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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).

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).

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).