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Key Research Interests
My research investigates the development of category learning in infants, and the role language plays in this context. In particular, I am interested in the interaction between word learning and learning about visual referents.
My work combine infant experiments (eye tracking) and computational modelling (e.g. self-organising maps) in order to investigate this question.
I am also a visiting researcher at the Language & Brain Lab, University of Oxford, where I am involved in research looking at morphophonological phenomena in Swedish and Bengali.
As part of the BlikSSt project I collaborate with Gilbert Ambrazaitis (Linnaeus University Växjö, Sweden), Anna Sara H. Romøren (OsloMet, Norway), and Susan Sayehli (University of Stockholm, Sweden) to examine the development of focus prosody in Swedish preschoolers.
Further research projects investigate 2nd language learning and phonological processing / development.
Biography
Nadja Althaus' personal website
Dr. Nadja Althaus joined the School of Psychology at UEA in 2016.
She obtained a Masters Degree in Linguistics, Computer Science and Psychology at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and a PhD in Psychology at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
She took up a lectureship at UEA after postdoctoral work at the University of Oxford, where she held the Winkler Career Development Fellowship at St Hugh's College, and was affiliated with the Department of Experimental Psychology and the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Birkbeck University of London
1 Oct 2006 → 30 Sep 2009
Award Date: 30 Jun 2010
Master of Arts, University of Tübingen
1 Oct 2000 → 30 Sep 2006
Award Date: 30 Sep 2006
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Interacting roles of phonological and visual similarity in infant word learning
1/11/17 → 1/11/21
Project: Research
Research output
- 13 Article
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Attention to the source domain of conventional metaphorical expressions: Evidence from an eye tracking study
Werkmann Horvat, A., Bolognesi, M. & Althaus, N., Oct 2023, In: Journal of Pragmatics. 215, p. 131-144 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Discovering category boundaries: The role of comparison in infants' novel category learning
Sučević, J., Althaus, N. & Plunkett, K., 1 May 2022, In: Infancy. 27, 3, p. 533-554 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Distinct orthography boosts morphophonological discrimination: Vowel raising in Bengali verb inflections
Althaus, N., Kotzor, S., Schuster, S. & Lahiri, A., May 2022, In: Cognition. 222, 104963.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Features of low functional load in mono- and bilinguals' lexical access: evidence from Swedish tonal accent
Althaus, N., Wetterlin, A. & Lahiri, A., 25 Jun 2021, In: Phonetica. 78, 3, p. 175-199 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The role of labels and motions in infant category learning
Sucevic, J., Althaus, N. & Plunkett, K., 1 May 2021, In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 205, 30 p., 105062.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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