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2nd SoundStart 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
| 9:15-9:30 | Walk-in and registration with coffee (Kanunnikenzaal, Academy Building) |
| 9:30-9:45 | Opening talk – From Ideas to Evidence: The Journey So Far Aoju Chen (SoundStart PI, ILS) |
| 9:45-10:25 | Development of Prosodic Phrasing Before Birth and in the First Year of Life Jorik Geutjes (SoundStart PhD Candidate, ILS) |
| 10:25-10:55 | The Perception–Production Link in Early Infancy: New Developments Sonia Frota (Invited speaker, Universidade de Lisboa) |
| 10:55-11:15 | Coffee & tea break |
| 11:15-11:55 | Melody First, Words Later: Mechanisms Shaping Infants’ Acquisition of Prosodic Form-Meaning Mappings from Prenatal to Toddler Years Elanie van Niekerk (SoundStart PhD Candidate, ILS) |
| 11:55-12:25 | Predicting Language Abilities in 5-year-olds from Parental Vocabulary and Language Input Environments Caroline Junge (SoundStart team, Department of Experimental Psychology) |
| 12:25-14:00 | Lunch (Sterrekamer, Academy Building) |
| 14:00-14:40 | How Gestures and Visual Attention Support Prosodic Learning in Infancy Victoria Reshetnikova (SoundStart PhD Candidate, ILS) |
| 14:40-15:10 | How a modality-neutral prosodic dimension can enrich multimodal language acquisition frameworks Pilar Prieto (SoundStart sounding board member, Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Nuria Esteve-Gibert (SoundStart collaborator, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) |
| 15:10-16:00 Posters & Coffee | P1. The Influence of Brain Maturity on Prosodic Boundary Processing at Birth Tirza van den Eijnde (Former SoundStart intern, Graduate School of Life Sciences) P2. Multimodal Prosodic Phrasing in Infant-Directed Speech: Testing the Cumulative-Cue Hypothesis with Gesture Restriction Roos Ledeboer (Former SoundStart intern, Radboud University Nijmegen) P3. Functional Flexibility in Vocalisation of Children and Adolescents with Non- or Minimally Verbal Autism Elize Bruil (Intern, English Language & Culture BA programme) P4. The Role of Associative Learning in the Acquisition of Prosody-Emotion Mappings during the Prenatal Period Anna Ansems (Former SoundStart intern, Graduate School of Life Sciences) P5. Test-retest reliability analysis of neural tracking in infants: Refining EEG pre-processing pipelines Adhyayan Chaudhry (Former intern, Graduate School of Life Sciences) p6. Predicting Questions in Swedish Intonation Data Greta Gandini (Former SoundStart student assistant, Stockholm University) |
| 16:00-16:15 | Closing talk – From Findings to Impact: The Road Ahead for SoundStart Aoju Chen (SoundStart PI, ILS) |
| 16:25-17:00 | Knowledge Utilisation Roundtable For project members, invited speakers, and colleagues interested in exploring how the project’s findings can be translated into societal impact |
We invite you to register by filling in this form. Questions? Contact us at sound.start@uu.nl.
We hope to welcome you soon at our first SoundStart Symposium on Early Prosodic Development!