupillometry); Longitudinal studies
• Open Science Principles Meta-analyses; Reproducible code; Open data; Large-scale collaborations (Many Babies)

Projects:

• Principal Investigator (with Holger Hopp): "Ini-Seg - Initial foreign speech segmentation in school-aged children”, funded by DFG (2022-2025)

Teaching

• Introduction to English Linguistics
• Phono-lexical Development in Infancy
• Word segmentation: Evidence from Psycho- and Neurolinguistics
• Two Languages, One Mind: Bilingualism and its Consequences
• Introduction to German Linguistics
• Should I Buy That? Comparing Media Claims with Scientific Evidence from Brain & Behavior Research
• Language Acquisition and Processing
• Experimental Methods for Testing Language Comprehension

Journal Papers

• Von Holzen, K., & Newman, R. S. (in press). Children’s foreign word recognition at first exposure: The role of phonological similarity and utterance position. Language Learning.

• Von Holzen, K., Wulfert, S., Schnieders, M., & Hopp, H. (2025). Speech segmentation in pre-foreign language learners: An investigation of meta-linguistic and linguistic knowledge. Second Language Research, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583251348941

• Von Holzen, K., van Ommen, S., White, K., & Nazzi, T. (2023). The impact of phonological biases on mispronunciation sensitivity and novel accent adaptation. Language Learning and Development, 19(3), 303–322. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2022.2071717
• Von Holzen, K., & Bergmann, C. (2021). The development of infants′ responses to mispronunciations: A Meta-Analysis. Developmental Psychology, 57(1), 1–18. doi: 10.1037/dev0001141
• Newman, R. S., Kirby, L. A., Von Holzen, K., & Redcay, E. (2021). Read my lips ! Perception of speech in noise by preschool children with autism and the impact of watching the speaker′ s face. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 13(4), 1–20. doi: 10.1186/s11689-020-09348-9
• Raneri, D., Von Holzen, K., Newman, R., & Ratner, N. B. (2020). Change in maternal speech rate to preverbal infants over the first two years of life. Journal of Child Language, 1–13. doi: 10.1017/S030500091900093X
• Von Holzen, K., & Nazzi, T. (2020). Emergence of a consonant bias during the first year of life: New evidence from own-name recognition. Infancy, 25(3), 319–346. doi: 10.1111/infa.12331
• ManyBabiesConsortium. (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(1), 24–52. doi: 10.1177/2515245919900809
• O′Fallon, M., Von Holzen, K., & Newman, R. S. (2020). Preschoolers′ word-learning during storybook reading interactions: Comparing repeated and elaborated input. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 1–13. doi: 10.1044/2019_JSLHR-19-00189
• Bobb, S. C., Von Holzen, K., Mayor, J., Mani, N., & Carreiras, M. (2020). Co-activation of the L2 during L1 auditory processing : An ERP cross-modal priming study. Brain and Language, 203, 104739. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104739
• Von Holzen, K., Fennell, C. T., & Mani, N. (2019). The impact of cross-language phonological overlap on bilingual and monolingual toddlers′ word recognition. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. doi: 10.1017/S1366728918000597
• Von Holzen, K., Nishibayashi, L.-L., & Nazzi, T. (2018). Consonant and vowel processing in word form segmentation: An infant ERP study. Brain Sciences, 8(24), 1–15. doi: doi: 10.3390/brainsci8020024
• Nazzi, T., Poltrock, S., & Von Holzen, K. (2016). The developmental origins of the consonant bias in lexical processing. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25(4), 291–296. doi: 10.1177/0963721416655786
• Von Holzen, K., & Mani, N. (2014). Bilinguals implicitly name objects in both their languages: An ERP study. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(DEC), 1–12. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01415
• Von Holzen, K., & Mani, N. (2012). Language nonselective lexical access in bilingual toddlers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 113, 569–586. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2011.02.002

Chapters in Books

• Bobb, S. C., Drummond Nauck, L. Y., Altvater-Mackensen, N., Von Holzen, K., & Mani, N. (2016). Listening with your cohort: Do bilingual toddlers co-activate cohorts from both languages when hearing words in one language alone? In Cognitive control and consequences of multilingualism (pp. 47–69). John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Conference Proceedings

• Von Holzen, K., & Bergmann, C. (2018). A meta-analysis of infants′ mispronunciation sensitivity development. In T. T. Rogers, M. Rau, X. Zhu, & C. W. Kalish (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th annual conference of the cognitive science society (pp. 1157–1162). Cognitive Science Society, Inc.