Language Acquisition

The language acquisition group has a focus on the early acquisition of phonological and syntactic knowledge in monolingual and bilingual typically developing children and children at risk for language impairment. Further topics are interactions between cognitive and linguistic development as well as the relation between the development of speech perception and speech production. The babylab is equipped with the most recent experimental techniques to study early language acquisition.

Collaborative Research Centre 1287 Limits of Variability in Language: Cognitive, Computational, and Grammatical Aspects

• C03: Effects of variable input on word learning and word recognition in infantsas part of the DFG-funded CRC 1287 ‘Limits of Variability in Language: Cognitive, Computational and Grammatical Aspects’ at the University of Potsdam, 07/2021- 12/2025
• https://crossing-project.de/p1/
  The sensitive period of associative learning of non-adjacent dependencies in verbal and non-verbal materials (FOR 2253, P1)
• https://crossing-project.de/p6/
  Perceptual impairment in infant speech and face recognition: Cross-domain vs. domain-specific mechanisms in attunement and its modification (FOR 2253, P6)

An overview of further projects can be found here.