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Workshop on Infant Language Development





19-21 June 2024
Lisbon, Portugal


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Wednesday, June 19
08:00-08:50 Registration
08:50-09:00  Opening session
09:00-10:00

Keynote
Chair: Marina Vigário
Reiko Mazuka
Not all rhythms are equal: late emergence of mora-timed rhythm in Japanese

10:00-11:00 Oral session 1
Chair: Daniel Swingley
Annika Unger, Barbara Höhle & Claudia Männel
Word segmentation in bilingual infants acquiring rhythmically different languages
Hana Zjakic, Marie Lallier & Marina Kalashnikova
The role of language-specific cues in predictive behaviours in monolingual and bilingual infants
Leonardo Piot, Thierry Nazzi & Natalie Boll-Avetisyan
Infants’ phonotactic sensitivities to regularities involving low-salient fricatives: a cross-linguistic study
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Oral session 2
Chair: Jessica Hay 
Camila Scaff, Georgia Loukatou, Alejandrina Cristia & Naomi Havron
Unweaving WEIRD Patterns in CHILDES: Biases in Naturalistic Recordings
Anna Caunt & Rana Abu-Zhaya
Language Mixing Patterns in Multilingual Homes: Evidence from Daylong Recordings
Rui Qi Choo, Victoria Y. H. Chua, Vinitha Selvarajan, Sheetal Sahana Vimalraj, Annabel K. H. Loh, Shaza binte Amran, Jin Yi Wong, Fei Ting Woon & Suzy J. Styles
How to count words (or their parts): Measures of speech quantity and complexity in multilingual, translanguaging populations using word versus morpheme boundaries
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:20 Oral Session 3
Chair: Natalie Boll-Avetisyan
Katharina Menn, Claudia Männel, Florian Scharf & Lars Meyer
Decoding Early Vocabulary Acquisition: Naturalistic evidence from EEG encoding models across the First Five Years
Melis Çetinçelik, Antonia Jordan Barros, Caroline F. Rowland & Tineke M. Snijders
Neural Tracking of Audiovisual Speech in 10-Month-Old Infants and Relationship With Vocabulary Development
Giulia Mornati, Nicola Molinaro, Marie Lallier, Manuel Carreiras & Marina Kalashnikova
Cortical tracking of native and non-native speech in bilingual and monolingual Spanish/Basque infants at 4 and 7 months
Victoria Fratino, Evangelia Zaharakis & Diane Poulin-Dubois
The Effect of Early Bilingualism on Executive Functions: A Training Study
15:20-17:00
Coffee break & Poster session 1


