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

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

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ICIS symposium 2024

The International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) is a not-for-profit professional organization devoted to the promotion and dissemination of research on the development of infants through its official journal and a biennial conference where researchers and practitioners gather and discuss the latest research and theory in infant development. Our SoundStart team attended ICIS and participated with both talks and posters:

Talks at the ICIS symposium:

  • Talk on understanding infants’ speech processing: The role of input and development in neural oscillation and prosodic phrasing across language’s by Leliveld, I., Geutjes, J., June, C., and Chen, A.
  • Talk on understanding infants’ speech processing: The role of input and development in neural oscillation and prosodic phrasing across languages by Reshetnikova, V., Hessels, R., and Chen, A.
  • Talk on understanding infants’ speech processing: The role of input and development in neural oscillation and prosodic phrasing across languages by Geutjes, J., Ganga, R., van Niekerk, E., Reshetnikova, V. and Chen, A.
  • Talk at the Symposium ‘Understanding infants’ speech processing: The role of input and development in neural oscillation and prosodic phrasing across languages by Ganga, R., Wijnen, F., and Chen, A.
Victoria Reshetnikova giving a talk about prosodic phrasing in gestures towards infants.
Jorik Geutjes giving a talk on the processing of phrasing in adult speakers of Dutch

Poster presentations:

Elanie van Niekerk explaining her poster on the influence of prenatal language exposure on the melody of infant vocalisations, a systematic review.
Elanie van Niekerk presenting her poster on The role of pitch contour shape in expressing social purpose in infant babbling.

For more information on ICIS see: https://infantstudies.org/