You are warmly invited to apply for a student assistant position for about 4 hours of work per week for the 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 rhythmic and melodic units, and…

Our intern Roos Ledeboer presented her master thesis in the form of a poster on the 10th Conference of the ISGS (https://www.isgs10.nl/) on the 10th of July. With the help of her supervisors Victoria Reshetnikova and Prof. Dr. Aoju Chen she wrote a very interesting thesis titled: “The effect of manual gesture restriction on acoustic…

What is this study about? By the third trimester, babies in the womb can already hear. They’re especially tuned in to their mum’s voice, but they also pick up on other sounds—like music, speech, and even changes in mum’s heartbeat and breathing. And it’s not just cute—it’s meaningful. Research shows that babies learn from what…

On the 12th of June 2024, Victoria Reshetnikova organized the first SoundStart Symposium on Multimodality in Communication and Language Development together with her supervisors Roy Hessels and Aoju Chen. Researchers from different nationalities came together in Utrecht and talked about multimodality from their point of view. The presentation subjects included: – “Prosody and gestures for…

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…

The 030-Lab is a core-facility in the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital (WKZ) where researchers from all disciplines in the UMC Utrecht, Utrecht University and the Princess Máxima Center work closely together. At the 030-Labday, researchers were able to present a poster to the children of the WKZ. The children could then see what kind of research…

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.

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 13 weken. Tijdens…

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.

You are warmly invited to apply for a student assistant position for about 4 hours of work per week for the 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 rhythmic and melodic…