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…

*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…

With great pride we look back at the succes of the first ever organised Sound Start Symposium on the 12th of December 2023. This symposium aimed to provide a comprehensive overview of the research focus, advancements, and future prospects of the SoundStart project. It also offered insights into the methodologies embraced within the SoundStart project…

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…

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).