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Von Holzen, Katie, Dr.

Dr. Katie Von Holzen, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Bienroder Weg 80, Room 228
Tel.: +49 (0)531/391 8706
Fax: +49 (0)531/391 8713
k.von-holzen(at)tu-braunschweig.de
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2022 - present wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, English Linguistics (Englische Sprachwissenschaft), TU Braunschweig
2019 - 2022 Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin), German Linguistics (Lehrstuhl Linguistik des Deutschen), TU Dortmund
2017 - 2019 Postdoctoral Researcher, Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, USA
2014 - 2017 Postdoctoral Researcher, Speech Group (Laboratorire Psychologie de la Perception), Université Paris Descartes, France
2013 Dr. rer. nat. Psychology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
2010 - 2013 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (PhD Student), Junior Research Group “Language Acquisition”, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
2009 Bachelor of Science, Psychology, University of Wisconsin – Green Bay
2006 - 2009 student of Psychology, Human Development, and German at the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay
Research and Teaching

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

 

Publications

Journal Papers

  • 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.
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