SoundStart: Prosodic development before birth and in the first three years of life

Agenda

15 December 2023
09:00 - 13:00
Utrecht University, Academiegebouw, Kanunnikenzaal

1st Sound Start Symposium on Early Prosodic Development

Join Us at the Symposium on Early Prosodic Development

We are excited to announce the upcoming Symposium on Early Prosodic Development! This symposium aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the research focus, advancements, and future prospects of the SoundStart project. It will also offer insights into the methodologies embraced within the SoundStart project and related research by our esteemed collaborators.

Programme

9:00-9:15 Walk-in and registration with coffee

(Kanunnikenzaal, Academy Building)

9:15-9:30 Project overview

Aoju Chen (SoundStart PI)

9:30-10:00 Sound to Structure: The development of prosodic phrasing

Jorik Geutjes (SoundStart PhD Candidate)

10:00-10:30 Neural correlates of phonological processing as predictors of later language development

Claudia Maennel (Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin; MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)

10:30-11:00 Sound to Meaning: The development of form-meaning mappings in prosody

Elanie van Niekerk (SoundStart PhD Candidate)

11:00-11:30 The impact of IDS prosody on infant word-recognition

Iris-Corinna Schwarz,  Ellen Marklund, Lisa Gustavsson (Stockholm University)

11:30-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-12:30 Gesture to Sound: Visual cues to prosodic development

Victoria Reshetnikova (SoundStart PhD Candidate)

12:30-13:00 Eye tracking in face-to-face interaction

Roy Hessels (SoundStart Team)

13:00-14:00 Lunch in collaboration with the Dynamics of Youth, Early Childhood community

(Johanna Westerdijk room, Academy Building)

14:15 – 15:00 Roundtable discussion – Project Sound to structure

(attended only by SoundStart project team)

15:00 – 15:45 Roundtable discussion – Project Gesture to Sound

(attended only by SoundStart project team)

15:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:45 Roundtable discussion – Project Sound to meaning

(attended only by SoundStart project team)

We invite you to register by filling in this form. Registration will be open until the 24th of November. Questions? Contact us at sound.start@uu.nl.

We hope to welcome you soon at our first SoundStart Symposium on Early Prosodic Development!