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Westermann, G., & Mani, N. Early Word Learning. Current Issues in Developmental Psychology series. Taylor and Francis.

In press
Bobb, S., Huettig, F., & Mani, N. Predicting visual information during sentence processing: Toddlers activate

an object's shape before it is mentioned. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Altvater-Mackensen, N., Mani, N., & Grossmann, T. Audiovisual speech perception in infancy: The influence of vowel

identity and infants' productive abilities on sensitivity to (mis)matches between auditory and visual speech

cues. Developmental Psychology.
Mani, N, Daum, M.M., & Huettig, F. "Pro-active" in many ways: Developmental evidence for a dynamic pluralistic

approach to prediction. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

2015
Huettig, F., & Mani, N. Is prediction necessary to understand language? Probably not. Language, Cognition and

Neuroscience, doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1072223
Altvater-Mackensen, N., & Mani, N. Phonological features mediate object-label retrieval and word recognition in the visual

world paradigm. In Mishra, R. K.,Srinivasan, N., & Huettig, F. (Eds.) Attention and Vision in Language Processing.

Springer.

2014
Von Holzen, K., & Mani, N. Bilinguals implicitly name objects in both their languages: an ERP study. Frontiers in

Psychology, 5, 1415.
Mani, N, & Huettig, F. Word reading skill predicts anticipation of upcoming spoken language input: a study of children

developing proficiency in reading. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 126, 264-279.

2013
Altvater-Mackensen, N., & Mani, N. Word-form familiarity bootstraps infant speech segmentation. Developmental Science,

16, 980-990.
Altvater-Mackensen, N., & Mani, N. The impact of mispronunciations on toddler word recognition: Evidence for cascaded

activation of semantically related words from mispronunciations of familiar words. Infancy, 18, 1030-1052.
Altvater-Mackensen, N., & Mani, N. Effects of pre-exposure to object and label during word learning. In S. Baiz (Ed.),

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Sommerville, MA:

Cascadilla Press, 13-23.
Bobb, S.C., & Mani, N. Categorizing with gender: Does implicit grammatical gender affect semantic processing in 24-

month-old toddlers? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology., 115, 297-308.
Mani, N., Johnson, E., McQueen, J.M., & Huettig, F. How yellow is your banana? Toddlers' language-mediated visual

search in referent-present tasks. Developmental Psychology, 49, 1036-1044.
Mani, N., & Schneider, S. Speaker identity supports phonetic category learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human

Perception and Performance,39, 623-629.
Mani, N., & Huettig, F. Towards a complete multiple-mechanism account of predictive language processing: Commentary

on Pickering & Garrod. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 365-366.
Skoruppa, K., Mani, N., Plunkett, K., Cabrol, D., & Peperkamp, S. Early word recognition in sentence context: French

and English 24-month-olds' sensitivity to sentence-medial mispronunciations and assimilations. Infancy, 18, 1007

-1029.
Skoruppa, K., Mani, N., & Peperkamp, S. Toddlers? processing of phonological assimilations: Early compensation for

assimilation in English and French.Child Development, 84, 313-330.

2012
Von Holzen, K., & Mani, N. Language non-selective lexical access in bilingual toddlers. Journal of Experimental Child

Psychology, 113, 569-86.
Mani, N., & Huettig, F. Prediction during language processing is a piece of cake - but only for skilled producers. Journal of

Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38, 843-847.
Mani, N. Durrant, S., & Floccia, C. Activation of phonological and semantic codes in toddlers. Journal of Memory and Language,

66, 612-622.
Mani, N., Mills, D., & Plunkett, K. Vowels in early words: An event-related potential study. Developmental Science, 15, 2-11.

2011
Mani, N., & Plunkett. K. Phonological priming and cohort effects in toddlers. Cognition, 121, 196-206.
Mani, N. Phonological acquisition. In Kula, Botma & Nasukawa (eds.) The Continuum Companion to Phonology,

Continuum, London UK, 278-297.
Braun, B., Lemhöfer, K., & Mani, N. Perceiving word stress in foreign-accented English. Journal of the Acoustical Society

of America, 129, 376-387.
Altvater-Mackensen, N., & Mani, N. Bilinguals activate words from both languages when listening to spoken sentences: Evidence

from an ERP-study. Proceedings of the Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,1382-1387.

2010
Mani, N., & Plunkett, K. In the infant?s mind?s ear: Evidence for implicit naming in infancy. Psychological Science., 21, 908-913.
Mani, N., & Plunkett, K. Does size matter?: Graded sensitivity to vowel mispronunciations of familiar words. Journal of Child

Language, 38, 606-627.
Mani, N., & Plunkett, K. 12-month-olds know their cups from their keps and tups. Infancy, 15, 445-470.
Mani, N. When cup primes dog: Phono-semantic priming in the toddler lexicon. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Boston

University Conference on Language Development, Cascadilla Press, Boston, 291-302.
Mani, N. The role of prosodic prominence in disambiguating word pairs. Oxford Working Papers in Linguistics, Phonetics

and Philology, 12, 57-73.

2008
Mani, N., & Plunkett, K. 14-month-olds pay attention to vowels in novel words. Developmental Science, 11, 53-59. .
Mani, N., Coleman, J., & Plunkett, K. Phonological specificity of vocalic features at 18-months. Language and Speech, 51, 3-21.
Mani, N., & Plunkett. K. Graded sensitivity to mispronunciations of vocalic features in early words. Proceedings of the 32nd

Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Cascadilla Press, Boston, 263-274.
Mani, N. & Plunkett, K. Phonological priming in infancy. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science

Society, Washington, USA.

2007
Mani, N. & Plunkett, K. Phonological specificity of consonants and vowels in early lexical representations. Journal of Memory

and Language, 57, 252-272.

2004
Mani, N. The role of prosody in parsing ambiguous sentences. Speech Prosody, pp. 301-304.
Mani, N. Prosody and syntax in parsing ambiguous sentences. Proceedings of the 13th Manchester PG Linguistics

Conference, 89-95.

Dissertation
Mani, N. (2006). The Role of Prosody in Parsing Ambiguous Sentences. Doctoral Dissertation: Oxford.

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