Anne‐caroline Fiévet

Biographic Data

ID1692047
NAMEAnne‐caroline Fiévet
GIVEN NAMESAnne‐caroline
FAMILY NAMEFiévet
SIGNATUREFIÉVET A C
AFFILIATIONSCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
ORCID0000-0001-7695-7528
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS62
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT62
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Brazilian-Portuguese-learning preschoolers use phrasal prosody to constrain their interpretation of ellipsis

    Open AccessLetícia Schiavon Kolberg, Antônio De Carvalho et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning and Development2025

  • De djos à hoes en passant par morrays et igos

    Anne‐caroline Fiévet, Anne-Caroline Fiévet et al.ARTICLERevue d Études Françaises2023

    Rap songs serve as an important vector for disseminating slang lexemes, which become part of youth identity. By cross-referencing the results of several methodologies (searches in 10 online dictionaries and questionnaires completed by 14 teenagers), we observe the circulation of 6 lexemes with different diffusion patterns. While boloss and kho are widely and since a long time known lexical items, igo and djo are considerably less known, and morra…

  • Learning to predict and predicting to learn

    Mireille Babineau, Naomi Havron et al.ARTICLELanguage Acquisition2023

    Young children can exploit the syntactic context of a novel word to narrow down its probable meaning. This is syntactic bootstrapping. A learner that uses syntactic bootstrapping to foster lexical acquisition must first have identified the semantic information that a syntactic context provides. Based on the semantic seed hypothesis, children discover the semantic predictiveness of syntactic contexts by tracking the distribution of familiar words.…

  • There might be more to syntactic bootstrapping than being pragmatic

    Open AccessNaomi Havron, Antônio De Carvalho et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2023

    In ‘Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping’, Hacquard (2022) argues that abstract syntax is useful for word learning, but that an additional cue, pragmatics, is both necessary and available for young children during the first steps of language acquisition. She focuses on modals and attitude verbs, where the physical context seems particularly impoverished as the sole basis for deriving meanings, and thus where linguistic cues may be partic…

  • Long-form recordings in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessMathilde Léon, Shoba S Meera et al.ARTICLEResearch Ethics2023

    The last decade has seen a rise in big data approaches, including in the humanities, whereby large quantities of data are collected and analysed. In this paper, we discuss long-form audio recordings that result from individuals wearing a recording device for many hours. Linguists, psychologists and anthropologists can use them, for example, to study infants’ or adults’ linguistic behaviour. In the past, recorded individuals and communities have r…

  • Learning to predict and predicting to learn

    Mireille Babineau, Naomi Havron et al.PREPRINT2022

    Young children can exploit the syntactic context of a novel word to narrow down itsprobable meaning. This is syntactic bootstrapping. A learner that uses syntacticbootstrapping to foster lexical acquisition must first have identified the semanticinformation that a syntactic context provides. Based on the semantic seed hypothesis,children discover the semantic predictiveness of syntactic contexts by tracking thedistribution of familiar words. We p…

  • Preverbal infants’ sensitivity to grammatical dependencies

    Open AccessMireille Babineau, Anne Christophe et al.ARTICLEInfancy2022

    During their first months of life, infants can already distinguish function words (e.g., pronouns and determiners) from content words (e.g., verbs and nouns). Little research has explored preverbal infants' sensitivity to the relationships between these word categories. This preregistered study examines whether French‐learning 8‐ and 11‐month‐olds track the grammatical dependencies between determiners and nouns as well as pronouns and verbs. Usin…

  • Autour de l’enseignement de la dia-variation en FLE universitaire. Le cas de la constitution d’un dictionnaire thématique à partir du corpus de rap francophone RapCor

    Alena Podhorná-Polická, Laurent Canal et al.ARTICLERevue d Études Françaises2021

    Depuis 2006, des textes de chansons de rap sont utilisés dans les séminaires de sociolexicologie et de traduction de l'Institut des langues et littératures romanes de l'Université Masaryk, afin d'enseigner la dia-variation dans des contextes authentiques, actuels et attractifs pour les étudiants. Parallèlement à ces séminaires annuels, qui visent une approche qualitative, un corpus linguistique, le RapCor, a été construit à partir des textes disp…

