Katie Von Holzen

Biographic Data

ID1465355
NAMEKatie Von Holzen
GIVEN NAMESKatie
FAMILY NAMEVon Holzen
SIGNATUREVON HOLZEN K
AFFILIATIONSTechnische Universität Braunschweig
ORCID0000-0001-7636-2209
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Word recognition in pre-foreign language learners: The role of form overlap

    Open AccessKatie Von Holzen, Marie Schnieders et al.ARTICLEBilingualism Language and Cognition2026

    This study tests how form overlap with the L1 influences young learners’ ability to recognize L2 words from continuous speech before they receive classroom instruction in English as a foreign language (EFL). German 6- to 9-year-olds were tested on their ability to recognize words in English utterances that overlapped in form with their German translation equivalents (e.g., cognate words, milk-Milch /mɪlk/ – /mɪlx/) or did not (e.g., non-cognate w…

  • Speech segmentation in pre-foreign language learners: An investigation of meta-linguistic and linguistic knowledge

    Open AccessKatie Von Holzen, Sophia Wulfert et al.ARTICLESecond language Research2025Cited by: 1References: 2

    This study tests young learners’ ability to segment foreign-language words before they receive classroom instruction in English as a foreign language (EFL). We focus on speech segmentation, one of the earliest hurdles in second-language (L2) acquisition, but essential to building a vocabulary in a new language. Specifically, we examine whether segmentation is influenced by individual differences in phonological awareness, the presence of first-la…

  • Children's Foreign Word Recognition at First Exposure: The Role of Phonological Similarity and Utterance Position

    Open AccessKatie Von Holzen, Robert S NewmanARTICLELanguage Learning2025References: 52

    The current study examined how children apply their phonological knowledge to recognize translation equivalents in a foreign language. Target words for recognition were either phonologically similar (cognate) or dissimilar (noncognate) to words they already knew in their first language. To examine how recognition of such words is impacted by their position in the utterance, target words were either embedded in an edge (Experiment 1) or non-edge (…

  • The Impact of Phonological Biases on Mispronunciation Sensitivity and Novel Accent Adaptation

    Katie Von Holzen, Sandrien van Ommen et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning and Development2023

    Successful word recognition requires that listeners attend to differences that are phonemic in the language while also remaining flexible to the variation introduced by different voices and accents. Previous work has demonstrated that American-English-learning 19-month-olds are able to balance these demands: although one-off one-feature mispronunciations typically disrupt English-learning toddlers’ lexical access, they no longer do after toddlers…

  • The development of infants’ responses to mispronunciations: A meta-analysis

    Open AccessKatie Von Holzen, Christina BergmannARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2021Cited by: 3

    As they develop into mature speakers of their native language, infants must not only learn words but also the sounds that make up those words. To do so, they must strike a balance between accepting speaker-dependent variation (e.g., mood, voice, accent) but appropriately rejecting variation when it (potentially) changes a word's meaning (e.g., cat vs. hat). This meta-analysis focuses on studies investigating infants' ability to detect mispronunci…

  • Co-activation of the L2 during L1 auditory processing: An ERP cross-modal priming study

    Open AccessSusan C Bobb, 功 小島 et al.ARTICLEBrain and Language2020

    Several studies have shown that unbalanced bilinguals activate both of their languages simultaneously during L2 processing; however, evidence for L2 activation while participants are tested exclusively in their L1 has been more tenuous. Here, we investigate whether bilingual participants implicitly activate the label for a picture in their two languages, and whether labels activated in L2 can prime activation of cross-linguistically related L1 le…

  • Change in maternal speech rate to preverbal infants over the first two years of life

    Open AccessDaniele RANERI, Daniele Palma Raneri et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2020

    Aims: Although IDS is typically described as slower than adult-directed speech (ADS), potential impacts of slower speech on language development have not been examined. We explored whether IDS speech rates in 42 mother–infant dyads at four time periods predicted children's language outcomes at two years. Method: We correlated IDS speech rate with child language outcomes at two years, and contrasted outcomes in dyads displaying high/low rate profi…

  • Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference

    Open AccessMichael C Frank, Katie Alcock et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Methods and Practices…2020

    Psychological scientists have become increasingly concerned with issues related to methodology and replicability, and infancy researchers in particular face specific challenges related to replicability: For example, high-powered studies are difficult to conduct, testing conditions vary across labs, and different labs have access to different infant populations. Addressing these concerns, we report on a large-scale, multisite study aimed at (a) as…

  • Emergence of a consonant bias during the first year of life: New evidence from own‐name recognition

    Open AccessKatie Von Holzen, Thierry NazziARTICLEInfancy2020

    Recent evidence suggests that during the first year of life, a preference for consonant information during lexical processing (consonant bias) emerges, at least for some languages like French. Our study investigated the factors involved in this emergence as well as the developmental consequences for variation in consonant bias emergence. In a series of experiments, we measured 5‐, 8‐, and 11‐month‐old French‐learning infants orientation times to …

  • The development of infants’ responses to mispronunciations: A Meta-Analysis

    Katie Von Holzen, Christina BergmannPREPRINT2019

    As they develop into mature speakers of their native language, infants must not only learn words but also the sounds that make up those words. To do so, they must strike a balance between accepting speaker dependent variation (e.g. mood, voice, accent), but appropriately rejecting variation when it (potentially) changes a word's meaning (e.g. cat vs. hat). This meta-analysis focuses on studies investigating infants' ability to detect mispronuncia…