Nivedita Mani
Research Group "Psychology of Language"
Georg-Elias-Müller Institute for Psychology
Research Interests
- Developmental Psychology
- Psycholinguistics
- Psychology
- Language Acquisition
Education and Employment
2014 - | Professor, Psychology of Language, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany |
2010 - 2014 | Junior Professor, Language Acquisition Junior Research Group, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany |
2008 - 2010 | British Academy Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University College London, UK |
2006 - 2008 | Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK |
2005 - 2006 | Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |
2006 | D.Phil., University of Oxford, UK |
Selected honours and awards
2017 | Member, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
2014 | Fritz-Behrens Stiftung Research Prize |
2008 - 2011 | British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship grant |
Selected publications
Schreiner MS, Mani N (2017). Listen up! Developmental differences in the impact of IDS on speech segmentation. Cognition 160: 98-102
Altvater-Mackensen N, Mani N (2013). Word-form familiarity bootstraps infant speech segmentation. Developmental Science 16: 980-90
Mani N, Schneider S (2013). Speaker identity supports phonetic category learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 39: 623-9
Skoruppa K, Mani N, Peperkamp S (2013). Toddlers? processing of phonological assimilations: Early compensation for assimilation in English and French. Child Development 84: 313-30
Mani N, Durrant S, Floccia C (2012). Activation of phonological and semantic codes in toddlers. Journal of Memory and Language 66: 612-22
Mani N, Huettig F (2012). Prediction is a piece of cake ? but only for skilled producers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 38: 843-7
Mani N, Mills D, Plunkett K (2012). Vowels in early words: An event-related potential study. Developmental Science 15: 2-11
Von Holzen K, Mani N (2012). Language non-selective lexical access in bilingual toddlers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 113: 569-86
Mani N, Plunkett K (2011). Phonological priming and cohort effects in toddlers. Cognition 121: 196-206
Mani N, Plunkett K (2010). In the infant?s mind?s ear: Evidence for implicit naming in 18-month-olds. Psychological Science 21: 908-13