Peer-reviewed journal articles

Chen, A. and van den Bergh (accepted). Acquiring prosodic focus marking: individual differences and links to development in vocabulary and musicality. Laboratory Phonology.

Chen, A. and van den Bergh (2025). The production-comprehension relationship in the acquisition of prosodic focus marking: The role of age and individual differences. Languages, 10(9), 234. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10090234

Chen, A., and Narasimhan, B. (2022). A proposal for research on the acquisition of prosodic focus marking in diverse languages: A response to Kidd and Garcia (2022). First Language, 42(6), 745–750. https://doi-org/10.1177/01427237221106415

Destruel, E., Lalande, L, and Chen, A. (2024). The Development of Prosodic Focus Marking in French. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1360308

Geutjes, J., Ganga, R., van Niekerk, E., Reshetnikova, V., & Chen, A. (accepted). Cue-weighting in processing of prosodic boundaries in Dutch: an ERP study. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Geutjes, J., Junge, C., & Chen, A. (2025). Production of intonational phrase boundaries in Dutch. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100325100741

Van Niekerk, E., Junge, C., and Chen, A. (2025). Melody in cry and non-cry vocalisations of newborns across languages: A systematic review. First Language. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237251372203

Yang, A., Cho, T., Kim, S., and Chen, A. (2024). Prosodic focus marking in Seoul Korean-speaking children: The use of prosodic phrasing. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1352280

Chapters in books (peer-reviewed *)

Narasimhan, B., O’Shannessy, C. and Chen, A. (to appear). First language acquisition. Invited contribution to the Routledge Handbook of Linguistics.

Conference papers (peer-reviewed *)

Ganga, R., Geutjes, J., van Niekerk, E., Reshetnikova, V. and Chen, A. (2024). Processing prosodic boundaries in Dutch coordinated constructions. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024.

Preregistrations

Geutjes, J., Junge, C., Tataranno, M. L. Benders, M., & Chen, A. (2024). Processing of prosodic phrase boundaries by preterm newborns. AsPredicted, #198015. https://aspredicted.org/s23g-nhjc.pdf

Geutjes, J., Junge, C. & Chen, A. (2024). Frequency-driven learning of prosodic boundary cues in 4- to 7-month-old infants. AsPredicted, #249586. https://aspredicted.org/t4kd-pmcp.pdf

Reshetnikova, V., Hessels, R., & Chen, A. (2025) Learning prosodic phrasing: The role of gestures and visual attention. AsPredicted, #244888. https://aspredicted.org/vhjw-zvft.pdf

Van Niekerk, E., Junge, C., & Chen, A. (2025). The role of innate mechanisms in the acquisition of prosodic form-meaning mappings. AsPredicted, #169759. https://aspredicted.org/pe4hc.pdf

Van Niekerk, E., Junge, C., & Chen, A. (to appear). The role of associative learning in the acquisition of prosody-emotion mappings during the prenatal period. AsPredicted.

van Niekerk, E. A., Boumeester, M., Junge, C., & Chen, A. (2023). The influence of prenatal language exposure on the melody of newborn vocalisations: A systematic review. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/XKWYR

Symposia/workshops/conferences (co-) organised by Soundstart

SoundStart Symposium on Multimodality in Communication and Language Development, at Utrecht University, 12 June, 2024.

The SoundStart team co-organised the symposium ‘Understanding infants’ speech processing: The role of input and development in neural oscillation and prosodic phrasing across languages’, at International Congress on Infant Studies 2024, Glasgow, 9-11 July, 2024.

The SoundStart team (Chen, A; E; Geutjes; van Niekerk, J; Reshetnikova, V) organised the first Sound Start Symposium on Early Prosodic Development, at Academiegebouw Utrecht, 15 december 2023.

Invited talks and lectures

Chen, A. (2024) “Prosodic focus marking: Advances, methodological challenges, and future directions’. Invited commentary. The 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Seoul, 27-29 June, 2024.

Chen, A. (2024) “From sound to structure: Infants’ perception of prosodic boundaries in speech”. MPI colloquium, Nijmegen, 16 April, 2024.

Chen, A. (2023) “Research on early language development: A different animal?” Talk at the 1st Researchers’ Workshop of the AI and Animal Welfare Lab, Utrecht Science Park, 30 October,

Chen, A. (2022) “Acquisition of prosodic focus marking: A cross-linguistic model”. ‘Integrated Language Science and Technology’ Seminar Series. University of Pennsylvania, 4 March, 2022 (Virtual).

Conference presentations

2025

Geutjes, G., Junge, C., Tataranno, M., Benders, M., and Chen, A. (2025). Early speech segmentation abilities in preterm newborns: an event-related potential study. Talk at the 6th joint European Neonatal Societies (jENS), Belgrade, Serbia, 21-25 October, 2025.

Ledeboer, R. Reshetnikova, R., Hessels, R., Chen, A. (2025). The effect of manual gesture restriction on acoustic and visual phrasing cues in infant-directed speech. Poster presentation at the 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 9-11 July, 2025.

