Journal Articles (peer reviewed)
Havron, N., Ramus, F., Cristia, A., Heude, B., Forhan, A. & Peyre, H. (2019). The effect of siblings on language
development as a function of age difference and sex. Psychological Science, 30(9), 1333-1343. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619861436 [link]
Havron, N., de Carvalho, A., Fievet, A. C. & Christophe, A. (2019). Three- to Four-year-old children rapidly adapt their
predictions and use them to learn novel word meanings. Child Development, 90 (1), 82-90. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13113
[link]
Havron, N., Raviv, L., & Arnon, I. (2018). Literate and preliterate children show different learning patterns in an
artificial language learning task. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 2, 21-33.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s41809-018-0015-9 [link]
Havron, N., & Arnon, I. (2017b). Minding the gaps: Literacy enhances lexical segmentation in children learning to read. Journal of Child Language, 44(6), 1516-1538. doi:10.1017/S0305000916000623
Havron, N., & Arnon, I. (2017a). Reading between the words: The effect of literacy on second language lexical segmentation. Applied Psycholinguistics, 38(1), 127-153. doi:10.1017/S0142716416000138
Shapira, Y., Enosh, G., & Havron, N. (2017). What Makes Social Work Students Implement Evidence-Based Practice Behaviors? Journal of Social Work Education, 53(2), 187-200. doi:10.1080/10437797.2016.1260507
The ManyBabies Consortium (in press). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. Preprint doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/S98AB
Havron, N., Babineau, M., & Christophe, A. (registered report accepted pending data collection). Do 18 months-olds use
recent experience to infer the syntactic category of novel words? Developmental Science. [link]
Byers-Heinlein, K., et al. (registered report in principle acceptance). A multi-lab study of bilingual infants: Exploring the
preference for infant-directed speech. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. The ManyBabies Project
oderstrom M., et al. (registered report in principle acceptance). Testing the Relationship Between Preferences for Infant-Directed Speech and Vocabulary Development: A Multi-Lab Study. Journal of Child Language
Under Review Journal Articles (peer reviewed)
Havron, N., Bergmann, C. & Tsuji, S. (under revision) Preregistration in infant studies: a primer. https://psyarxiv.com/es2gx
Havron, N. & Arnon, I. (under revision). Starting big: The effect of unit-size on language learning in children and adults.
Havron, N., Carbajal, J.M., Scaff, C., Linzen, T., Barrault, A., & Christophe, A. (under revision). Priming syntactic
ambiguity resolution in children and adults.
Havron, N., Babineau, M., Fievet, A. C., de Carvalho, A., & Christophe, A. (submitted). Syntactic prediction accounts for language processing and language learning.
Berreti*, M., Havron, N. & Christophe, A. (under revision). Conflict resolution between syntactic and semantic cues in
language Acquisition.
Farabolini, G., Scaff, C., Havron, N., Stieglitz, J., & Cristia, A. (under review). Infant-directed input and literacy effects on phonology: Non-word repetition accuracy among the Tsimane.
Shapira, Y., Havron, N. & Savaya, R. (submitted). Youth at risk in social welfare agencies: Identifying practices derived from the evidence-based literature.
Articles in Preparation
Barraultj, A., Havron, N., de Carvalho, A., Dautriche, I., & Christophe, A. When predictions fail: Adults and children
stop predicting upcoming syntactic categories in unreliable contexts. [in writing]
Schiavon Kolbergs, L., de Carvalho, A. Havron, N., Babineau, M., Bernadete Marques Abaurre, M. & Chrstophe, A.
Syntactic disambiguation through prosodic cues by young infants. [in writing]
Barbir, M., Havron, N., Recht, S., Fiévet, A-C., & Christophe, A. A false friend: Translation increases confidence but
not accuracy. [in preparation].
Loukatou, G., Scaff, C. … Cristia, A. & Havron, N. Siblings and peer speech across cultures. [in preparation]
Havron, N., Yetish, G., Siegel, J. & Cristia, A. Stability of vocal input and output measures drawn from daylong
recordings [in preparation]
Talks Presented in Refereed Conferences
Havron, N., Babineau, M., Fievet, A. C., de Carvalho, A., & Christophe, A. (to be given Nov. 2019). Young Children
Build Syntactic Predictions During Language Processing and Use Them to Learn Novel-Word Meanings. The
44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.
