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

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The Melody and Meaning of Baby Talk – Participate in our study!

*This study is currently not taking on new participants* What is this study about?  We focus on how infants learn to use the melody of their voice (or intonation) to communicate with their caregivers during the period where they are not yet able to say words. Infants can change their intonation patterns to communicate different…

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Talk and poster at MPaL 2023

On the 25th of October 2023, Iris Leliveld, RMA student, presented her work entitled Comparing the prosody of IDS and ADS: How do ADS and IDS differ in their marking of intonational phrase boundaries? during the poster session at the Many Paths to Language conference in Nijmegen (Netherlands).         Next day, Elanie…

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Poster at GESPIN 2023

On the 14th of September 2023, Victoria Reshetnikova, Gesture To Sound PhD candidate, presented her work on combining manual and automated gesture annotation at the Gesture and Speech in interaction conference in Nijmegen (Netherlands).

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Poster at PaPe 2023

On the 3rd of June 2023, Jorik Geutjes, Sound To Structure PhD candidate, presented his work on prosodic phrase boundaries in Dutch at the Phonetics and Phonology in Europe conference in Nijmegen (Netherlands).

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Talk at MMSYM23

On the 28th of April 2023, Victoria Reshetnikova, Gesture To Sound PhD candidate, presented her work on variation in infant-directed gestural input related to prosodic phrasing at the 1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium in Barcelona (Spain).

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