I’ve been a keen podcast listener for quite a few years. If I’m completely honest, my listening has mainly been restricted to BBC Radio 4 programmes and their spin-offs, but over the past year or so I’ve spread my podcast wings and started to listen to a wider variety, from the now classic American Serial […]
Mathilde Jansen van NEMO kennislink heeft een mooi artikel geschreven over haar bezoek met zoon Nils naar het Kletskoppen kindertaalfestival. Dit vond eind september voor het eerst in Den Haag plaats. Fijn om te lezen dat het voor zowel moeder als kind een geslaagde dag was! Photo: Mathilde Jansen voor NEMO kennislink
At the 2in1 project we’re currently looking for students (or recent graduates) to help with various research projects testing bilingual and monolingual children. In particular, we’re looking for native speakers of Dutch, German and Turkish. We’re also looking for a (Research) Masters student to help out with coding and analysing some sentence repetition data. All […]
Kletskoppen is going on tour! On September 29th, we’ll be taking over the central library in The Hague for a special edition of our beloved child language festival. Expect all the usual language science demos and quizzes, and much, much more. I’ll be at the Meet the Expert stand to talk to parents about raising […]
Josje Verhagen, Elise de Bree and I just heard that our paper “Effects of bilingual language use and language proficiency on 24-month-olds’ cognitive control” has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Cognition and Development. Hurrah! In this paper, which is very much Josje’s work, we show that cognitive control performance in bilingual toddlers […]
Just before the summer holidays, the Kletskoppen team was awarded the Faculty of Arts’ Prijs der Humanoria for our child language festival. Here’s me and Kletskoppen coordinator, Pim Franssen, picking up the award (€5000 and this lovely certificate).
Our paper on the role of non-native input is now available online on the Applied Psycholinguistics website (click here). Open Access to follow soon!
Members of the 2in1 project and the Kletskoppen team will be in Rotterdam on May 2nd for the Expeditie Next science festival, organised by the Nationale Wetenschapsagenda. Come along and play our interactive language games, test your knowledge of the languages of the world with our quiz and be interviewed as part of our new […]
My former PhD student, Claire Goriot, has just had the third paper from her thesis accepted for publication, in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. It’s on “Differences in phonological awareness performance: Are there positive or negative effects of bilingual experience?”. Link to follow once it’s online.
Sharon Unsworth 