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Infancy Congress 2024: Poster presentation about the influence of prenatal language exposure on the melody of infant vocalisations
Thank you for visiting and viewing our poster! You can download a PDF version of the poster here. You can also view the pre-registration for this systematic review here: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/XKWYR If you have any questions or comments, feel free to reach out via email at e.a.vanniekerk@uu.nl.
Read moreHoe belangrijk zijn gebaren bij het leren van een nieuwe taal? Doe mee met onze studie!
Registreer hier Waar gaat deze studie over? Het onderzoek gaat over de precieze rol die gebaren en gezichtsuitdrukking spelen bij het leren van een nieuwe taal. Hiervoor organiseren we een korte taalcursus, waarbij we meten hoe kinderen reageren op een nieuwe taal. Het onderzoek betreft een taalcursus van 13 sessies, verspreidt over 12 weken. Tijdens…
Read moreInfancy Congress 2024: Poster presentation about the role of pitch contour shape in expressing social purpose in infant babbling
Thank you for visiting and viewing our poster! You can download a PDF version of the poster here. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to reach out via email at e.a.vanniekerk@uu.nl.
Read moreJoin Our Team: German-speaking Student Assistants Needed for the SoundStart project
You are warmly invited to apply for a student assistant position for about 4 hours of work per week for the Gesture to Sound study within the SoundStart project. The SoundStart project explores prosodic development from prenatal stages to the third year of life. It focuses on two key aspects: Prosodic Phrasing, breaking speech into…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreTalk 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…
Read morePoster 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).
Read morePoster 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).
Read moreTalk 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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