On 8 March 2024 Annika van der Klis successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled Caregiver-infant interactions and child vocabulary.

Researchers from the 3T research, a major study by Utrecht University and UMC Utrecht on language, attention and memory, published a new guideline for speech-language therapists working with children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. You can read more here.

De legpuzzel van een taalontwikkelingsstoornis: Vroeggeboorte, slaapproblemen en rokende moeder mogelijke voorspellers Interview on the findings of the recently published paper Boerma, T., Ter Haar, S., Ganga, R., Wijnen, F., Blom, E., & Wierenga, C. J. (2023). What risk factors for Developmental Language Disorder can tell us about the neurobiological mechanisms of language development. Neuroscience…

Tessel Boerma has been awarded an Open Competition (V) grant for the project From brain to behavior: cascading effects of early brain, cognitive and motor development on language ability in children born extremely preterm. For more information see here (Round 4).

Elena Tribushinina has been awarded an Open Competition (M) grant for a project on bilingual advantages in foreign language learning. For more information see here.

On April 26, Emma Everaert defended her doctoral dissertation entitled “‘Language Impairment and Executive Functioning in Children: The 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome as an Etiologically Homogeneous Model for Developmental Language Disorder”. (see newsletter)

Hugo Quené and Jocelyn Ballantyne are on the program of University College Utrecht‘s 20th Anniversary Festival with a lecture entitled The UCU accent project: what’s unique about UCU English? (See www.uu.nl/en/events/ucu-festival.) The UCU accent project studies phonetic convergence in a multilingual environment. For a majority of students and teachers at University College Utrecht English, the…

de Boer, J.N., Voppel, A.E., Begemann, M.J.H., Schnack, H.G., Wijnen, F., & Sommer, I.E.C. (2018) Clinical use of semantic space models in psychiatry and neurology: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. (online 8 June 2018) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.06.008 Chen, Ao, Peter, V., Wijnen, F., Schnack, H., & Burnham, D. (2018). Are lexical tones musical?…

Group members Maartje de Klerk, Ileana Grama, and Frank Wijnen presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies (Philadelphia, 30 June – 3 July): Maartje de Klerk, Duco Veen (UU, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences), Elise de Bree (University of Amsterdam), & Frank Wijnen. Assessment of individual phoneme discrimination performance in dutch infants using the…