Geutjes, G., Junge, C., Tataranno, M., Benders, M., and Chen, A. (2025). Early Prosodic Boundary Perception: Innate Biases in Preterm Newborns. Poster presentation at the seventh biennial Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD 2025), San Sebastian, Spain, 3-4 June, 2025.

de Groot, E.R., Ganga, R., Tataranno, M.L., Wijnen, F., Chen, A. (2025) The effect of neural immaturity after gestational diabetes on rapid auditory processing abilities in newborns. Poster presentation at the seventh biennial Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD 2025), San Sebastian, Spain, 3-4 June, 2025.

van Niekerk, E., Schwarz, I-C., Gustavsson, L, Marklunk, E., Junge, C., and Chen, A. (2025). The role of innate knowledge in preverbal infants’ use of prosody to signal requests versus comments. Poster presentation at the seventh biennial Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD 2025), San Sebastian, Spain, 3-4 June, 2025.

Ledeboer, R. Reshetnikova, R., Hessels, R., Chen, A. (2025). Do multimodal cues compensate for manual gesture restrictions in infant-directed communication? UU Humanities Graduate School Conference, Utrecht, 22 May, 2025.

2024

Leliveld, I., Geutjes, J., June, C., and Chen, A. (2024). Comparing IDS and ADS in production of intonational phrase boundaries. Talk at the Symposium ‘Understanding infants’ speech processing: The role of input and development in neural oscillation and prosodic phrasing across languages’, at International Congress on Infant Studies 2024, Glasgow, 9-11 July, 2024.

Reshetnikova, V., Hessels, R., and Chen, A. (2024). Is prosodic phrasing gestured to infants? . Talk at the Symposium ‘Understanding infants’ speech processing: The role of input and development in neural oscillation and prosodic phrasing across languages’, at International Congress on Infant Studies 2024, Glasgow, 9-11 July, 2024.

Geutjes, J., Ganga, R., van Niekerk, E., Reshetnikova, V. and Chen, A. (2024). Processing of prosodic phrasing in adult speakers of Dutch. Talk at the Symposium ‘Understanding infants’ speech processing: The role of input and development in neural oscillation and prosodic phrasing across languages’, at International Congress on Infant Studies 2024, Glasgow, 9-11 July, 2024.

Ganga, R., Wijnen, F., and Chen, A. (2024). Processing of prosodic phrasing in six-month-old Dutch-learning infants. Talk at the Symposium ‘Understanding infants’ speech processing: The role of input and development in neural oscillation and prosodic phrasing across languages’, at International Congress on Infant Studies 2024, Glasgow, 9-11 July, 2024.

Van Niekerk, E., June, C., and Chen, A. (2024). The Influence of prenatal language exposure on the melody of infant vocalisations: A systematic review. Poster presentation at International Congress on Infant Studies 2024, Glasgow, 9-11 July, 2024.

Van Niekerk, E., June, C., and Chen, A. (2024).The role of pitch contour shape in expressing social purpose in infant babbling. Poster presentation at International Congress on Infant Studies 2024, Glasgow, 9-11 July, 2024.

Smorenburg, L., Thorson, J., Chen, A., and Hinzen, W. (2024). Prosodic characteristics of non-verbal vocalisations by non- or minimally verbal children and adolescents with autism: a cross-linguistic perspective. Talk at SP2024 satellite workshop ‘Beyond words: Exploring prosody in non-verbal vocalisations across diverse groups’, Leiden, 6 July, 2024.

van Niekerk, E., Junge, C., and Chen, A. (2024) The role of pitch in expressing social purpose in infant babbling. Talk at SP2024 satellite workshop ‘Beyond words: Exploring prosody in non-verbal vocalisations across diverse groups’, Leiden, 6 July, 2024.

Ganga, R., Geutjes, J., van Niekerk, E., Reshetnikova, V. and Chen, A. (2024). Processing prosodic boundaries in Dutch coordinated constructions. Talk at Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden, the Netherlands, 2-5 July, 2024

2023

van Niekerk, E. A., Junge, C., & Chen, A. (2023). Role of innate mechanisms in the acquisition of prosodic form-meaning mappings. Taalontwikkeling Kinderen in Nederland en Vlaanderen, Utrecht, Netherlands, November 10, 2023.

van Niekerk, E., Junge, C., and Chen, A. (2023). The role of pitch contour shape in expressing social purpose in infant babbling, Talk at The Many Paths to Language conference, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 25-26 October, 2023.

Leliveld, I., Geutjes, J., Junge, C., and Chen, A. (2023). Comparing the prosody of IDS and ADS: How do ADS and IDS differ in their marking of intonational phrase boundaries? Poster presentation. The Many Paths to Language conference, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 25-26 October, 2023.

Reshetnikova, V., Hessels, R. and Chen, A. (2023). Combining manual and automated gesture annotation. Poster presentation. The Gesture and Speech in interaction conference, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 14 September, 2023.

Geutjes, J., Junge, C., and Chen, A. (2023). Production of prosodic phrase boundaries in Dutch. Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2023, Nijmegen, 2-4 June, 2023.

Reshetnikova, V., Hessels, R. and Chen, A. (2023). Variation in infant-directed gestural input related to prosodic phrasing. Talk at the 1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, 28 April 2023.