News & Events

News & Upcoming Events

•  In the framefork of her PhD, Stella Krüger has investgated developmenal differences in the perception of coarticulatory cues. Her findings have been accepted with revisions. 
• We are preparing for ISSP conferenceto be held, Dec 14-18th. We will present five studies adressing topics related to reading, carryover coarticulation, perception,and the  modelling of children articulaory strategies. 
• Our collaborative study on The Impact of Alcohol on L1 vs. L2 conducted with colleagues at the Universty of Groningen  is now published in the journal Language and Speech.
• Aude Noiray has been invited to be part of the organizing committee of the next international Speech Motor Control conference to be held August 2021.

Past Events

2020

• In the framework of her PhD within the Marie Curie PredictAble ITN, Orsolya Kolozsvári (Jyväskylä University) has investigated the cortical tracking of various sized units of speech that are crucial for spoken language processing in children and adults. The findings have been submitted for publication and are now in the revision phase.
• Our joint research with Mark Tiede (Haskins Lab), Catherine Laporte (Université du Quebec) and Lucie Ménard (UQAM, Montreal) is now published in Laboratory Phonology:  Recording and analyzing kinematic data in children and adults with SOLLAR: Sonographic & Optical Linguo-Labial Articulation Recording system (SOLLAR). 
• Congratulation to Elina Rubertus! Her study on carryover coarticulation has been published in Laboratory Phonology. 

2019

• 10.09: Our manuscript entitled: Spoken language acquisition and the challenge of skill integration has been published in Frontiers in Psychology, section Language Sciences. It is available on open access here.
• 17-21.06: LOLA is in Lecce to present 3 posters at PaPE conference. 
• 13.06: Jennifer Sander will present the first result of her Ms. project on gaze dynamics in infants at WILD 2019.
• 11.05: Tag der Wissenschaften : A day of scientific activities for parents & children. Info here.
• 16.04: Aude Noiray will give a workshop on ultrasound tongue data analyses at the Linguistic Department of the University of Groningen.
• 07.03: In the framework of a research collaboration with Prof. Lucie Ménard, Aude Noiray will give talk at UQAM (Montreal) entitled: Units of phonological awareness & units of speech production in development.
• 13.02: Aude Noiray will give a talk at the Humboldt University on: Anticipation in spoken language acquisition: interaction with speech motor control and phonological development. 
•  In a study conducted last year, we used ultrasound imaging and generalised additive models (GAMs) to examine children's use of anticipation in their speech. Thanks to 74 wonderful children age 3 to 7 as well as adults, we tracked the maturation of this mechanism. The article is now released online in open access.
• Results from a recent study on "Reading proficiency and phonemic awareness as predictors of coarticulatory gradients in children"  will be presented at BUCLD 44 in November in Boston.
• We are delighted  that Lisa Hintermeier was offered a PhD position on a new Marie Curie project: NEurodevelopmental Optimal-Predictors, Risk factors, and Intervention from a Systems approach to Maladjustment in Children. She will work on the “Development of reading fluency: The relevance of sublexical processing in reading development” with  Mikko Aro and Minna Torppa (Jyväskylä Uni), George Spanoudis (Univ Cyprus).
• Congratulation to Dzhuma Abakarova who was awarded a research fellowship from the DAAD to spend two months at USC. She will work with Profs. Iskarous and  Goldstein on modelling coarticulatory processes.