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Education


2013


2009


Dr. rer. nat. Psychology, magna cum laude
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

B.S. Psychology, summa cum laude
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, USA

Employment


Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Lecturer and Researcher)
English Linguistics,
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Group Lead: Prof. Dr. Holger Hopp
2022-present

Media Coordinator
International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Annick De Houwer
2023-present

Akademische Rätin (Senior Postdoc)
Lehrstuhl Linguistik des Deutschen,
Schwerpunkt Deutsch als Fremdsprache/Deutsch als Zweitsprache
Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
Group Lead: Prof. Dr. Sarah Schimke
2019-2022

Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
University of Maryland, USA
Mentor: Dr. Rochelle Newman
2017-2019

Postdoctoral Researcher
Speech Group, Laboratorire Psychologie de la Perception
Université Paris Descartes, France
Mentor: Dr. Thierry Nazzi
2014-2017

Scientific Staff
Junior Research Group “Language Acquisition”
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nivedita Mani
2010-2013

Summer Research Intern
Kellerton Laboratory
Dartmouth College, USA
Supervisor: Dr. Todd Heatherton
2009

Research Areas

Peer-reviewed papers

Von Holzen, K., van Ommen, S., White, K., & Nazzi, T. (2023). The impact of phonological biases on mispronunciation sensitivity and novel accent adaptation. Language Learning and Development, 19(3), 303–322. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2022.2071717
Newman, R. S., Kirby, L. A., Von Holzen, K., & Redcay, E. (2021). Read my lips ! Perception of speech in noise by preschool children with autism and the impact of watching the speaker\('\) s face. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 13(4), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-020-09348-9
Von Holzen, K., & Bergmann, C. (2021). The development of infants\('\) responses to mispronunciations: A Meta-Analysis. Developmental Psychology, 57(1), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001141
Bobb, S. C., Von Holzen, K., Mayor, J., Mani, N., & Carreiras, M. (2020). Co-activation of the L2 during L1 auditory processing : An ERP cross-modal priming study. Brain and Language, 203, 104739. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104739
ManyBabiesConsortium. (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(1), 24–52. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245919900809
O'Fallon, M., Von Holzen, K., & Newman, R. S. (2020). Preschoolers\('\) word-learning during storybook reading interactions: Comparing repeated and elaborated input. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_JSLHR-19-00189
Raneri, D., Von Holzen, K., Newman, R., & Ratner, N. B. (2020). Change in maternal speech rate to preverbal infants over the first two years of life. Journal of Child Language, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1017/S030500091900093X
Von Holzen, K., & Nazzi, T. (2020). Emergence of a consonant bias during the first year of life: New evidence from own-name recognition. Infancy, 25(3), 319–346. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12331
Von Holzen, K., Fennell, C. T., & Mani, N. (2019). The impact of cross-language phonological overlap on bilingual and monolingual toddlers\('\) word recognition. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728918000597
Von Holzen, K., Nishibayashi, L.-L., & Nazzi, T. (2018). Consonant and vowel processing in word form segmentation: An infant ERP study. Brain Sciences, 8(24), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci8020024
Nazzi, T., Poltrock, S., & Von Holzen, K. (2016). The developmental origins of the consonant bias in lexical processing. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25(4), 291–296. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721416655786
Von Holzen, K., & Mani, N. (2014). Bilinguals implicitly name objects in both their languages: An ERP study. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(DEC), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01415
Von Holzen, K., & Mani, N. (2012). Language nonselective lexical access in bilingual toddlers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 113, 569–586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2012.08.001