1 Anika van der Klis, Caroline Junge, Frans Adriaans & René Kager
Dyadic coordination of infant behaviours and caregiver responses best predict later child vocabulary
2 Anna Gavarró, Tala Nazzal & Jingtao Zhu
Comprehension of wh- questions in infants exposed to Palestinian Arabic
3 Lisa Gustavsson, Klara Hjerpe, Anna Ericsson, Iris-Corinna Schwarz, Elísabet Eir Cortes & Ellen Marklund
Word-learning in 14-month-old Swedish-learning infants
4 Tove Nilsson Gerholm, Petter Kallioinen & Gláucia Laís Salomão
JA, multimodal behaviors and their relation to language acquisition
5 Guillem Bonafos, Clara Bourot, Pierre Pudlo, Jean-Marc Freyermuth, Laurence Reboul, Thierry Legou, Samuel Tronçon, Raoul Desbrières, Jean-Michel Bartoli & Arnaud Rey
Automatic extraction of infant vocalizations from one year home audio recordings
6 Florence A R Oxley, Tamar Keren-Portnoy & Eytan Zweig
Babble and the Brain: Babble Becomes More Left Lateralised As Babies Gain Articulatory Experience
7 Stina Andersson
Repetition of child utterances as contingent parental input: a longitudinal study of dyadic interaction with children aged 1-3 years
8 Arun Prakash Singh & Natalia Kartushina
Classifying Infant Vocalizations in Audio Recordings through Transfer Learning and Image Processing Techniques
9 Marielle Hababou-Bernson, Isabelle Dautriche & Clément François
The neural correlates of natural speech rhythm processing in Arabic, French and bilingual infants
10 Clara Menze, Tom Fritzsche, Barbara Höhle & Silvana Schmandt
Investigating German-speaking 30-month-olds' sensitivity to vowel- and consonant mispronunciations of early words: A pupillometry study.
11 Paul Okyere Omane, Natalie Boll-Avetisyan & Titia Benders
Exploring the language input to infants in a multilingual society in Africa
12 Carla Olabe-Rodriguez, Claudia Männel, Lars Meyer & Katharina Menn
Enhancement of Phonological Features in Infant-Directed Speech Matches Time-Course of Feature Acquisition
13 Rajalakshmi Madhavan, Ming Yean Sia, Xiaoyun Chen & Nivedita Mani
Children's familiarity with objects shapes caregiver-child joint attention and learning
14 Marta Casla, Florencia Alam, Ana Moreno-Núñez, Silvia Cruz-Gómez, María Fernández-Arroyo & Gelin Du
Variables influencing conversational interchanges during group interactions in nursery-schools.
16 Rajalakshmi Madhavan & Nivedita Mani
Learning in an interest-driven context: the effect of young children’s selective interests across language development
17 Irene Lorenzini, Yasmine Baqqali, Thierry Nazzi & Laurianne Cabrera
Does babbling shape speech sound discrimination? An ERP investigation
18 Audun Rosslund, Julien Mayor, Alejandrina Cristia & Natalia Kartushina
Native and non-native vowel discrimination in 6-month-old Norwegian infants
19 Dahliane Labertoniere, Géraldine Jean-Charles & Katrin Skoruppa
The effects of visual context on word learning in 14- to 19-month-old children
20 Alan Langus, Marc Hullebus, Tom Fritzsche, Barbara Höhle & Adamantios Gafos
Effects of uncertainty on word learning in 2-year-old infants and adults
21 Dahliane Labertoniere & Katrin Skoruppa
Composition and evolution of the first lexicon: grammatical categories, semantic classes and speech acts.
22 Irena Lovcevic & Sho Tsuji
The developmental pattern of native and non-native speech perception during the 1st year of life in Japanese infants
23 Estelle Hervé, Christelle Zielinski, Franziska Geringswald & Clément François
Minimal-pair associative word-learning in 18- and 24-months-old: an eye-tracking study
24 Ulrike Schild, Jessica N. Steil & Claudia K. Friedrich
Word-level stress processing in infants and toddlers
25 Holly Bradley, Priscilla Fung & Elizabeth Johnson
Beyond Babble: Investigating Predictors of Toddler Intelligibility in adults and children
26 Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez, Shannon Kong & Emily Foster
Beyond Boundaries: Statistical Learning in Word Segmentation among Monolingual and Bilingual Infants
27 Michaela Svoboda & Kateřina Chládková
Verbal and conceptual vocabulary development in Czech-learning children with cochlear implants
28 Luis Eduardo Muñoz, Audun Rosslund, Natalia Kartushina & Julien Mayor
Pacifier Use is associated with reduced word comprehension in early childhood
29 Jovana Pejovic, Cátia Severino, Marina Vigário & Sónia Frota
Early word learning skills in toddlers with Down syndrome: An eye-tracking study
30 Lucie Jarůšková & Kateřina Chládková
Preferences for L1-accented speakers in Czech-learning toddlers: behavioral and neural indices
31 Marc Hullebus, Adamantios Gafos, Tom Fritzsche, Alan Langus & Barbara Höhle
The use of coarticulatory cues for syllable-final minimal pair word-learning by 14-month-old infants
32 M. Reimann, J. Preiß, C. Florea, E. Reisenberger, M. Angerer, M. Schabus, D. Roehm, G. Schaadt & C. Männel
Talking hormones: Prenatal testosterone levels from neonate hair samples predict language development in the first year of life
33 Magdalena Krysztofiak, Grzegorz Krajewski, Ewa Enfer, Magdalena Łuniewska, Karolina Muszyńska & Ewa Haman
The role of word properties in early word learning in Polish monolingual infants
34 Kateřina Chládková, Josef Urbanec & Jan Kremláček
Neural attunement to native vowels across preterm and fullterm newborns
35 Gabriela Braga, Jovana Pejovic, Cátia Severino & Sónia Frota
Can Brazilians get it? The perception of European Portuguese statement and question intonation by Brazilian Portuguese-learning infants
36 Priscilla Fung & Elizabeth K. Johnson
Does language experience shape accent adaptation abilities in toddlers?
37 Melissa Paquette-Smith & Elizabeth K. Johnson
Do infants encode the tone of voice associated with novel word forms?
38 Jessica Hay
Does the quality of caregiver input predict IDS preferences at 8 months?
17:00-18:20 Oral Session 4
Chair: Anne Christophe 
Sónia Frota, Cátia Severino, Jovana Pejovic & Marina Vigário
Sensorimotor influences on infant speech perception: phonemes, stress and intonation
Sofia Russo, Filippo Carnovalini, Roberta Putignano, Giulia Calignano, Barbara Arfé, Antonio Rodà & Eloisa Valenza
A vibrotactile rhythmic priming for processing language
Joan Birulés, Olivier Pascalis, David Méary & Mathilde Fort
Covering the eyes or mouth of a speaker does not prevent toddlers’ word learning
Eva Murillo, Irene Rujas, Teresa Sierra, Elvira Zamora & Guzmán Azagra
Exploring Multimodal Interactions: Haptic Cues Between Adults and Infants Aged 9 to 12 Months