Havron, N., Cristia, A., Ramus, F., & Peyre, H. (2018). The effect of siblings on language
development as a function of age difference and sex. The 43nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.
Berreti, M., Havron, N. & Christophe, A. (2018). Conflict resolution between syntactic and
semantic cues in language acquisition. The 43nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.
Havron, N., de Carvalho, A., Fievet, A. C. & Christophe, A. (2018). 3-4-year-old children update their syntactic predictions to infer the meaning of novel words. 1st international Workshop on Predictive Processing, San Sebastian, Spain.
Havron, N., Scaff, C., Linzen, T. & Christophe, A. (2017). Cumulative Syntactic Priming in Comprehension in Children and Adults. The 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.
Havron, N. & Arnon, I. (2017). Literacy as a source of variation in language processing and acquisition. Talk presented at Many Paths to Language, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Havron, N. & Leibovits, I. (2016). Language and body: Linguistic knowledge neutralizes automatic valence evaluations. Talk presented at 6th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Bangor, UK.
Johnson, T., Havron, N. & Arnon, I. (2016) Frequent frames in CDS as training wheels for acquisition of the verb paradigm in Hebrew. Talk presented at 2nd Usage-Based Linguistics Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Havron, N. & Arnon, I. (2015). The effect of literacy on spoken language processing in children learning to read. Talk presented at the 9th conference of Literacy and Language, Tel Aviv, Israel
Havron, N., & Arnon, I. (2014). The effect of literacy on spoken language processing. Talk presented at the 20th conference of Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, Edinburgh, UK.
Havron, N., & Arnon, I. (2014). The effect of literacy on spoken language processing. Talk presented at the 19th Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning, Hood River, USA.
Havron, N., & Arnon, I. (2014). The effect of literacy on spoken language processing: a before-after comparison of adult illiterates learning to read. Talk presented at the 8th conference of Literacy and Language, Haifa, Israel
Havron, N. & Arnon, I. (2013). The effect of literacy on spoken language processing. Talk presented at the 7th conference of Literacy and Language, Kiryat Ono, Israel
Posters presented in refereed conferences
Barbir, M. Havron, N., Recht, S., A., Fievet, A. C. & Christophe, A. (to be presented Nov. 2019). When one learning
method is both a propeller and an obstacle: The effect of translation on second language acquisition in children. The 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.
Maillot, S. Havron, N., Dautriche, I., Spelke, E., Ashur, P. & Christophe, A. (to be presented Nov. 2019). Fourteen
Month-Old Infants' Understanding of Sentences. The 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.
Barrault, A., Havron, N. de Carvalho, A., Dautriche, I., & Christiphe, A. (2018) When predictions
fail: Adults and children stop predicting upcoming syntactic categories in unreliable contexts. The 43nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.
Havron, N., de Carvalho, A., Barrault, A. & Christophe, A. (2017). Syntactic adaptation as a mechanism that drives and supports child language acquisition. Poster presented at Many Paths to Language, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Havron, N. & Arnon, I. (2016). The worse children segment – the better they learn a language. Poster presentation at The third conference on Cognition Research of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology, Israel.
Havron, N., Lancry, O. & Arnon, I. (2015). AoA and literacy effects in L2 acquisition. Poster presentation at The second conference on Cognition Research of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology, Acre, Israel.
Havron, N., & Arnon, I. (2014). How learning to read affects spoken language processing in illiterate adults learning to read in their second language. Poster presentation at The first conference on Cognition Research of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology, Acre, Israel.
Book chapter and book review
Havron, N. (2013). A Zen Buddhist reading of Kafka's the Castle. Franz Kafka – continuation or revolution. Shamir, Z. and Ataria, Y. (Eds.). Jerusalem: Safra Publishing. [Hebrew]
Havron, N. (2015) Book review: The mathematics of trauma by Yochai Ataria. Sikhot, Israeli journal of psychotherapy. [Hebrew]