  • “The tiger is hitting! the duck too!” 3-year-olds can use prosodic information to constrain their interpretation of ellipsis

    Open AccessLetícia Schiavon Kolberg, Letícia Kolberg et al.ARTICLECognition2021

  • How different types of linguistic corpora shed light (or not) on various categories of substandard lexicon

    Open AccessAlena Podhorná-Polická, Anne‐caroline Fiévet et al.ARTICLEJournal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný…2021

    The arrival of WaC corpora, including Aranea family corpora, with its “close-to-spoken language” writings from different non-formal web pages brought the new options to researchers of sociolects, mainly to those who were previously obliged to observe youth collectives in its spontaneous discourses with its consequent time-consuming transcripts. Non-spontaneous spoken language from rap songs or youth film dialogues also help researchers to describ…

  • Syntactic prediction adaptation accounts for language processing and language learning

    Naomi Havron, Mireille Babineau et al.PREPRINT2021

    Previous literature has shown that children use recent input to adapt their syntactic predictions, and use these adapted predictions to infer the meaning of novel words. The current study tested whether they could use this mechanism to disambiguate words that are ambiguous between a noun and a verbinterpretation. We tested two-to-four-year-old French children using the phrase la petite followed by a homophone that could be interpreted as either a…

  • Covid-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition

    Natalia Kartushina, Nikolaus Mani et al.PREPRINT2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting closure of daycare centers worldwide, led to unprecedented changes in children’s learning environments. This period of increased time at home with caregivers, with limited access to external sources (e.g., daycares) provides a unique opportunity to examine the associations between the caregiver-child activities and children’s language development. The vocabularies of 1742 children aged 8-36 months across 1…

  • The Acquisition of Noun and Verb Categories by Bootstrapping From a Few Known Words

    Open AccessPerrine Brusini, Olga Seminck et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychology2021

    While many studies have shown that toddlers are able to detect syntactic regularities in speech, the learning mechanism allowing them to do this is still largely unclear. In this article, we use computational modeling to assess the plausibility of a context-based learning mechanism for the acquisition of nouns and verbs. We hypothesize that infants can assign basic semantic features, such as “is-an-object” and/or “is-an-action,” to the very first…

  • “ Look! It is not a bamoule! ”

    Open AccessAntônio De Carvalho, Cécile Crimon et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Science2021

    Two word-learning experiments were conducted to investigate the understanding of negative sentences in 18- and 24-month-old children. In Experiment 1, after learning that bamoule means "penguin" and pirdaling means "cartwheeling," 18-month-olds (n = 48) increased their looking times when listening to negative sentences rendered false by their visual context ("Look! It is not a bamoule!" while watching a video showing a penguin cartwheeling); howe…

  • Syntactic Prediction Adaptation Accounts for Language Processing and Language Learning

    Open AccessNaomi Havron, Mireille Babineau et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning2021Cited by: 4References: 31

    A previous study has shown that children use recent input to adapt their syntactic predictions and use these adapted predictions to infer the meaning of novel words. In the current study, we investigated whether children could use this mechanism to disambiguate words whose interpretation as a noun or a verb is ambiguous. We tested 2- to 4-year-old French children using the phrase la petite followed by a homophone that could be interpreted as eith…

  • Prosodic Bootstrapping

    Judit Gervain, Anne Christophe et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    This chapter covers theoretical frameworks and experimental findings showing that young infants are already sensitive to language prosody prenatally and can use it to learn about the lexical and morphosyntactic features of their native language(s). Specifically, the chapter first summarizes how prosody relates to the lexicon and the grammar in different languages. It then reviews empirical evidence about prosodic perception in infants. Subsequent…

  • Priming syntactic ambiguity resolution in children and adults

    Naomi Havron, Camila Scaff et al.PREPRINT2020

    Adults use their recent experience to disambiguate ambiguous sentences: Structures that haverecently been primed are favored in the resolution of different types of ambiguity, an example ofstructural priming. Research on children’s use of recent information for disambiguation is scarce.Using a forced-choice task with a tablet, we asked whether 5-6-year-old French-speakingchildren could also be primed in the resolution of attachment ambiguities, a…