 

Thursday, June 20
09:00-10:00

Keynote
Chair: Marina Kalashnikova
Gert Westermann & Samuel Jones
A neuroconstructivist, transdiagnostic view of Developmental Language Disorder

10:00-11:00 Oral Session 5
Chair: Katrin Skoruppa 
Christopher Cox, Riccardo Fusaroli, Ethan Weed, Deborah Fein & Letitia Naigles
The development of turn-taking skills in autistic and typically developing children
Rana Abu-Zhaya, Isobel Horsfall-Turner, Cassim Hussain, Meng Feile & Iris Nomikou
Multimodal verb input to children with and without hearing impairment
A. Langner, M. Aldridge-Waddon, G. O'Grady & C. Laing
Investigating infants’ production of syllables following full cleft palate surgery: early syllable sequences as a marker of the typical vocal trajectory.
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Oral Session 6
Chair: Clément François
Olivera Savic
Seeing Through Language: Structure of the Language Input to a Blind Child
Mengru Han & Yan Gu
Bridging Word and World: Vocal Iconicity in Chinese Child-Directed Speech and Child Production
Ricarda Bothe & Nivedita Mani
Transparent touchscreens: observing infants' and children's exploration and learning during social interactions
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:20 Oral Session 7
Chair: Diane Poulin-Dubois 
Katrin Skoruppa, Salomé Schwob, Letizia Volpin & Amandine Ballestraz
Cognates boost bilingual infants’ early lexical acquisition: A cross-linguistic CDI study
Holly Bradley, Madeleine Yu, Natalie Fecher & Elizabeth Johnson
Distinguishing between foreign-language talkers: Another bilingual advantage emerging in early infancy?
Frans Adriaans
Segmental information as a cue for bilingual input separation: vowels, consonants, and phonotactics
Hiromasa Kotera, Ghada Khattab & Barbara Höhle
German infants’ discrimination of the English /æ/-/ɛ/ contrast: evidence from a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study
15:20-17:00
Coffee break & Poster session 2


