LangageOP, Ongoing project
2025 – 2027 Canada In this project, we are testing how infants react to hearing voices that either sound more artificial (machine-like), more human (human-like), or even more familiar (voice clone of the infant’s mother). Project team lead Henny Yeung...
LangageOP, Ongoing project
2025 – 2029 From the periphery, up to the central nervous system, the human auditory pathway analysis the complex acoustic properties of speech sounds. Although these auditory structures are not mature till the end of adolescence, infants efficiently tuned to...
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...
