Abdel
massnsn.bsky.social
Abdel
@massnsn.bsky.social
PhD candidate @CLS @MPI

Language acquisition, Tashlhiyt, Phon.
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RESCHEDULED for July 17th, "Segmental Acoustics of Tashlhiyt Berber’s Infant-Directed Speech: How do Caregivers Modify Vowels and Consonants in a Complex Phonological System" with Abdellah Elouatiq at 6:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM CEST / 8:00 AM EDT. Join here: hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/62482000502
July 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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On May 15th Parul Bhardwaj & Sakshi Bhatia (Uni. Delhi) present the next LangVIEW seminar, "Acquiring Hindi-Urdu Causatives" at 18:00 IST / 14:30 CEST / 8:00 AM EDT. Link: hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/66954584749

View the abstract and join the LangView mailing list here: groups.google.com/g/langview/c...
May 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Our meta-meta-analysis is officially out! (w/ Molly Lewis, Sho Tsuji, @chbergma.bsky.social, @acristia.bsky.social, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social!)

Estimating age-related change in infants’ linguistic and cognitive development using (meta-)meta-analysis

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Estimating Age‐Related Change in Infants' Linguistic and Cognitive Development Using (Meta‐)Meta‐Analysis
Developmental psychology focuses on how psychological constructs change with age. In cognitive development research, however, the specifics of this emergence is often underspecified. Researchers ofte...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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👶👶👶 #AmazingTots
theconversation.com/babies-as-yo...

🆓🔓🆕 Altuntas E Best CT Kalashnikova M Götz A & Burnham D (2025). Phonological Feature Abstraction Before 6 Months: Amodal Recognition of Place of Artic across Multiple Consonants. Devel sci 28(2) e13605. doi.org/10.1111/desc...

🦋 #bskySPEECHIES
Babies as young as 4 months can tell how the sounds of different languages are made – new research
The findings shake up previous ideas about language learning – and give us an earlier window to help children who might be at risk of speech or language delays.
theconversation.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Hilton, Twomey & @gertwestermann.bsky.social (2024): training caregivers to run lab-based word learning task ⬆️ familiarity. 2yo children’s shyness unrelated to initial novel word mapping; shyer children showed better subsequent retention of mappings #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Caregivers as experimenters: Reducing unfamiliarity helps shy children learn words
Previous work has found that shy children show chance-level disambiguation and retention of novel word meanings in a typical lab-based word learning task. This effect could be explained in terms of s...
doi.org
January 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Milestone: Submit your first manuscript.
December 18, 2024 at 11:04 AM