Babineau, M*, Barbir, M.*, de Carvalho, A., Havron, N., Dautriche, I., & Christophe, A. (2024). Syntactic bootstrapping as a language learning mechanism. Nature Reviews Psychology, 3, 463–474. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-024-00317-w.
Hagihara, H., Barbir, M., Ishibashi, M., Kanakogi, Y., Kato, M., Lovcevic, I., Lu, Y., Minagawa, Y., Moriguchi, Y., Sakagami, M., Shinya, Y., Yamamoto, H., & Tsuji, S. (2023). A sharable merged dataset on Japanese children’s vocabulary measures using the Japanese MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventory. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/S5YDW.
Tsuji, S., Ishikawa, M., Barbir, M., Mamonova, G., Nakamura, A., & Crimon, C. (2023). 算数・数学の学びを促す教材としてコミック開発とその検証(Development and validation of comics as teaching materials to promote learning of mathematics). 発達科学研究教育センタ―紀要 (Bulletin of the research and education center for developmental science, CODER), 36. https://coder.or.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/d27c3a4255a8ac7e717b158a1fdf29da.pdf.
Havron, N., de Carvalho, A., Babineau, M., Barbir, M., Dautriche, I., & Christophe, A. (2023). There might be is more than being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping: A look at person and prosody in naturalistic child-directed speech. Journal of Child Language, 1-5. doi:10.1017/S0305000923000181.
Barbir, M., Babineau, M. J., Fiévet, A-C., & Christophe, A. (2023). Rapid infant learning of syntactic-semantic links. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U. S. A., 120(1), e2209153119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209153119.
Crimon, C.*, Barbir, M.*, Hagihara, H.*, de Araujo, E., Nozawa, S., Shinya, Y., Nawal, A., & Tsuji, S. (2022). Mask wearing in Japanese and French nursery schools: The perceived impact of masks on communication. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 874264. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.874264.
Doctoral Disseration
Barbir, M. (2019). The Way We Learn (Doctoral dissertation). Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
Peer-Reviewed Conferences (selected)
Barbir, M.* & Tatsumi, Y.*, Tsuji, S. (2023, October 25-27). Learning from sparce input: How children learn morphosyntactic elements that are often omitted in speech. [Poster]. The Many Paths to Language. Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Barbir, M. & Tsuji, S. (2023, July 26-29). On learning a new grammar and vocabulary in adolescence [Poster]. The 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Sydney, Australia.
Barbir, M., Kono, M., Tatsumi, Y., Recht, S., Fujimura, Y., Mazuka, R., & Tsuji, S. (2022, November 3-6). The role of facial cues on infant word learning [Conference presentation]. The 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.
Sander-Montant, A.*, Marie-Louise, L.*, Barbir, M.*, Crimon, C.*, Kotoboo consortium, Tsuji, S. (2022, July 7-12). Bringing developmental science to the spotlight: how to make research accessible to parents [Poster session]. The 23rd International Conference on Infant Studies, Ottawa, Canada.
Barbir, M.*, Tatsumi, Y.*, Kono, M., Fujimura, Y., Recht, S., Mazuka, R., & Tsuji, S. (2022, Jan. 10-14). The social-communicative function of language and grammar acquisition: A case study of Japanese toddlers’ acquisition of particles [Poster session]. 12th BCCCD Conference (Budapest Central European University Conference on Cognitive Development), Budapest, Hungary (online).
Barbir, M., Sivakumar, K., Fiévet, A.-C., & Christophe, A. (2020, November 5-8). What making inferences says about children’s underlying linguistic knowledge [Poster session]. The 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA (online).
Barbir, M., Havron, N., Recht, S., Fiévet, A-C., & Christophe, A. (2019, November). (2019, November 7-10). When one learning method is both a propeller and an obstacle: The effect of translation on second language acquisition in children [Poster session]. The 44th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.
Barbir, M., Babineau, M., Sivakumar, K., Fiévet, A-C., & Christophe, A. (2019, March 7-9). When Syntax Meets Vocabulary: An Investigation of Function Word Acquisition Across Age [Presentation]. International Convention for Psychological Science, Association for Psychological Science, Paris, France.
Barbir, M., Babineau, M., Fiévet, A-C., & Christophe, A. (2018, November 2-4). How’s it Bamouling Today: Learning Words in Context [Presentation]. The 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.