1 Monica Hegde, Thierry Nazzi & Laurianne Cabrera
The reliance upon temporal modulation cues in consonant and vowel change detection at 6 and 10 months of age
2 G. Danielou , E. Hervé, A.S. Dubarry, T. Legou, B. Desnous & C. François
Impact of moderate prematurity on early speech perception and minimal-pair word-learning, preliminary results from a 2-year longitudinal study
3 Fleur M. H. G. Vissers, Imme Lammertink, Clara C. Levelt & Paula Fikkert
Toddlers’ Word Recognition: Comparing a Story-based Pupillometry Paradigm to a Looking-While-Listening Paradigm
4 Julie Bodard, Thierry Nazzy & Katrin Skoruppa
Comprehension and production of number and tense agreement by French-learning 40-month-old children
5 Dos Santos Maxine, Michel Sarah, Chartier Flora & Nazzi, Thierry
Sensitivity to mispronunciations in newly learned words in French-learning 12-month-old infants
6 Ane Theimann, Franziska Köder, Nivedita Mani, Monica Norvik & Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos
Investigating a potential link between semantic prediction and action prediction in toddlers
7 Joan Birulés, Stéphanie Bioulac, Isabelle Palacios, Aurelien Bathelet & Mathilde Fort
Multimodal Attention and Word Learning in Children with ASD
8 Michela Santangelo, Letizia Guerzoni, Domenico Cuda & Marinella Majorano
Participation in an online music program could enhance vocabulary production in toddlers with cochlear implant (CI) at six months after CI’s activation
9 Cheslie C. Klein, Emiliano Zaccarella, Angela D. Friederici & Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann
The emergence of combinatorial language processing in infancy
10 Anika van der Klis, Melis Çetinçelik, Katharina Menn, Tineke Snijders & Caroline Junge
Neural tracking of nursery rhymes: development and relations with vocabulary outcomes
11 Mireia Marimon, Victoria Mateu, Barbara Höhle & Megha Sundara
Evidence of word segmentation abilities in German-learning 5-to-6-month-olds
12 Audun Rosslund, Nina Varjola, Julien Mayor & Natalia Kartushina
Longitudinal changes in parental consonant production in infant-directed speech and infants’ early speech production from 6 to 12 months
13 Audun Rosslund, Julien Mayor, Roger Mundry, Arun Prakash Singh, Alejandrina Cristia & Natalia Kartushina
A longitudinal investigation of the acoustic properties of infant-directed speech to Norwegian 6–18-month-old infants
14 Sarah Warchhold, Katharina Zahner-Ritter & Bettina Braun
The influence of intonation on word recognition in German 18-24-month-olds
15 Eylem Altuntas, Catherine T. Best, Marina Kalashnikova, Antonia Götz & Denis Burnham
Acoustic features of vowels in mothers’ speech to their infants between 4–13-month infants, in relation to phonological abstraction and receptive vocabulary
16

Katrin Skoruppa, Letizia Volpin, Salomé Schwob & Amandine Ballestraz
Early processing measures in mono- and multilingual infants and their link to later language skills

