LangageOP, Ongoing project
2026-2030 Exposure to two languages from birth is increasingly common, yet how the brain develops them in parallel remains unclear. Our aim is to investigate lexical-semantic organisation in bilingual infants, as a lens into the internal structure of bilingual...
LangageOP, Ongoing project
In this cross-linguistic project, we investigate the early development of key abilities in phonolexical acquisition and how these are shaped by the ambient language(s). Using a behavioral method and an interactive word learning approach, we aim to provide an...
LangageOP, Ongoing project
Language acquisition is a key aspect of human development, predicting later school achievements. Phonology and the lexicon both start being acquired early, around 6 months of age. In this project, we test the proposal that a crucial milestone in language acquisition...
LangageOP, Ongoing project
Adaptation of a digital tool (QUILS- Golinkoff, de Villiers, Hirsh-Pasek, Iglesias & Wilson 2017) for the assessment of language skills (vocabulary comprehension, sentence comprehension, word learning) of children (mono- and bilingual) entering kindergarten at age...
LangageOP, Ongoing project
The Iambic-trochaic Law (ITL) is an auditory grouping mechanism according to which sequences of sounds varying in intensity/pitch are grouped as trochees, while those varying in duration are grouped as iambs. We showed that the ITL is modulated by native language,...
