Project ZINnig (Project senTENCEsible in good English!) has won the prestigious SIA RAAK Award 2020! SIA RAAK is the Taskforce for Applied Research. The mandate of SIA RAAK is to improve the quality and widen the impact of the applied research done by Universities of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. Project ZINnig (https://husite.nl/zinnig/) was developed…

On the occasion of the European Day of Speech and Language Therapy on 6 March 2021 with the topic eHealth, see https://www.nvlf.nl/nieuws/dag-van-de-logopedie-2021/, the Research Group Speech and Language Therapy – Participation is Communication of HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Tjitske Bootsma, Rob Zwitserlood, and Ellen Gerrits) launched the Guide for Speech and Language Therapists…

Huang, A., Ursini, F. A., & Meroni, L. (2021). Portioning-Out and Individuation in Mandarin Non-interrogative wh-Pronominal Phrases: Experimental Evidence From Child Mandarin. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 3296. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.592281    

Dr. Tessel Boerma is one of the six scholars from the Faculty of Humanities that will receive a NWO Veni grant this year. The grant will enable her to further develop her research ideas, for a period of 3 years. Her project “Language as predictor of psychosis in the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome” investigates language in relation…

Tribushinina, E., Irmawati, M., & Mak, P. (2021). Macrostructure in the narratives of Indonesian-Dutch bilinguals: Relation to age and exposure. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.20015.tri

de Klerk, M., de Bree, E., Veen, D., & Wijnen, F. (2021). Speech discrimination in infants at family risk of dyslexia: Group and individual-based analyses. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 206, 105066; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105066   Highlights: Hybrid visual fixation was used to compare speech perception in family risk (FR) and no family risk (NFR) infants. FR…

October 26, 2018: Marjolein van Egmond was promoted to Doctor after having successfully defended her dissertation Zipf’s law in aphasic speech.  More about Marjolein’s project and her results can be found here.

van Doornik, Anniek, Gerrits, P.A.M., McLeod, Sharynne & Terband, H.R. (2018). Impact of communication partner familiarity and speech accuracy on parents’ ratings of their child for the Intelligibility in Context Scale: Dutch. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(3), 350-360.  https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2018.1472808 Abstract Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the role of familiarity of…

At AMLaP 2018 (Berlin), our PhD candidate Silvia Radulescu received a prize awarded by the SFB Information Density and Linguistic Encoding at Saarland University http://www.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de for her talk When Attention Distraction Helps Rule Induction. An Entropy Model, with co-authors Mridhula Murali, Sergey Avrutin and Frank Wijnen. Silvia is also first author of a poster at…

de Klerk, M., de Bree, E.H., Kerkhoff, A.O., & Wijnen, F. (2018). Lost and found: Decline and reemergence of non-native vowel discrimination in the first year of life. Language Learning and Development. Published online 3 August 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2018.1497490 Gerard, J., Lidz, J., Zuckerman, S., & Pinto, M. (2018). The acquisition of adjunct control is colored…