17 Irena Lovcevic, Jiarui Li & Sho Tsuji
Home speech environment of Japanese infants from six- to 12-months: evidence from day-long recordings study
18 Jessica N. Steil & Claudia K. Friedrich
Do caregivers modulate their pitch to indicate the spatial position of objects?
19 Mengru Han & Yan Gu
Chinese Child-Directed Speech Is Faster and More Fluent Than Adult-Directed Speech
20 Magdalena Łuniewska, Agnieszka Dynak, Ewa Haman, Grzegorz Krajewski & Karolina Muszyńska
The length of breastfeeding does not affect age of reaching developmental milestones
21 Cécile Crimon, Anne-Caroline Fiévet, Sho Tsuji & Anne Christophe
A direct, tablet-based test of language development for French toddlers usable in non-lab settings
22 Luis Eduardo Muñoz, Audun Rosslund, Natalia Kartushina & Julien Mayor
No evidence of native sound discrimination in Norwegian 9–month-old infants using an eye-tracking habituation paradigm
23 Elena Andonova & Mihaela Barokova
Screen Time and Early Language Development in Bulgaria
24 E. Reisenberger, J. Preiß, M. Reimann, C. Florea, M. Schabus, M. Angerer & D. Roehm
Do maternal cortisol levels as well as infants’ cortisol levels influence language development at twelve months of age?
25 Shannon P. Kong, Olivia Afonso, Adam Baimel & Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez
Colour or category? Investigating second label learning in monolingual and bilingual infants
26 Agnieszka Dynak, Katarzyna Bajkowska, Jolanta Kilanowska, Joanna Kołak, Magdalena Krysztofiak, Magdalena Łuniewska, Karolina Muszyńska, Nina Gram Garmann & Ewa Haman
Knowledge retention after taking part in a parental intervention on supporting multilingual development
27 Kai Jia Tey, Sarah Walker, Amanda Seidl, Camila Scaff, Loann Peurey, Bridgette L. Kelleher, Kasia Hitczenko, William N. Havard, Lisa R. Hamrick, Pauline Grosjean & Margaret Cychosz, Heidi Colleran, Marisa Casillas, Elika Bergelson & Alejandrina Cristia
Exploring the Impact of Syllable Complexity on Canonical Proportion in Children: Insights from a Multilingual and Cross-cultural Study
28 Klára Matiasovitsová & Filip Smolík
Imitation of relative clauses in Czech children with developmental language disorder
29 Dean D’Souza, Jennifer X Haensel & Hana D’Souza
Infant Adaptations to Diverse Language Environments
30 Miguel Ramos
Sociolinguistic variation in Chilean Spanish speaking children and their caregivers: evidence of sensitivity to subtle sociophonetic traits in language development
31 E. Shroads & E. K. Johnson
Talker familiarity effects on toddler word recognition in linguistically-diverse settings
32 Martina Dvořáková, Kateřina Chládková, Josef Urbanec & Jan Kremláček
Newborns' neural tracking of infant-directed and adult-directed speech in native and foreign language
33 Priscilla Fung & Elizabeth K. Johnson
Revisiting the debate: Is cross-situational word learning too computationally complex for infants in the real world?
17:00-18:20 Oral Session 8
Chair: Nivedita Mani 
Jennifer Sander, Melis Çetinçelik, Yayun Zhang, Caroline Rowland & Zara Harmon
Comparing Joint Attention Metrics: Insights from Infant-Caregiver Interactions
Filip Smolík, Tereza Sloupová, Tereza Fialová, Kateřina Chládková & Nikola Paillereau
Parent-reported Vocabulary and Looking-while-listening in 164 Czech Toddlers: Children Respond More Strongly to Words Reported As Known
Luis Muñoz, Hannah Fatima Kvernberg Dajani, Beatrice Cadier Pedersen, Eivor Fredriksen, Natalia Kartushina & Julien Mayor
Season of Birth Effects on Early Child Language Development: The Role of Maternal Vitamin Supplementation
Cécile Crimon, Anne-Caroline Fiévet, Anne Christophe & Sho Tsuji
Leveraging Early Childhood Care centers to reduce child language development inequalities
20:00 Conference dinner

 

Friday, June 21
09:00-10:00

Keynote
Chair: Jovana Pejovic
Alex Cristia
Babies Babbling in the Wild: Long-Form Recordings to Study Infants' Vocal Development and Speech Environments

10:00-11:00 Oral Session 9
Chair: Julien Mayor 
Joseph R. Coffey, Jesse Snedeker & Elizabeth Spelke
How WEIRD is that? A comparative study of language input and outcomes in Ghana
Ellie Donnelly, Ed Donnellan, Santa Atim, Joanna C. Buryn-Weitzel, Rebecca Crowther, Beatrice Forward, Kirsty E. Graham, Maggie Hoffman, Eve Holden, Michael Jurua, Charlotte V. Knapper, Sophie Marshall, Josephine Paricia, John Sajabi, Georgia Tuohy, Florence Tusiime, Carlo Vreden, Claudia Wilke, Zanna Clay & Katie E. Slocombe
A longitudinal cross-cultural investigation of effects of maternal infant directed speech on infant language development in UK and Uganda
Florencia Alam, Maia J. Migdalek, Alejandra Stein & Celia R. Rosemberg
Questions in child-to child interactions. A study with children from diverse sociocultural groups in Argentina
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Oral Session 10
Chair: Catherine T. Best
Nicola Phillips, M. Fernanda Alonso-Arteche, Samin Moradi, Lulan Shen, Marianne Chen-Ouellet, Leatisha Ramloll, Sumana Abraham, Lucie Ménard & Linda Polka
Exploring the infant talker bias: A novel online listening preference study
Rowena Garcia, Alan Langus & Natalie Boll-Avetisyan
Infants’ sensitivity to sonority sequencing: evidence from behavior and pupillary synchronization
Daniel Swingley & Robin Algayres
Computational modeling of infant word-finding from the phonetic ground up
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Keynote
Chair: Sónia Frota
Thierry Nazzi
The Sound-of-words model: a developmental perspective of phonolexical acquisition
15:00-15:15 Closing session

 


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