  • Toddler word learning from contingent screens with and without human presence

    Sho Tsuji, Anne‐caroline Fiévet et al.PREPRINT2020

    While previous studies have documented that toddlers learn less well from passive screens than from live interaction, the rise of interactive, digital screen media opens new perspectives, since some work has shown that toddlers can learn similarly well from a human present via video chat as from live exposure. The present study aimed to disentangle the role of human presence from other aspects of social interactions on learning advantages in cont…

  • Month-Olds Fail to Use Recent Experience to Infer the Syntactic Category of Novel Words

    Naomi Havron, Mireille Babineau et al.PREPRINT2020

    Infants are able to use the contexts in which familiar words appear to guide their inferences about the syntactic category of novel words (e.g., “This is a” + “dax” -> dax = object). The current study examined whether 18-month-old infants can rapidly adapt these expectations by tracking the distribution of syntactic structures in their input. In French, la petite can be followed by both nouns (la petite balle, “the little ball”) and verbs (la pet…

  • Compensation for Phonological Assimilation in Bilingual Children

    Maria Julia Carbajal, Lamprini Chartofylaka et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning and Development2020

    We investigate bilingual children’s perception of assimilations, i.e. phonological rules by which a consonant at a word edge adopts a phonological feature of a neighboring consonant. For instance, English has place assimilation (e.g., green is pronounced with a final [m] in green pen), while French has voicing assimilation (e.g., sac is pronounced with a final [g] in sac vert “green bag”). Previous research has shown that French and English monol…

  • Month‐olds Fail to Use Recent Experience to Infer the Syntactic Category of Novel Words

    Open AccessNaomi Havron, Mireille Babineau et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Science2020

    Infants are able to use the contexts in which familiar words appear to guide their inferences about the syntactic category of novel words (e.g. 'This is a' + 'dax' -> dax = object). The current study examined whether 18-month-old infants can rapidly adapt these expectations by tracking the distribution of syntactic structures in their input. In French, la petite can be followed by both nouns (la petite balle, 'the little ball') and verbs (la peti…

  • Year-Old Children Adapt to the Reliability of Conflicting Sources of Information to Learn Novel Words

    Marion Beretti, Naomi Havron et al.PREPRINT2020

    A central challenge in language acquisition is the integration of multiple sources of information, potentially in conflict, to acquire new knowledge and adjust current linguistic representations. One way to accomplish this is to assign more weight to more reliable sources of information in context. We test the hypothesis that children adjust the weight of different sources of information during learning, considering two specific sources of inform…

  • A multi-lab study of bilingual infants

    Krista Byers-Heinlein, Angeline Tsui et al.PREPRINT2020

    From the earliest months of life, infants prefer listening to and learn better from infant-directed speech (IDS) than adult-directed speech (ADS). Yet, IDS differs within communities, across languages, and across cultures, both in form and in prevalence. This large-scale, multi-site study used the diversity of bilingual infant experiences to explore the impact of different types of linguistic experience on infants’ IDS preference. As part of the …

  • Familiar words can serve as a semantic seed for syntactic bootstrapping

    Open AccessMireille Babineau, Antônio De Carvalho et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Science2020

    Young children can exploit the syntactic context of a novel word to narrow down its probable meaning. But how do they learn which contexts are linked to which semantic features in the first place? We investigate if 3- to 4-year-old children (n = 60) can learn about a syntactic context from tracking its use with only a few familiar words. After watching a 5-min training video in which a novel function word (i.e., 'ko') replaced either personal pro…

  • Month‐olds Exploit Verbs’ Syntactic Contexts to Build Expectations About Novel Words

    Open AccessMireille Babineau, Rushen Shi et al.ARTICLEInfancy2020

    During their second year of life, infants develop a rudimentary understanding of grammatical categories based on their knowledge and use of frequent function words. The current study inquired whether, at only 14 months of age, infants can track co‐occurrence patterns between function words and content words (e.g., determiners can precede nouns, and pronouns can precede verbs), and use these previously encountered syntactic contexts to build expec…