Program

Wednesday, June 04 2025.

Day 1

08:00 – 08:50 Welcome coffee and registration

08:50 – 09:00 Opening remarks

Oral Session 1 09:00 – 10:40

09:00 – 09:20 OS.1.1 Monolingual and bilingual French-speaking toddlers are sensitive to mispronunciations at 21 months

09:20 – 09:40 OS.1.2 The development of language-based preferences for speakers in monolingual and bilingual infants in the first year of life

09:40 – 10:00 OS.1.3 Neural signatures of accent processing in bilingual infants

10:00 – 10:20 OS.1.4 What’s in a word? Word comprehension in English-learning infants with varying exposure to the locally-dominant variety

10:20 – 10:40 OS.1.5 The effects of speaker familiarity on lexical-semantic processing in mono- and bilingual infants and toddlers

10:40 – 11:10 Coffee break

Oral Session 2 11:10 – 13:10

11:10 – 11:30 OS.2.1 Episodic processing in newborns: Speaker identity yields distinct verbal memory traces at birth

11:30 – 11:50 OS.2.2 Akan-learning multilingual infants segment words in fluent speech using tongue root harmony cues

11:50 – 12:10 OS.2.3 Infants’ sonority sequencing preference: Evidence from German and Japanese

12:10 – 12:30 OS.2.4 Cross-linguistic word segmentation in monolingual infants: An ERP study

12:30 – 12:50 OS.2.5 Is it my turn? And ERP study to investigate the processing of conversational turn taking in bilingual infants

12:50 – 13:10 OS.2.6 Speech register effects on word segmentation at 9 months and its relationship to vocabulary size at 12 months

13:10 – 15:00 Lunch break

Keynote Address 1

15:00 – 16:30 Leher Singh Expanding the Framework of Perceptual Narrowing: Evidence from Multilingual and Socioeconomically Diverse Infants

Poster Session 1 16:30 – 18:00

P1.01 Audiovisual speech integration in children with autism

P1.02 Can Bilingual Infants Infer the Languages Others Know?

P1.03 Infants’ Discrimination of Native Vowels: Effects of Bilingualism and Familial Risk of Dyslexia

P1.04 A Longitudinal Study of Visual and Acoustic Hyper-Articulation in Infant Directed Speech

P1.05 Baby vs. Machine: Do infants prefer listening to natural or synthesised infant vocalisations?

P1.06 Infant-directed songs as a language source: Do infants segment words from playsongs?

P1.07 Motherese vs. Fatherese: Distinct acoustic strategies in Czech IDS

P1.08 No evidence that Norwegian parents tailor infant-directed speech based on attributed word knowledge

P1.09 Parent and community: Realistically, how much do toddlers struggle with accents?

P1.10 The impact of infants’ language background and speaker race on language expectations

P1.11 The Role of Lexical Stress in Early Word Learning in Monolinguals and Bilinguals

P1.12 Detecting foreign rhythm in native-language speech at birth

P1.13 Can agreement marking benefit infants?

P1.14 Maximal Onset Principle: a mechanism for detecting syllables in newborns?

P1.15 Language Dominance Modulates Lexically-Driven Statistical Learning

P1.16 Lexical processing as a predictor of language development in bilingual infants

P1.17 Development of hemispheric lateralization of lexical pitch processing: A cross-linguistic fNIRS study in Dutch and Japanese infants

P1.18 Neural speech processing in dyslexia risk: Early predictors for atypical reading development

P1.19 Habituation and novelty detection in monolingual and bilingual infants: A fNIRS study

P1.20 Refining EEG preprocessing pipelines for consistent neural tracking in infants: A test-retest reliability analysis

P1.21 Preference matters: Young children learn better in their preferred learning method

P1.22 Rapid label-referent mapping with vocoded speech in young infants

P1.23 Regional analysis of vocabulary development in infants from Tennessee’s Great Appalachian Valley

P1.24 Systematicity in the early Norwegian lexicon: Similar word forms cue similar word meanings

P1.25 The development of the infant vocal tract: An ultrasound study

P1.26 Mean Length Utterance (MLU) in Tsimane: A comparative study of conversational partners

P1.27 Prompted revisions: A window into speech production development in toddlers

P1.28 Lexical stress perception of trisyllabic pseudowords by Spanish-learning infants growing up in Colombia

P1.29 Discrimination of Korean consonant contrasts by French-learning Infants: Implications on developmental accounts on perception

P1.30 Infant attention to talking and singing faces: A head-mounted eye-tracking study

P1.31 Developing auditory-visual integration of intonation and facial expression from 6 to 10 months

P1.32 Individual differences in the discrimination of native and non-native phonetic contrasts related to native language processing and language exposure patterns

P1.33 Not all foreign contrasts are easy to discriminate for young infants: Non-discrimination of a Salish (Nthlakampx) contrast by Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, and French 5-month-old infants

P1.34 Infant preference for different perceptual cue trading relations after familiarization

P1.35 The role of innate knowledge in preverbal infants’ use of prosody to signal requests versus comments

P1.36 The acoustical development of preverbal vocalizations in 5- to 10-month-old Japanese infants

P1.37 The ability of 3-month-old infants to detect syllables in noisy environments as revealed by electroencephalography

P1.38 Word segmentation in familiar and unfamiliar accents: An infant EEG study

P1.39 Handwriting sonification: Transforming movement into sound to promote written language acquisition

P1.40 Does babbling shape speech sound discrimination? An Event-Related Potentials study (ERP): final results

Thursday, June 05 2025.

Day 2

Oral Session 3 09:00 – 11:00

09:00 – 09:20 OS.3.1 Explaining the reduced comprehension-production gap in Williams Syndrome: Evidence from cross-sectional data and artificial neural networks

09:20 – 09:40 OS.3.2 Variability constrains word learning and generalization: A neurocomputational account

09:40 – 10:00 OS.3.3 Phonological generalization increases robustness to variability in models of statistical word segmentation

10:00 – 10:20 OS.3.4 The Origins of Phonology and Lexicon in Infancy (OPAL): EEG evidence of phonological abstraction before perceptual attunement

10:20 – 10:40 OS.3.5 The role of perceptual attunement during the 1st year of life in later vocabulary development in Japanese infants

10:40 – 11:00 OS.3.6 Protracted development in toddlers’ understanding of phonetically reduced English nouns

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Keynote Address 2 11:30 – 13:00

Emmanuel Dupoux: Can machine learning help understand early language acquisition? Holistic simulations and what we can learn from them.

13:00 – 15:00 Lunch break

Oral Session 4 15:00 – 16:40

15:00 – 15:20 OS.4.1 Early vocal self-recognition as a window on the emergence of intentional communication

15:20 – 15:40 OS.4.2 Articulating while listening? The perception-production link in early infancy

15:40 – 16:00 OS.4.3 Uncertainty in word learning in 14-month-olds

16:00 – 16:20 OS.4.4 Unlocking the relationship between phonological working memory and language in infancy: The role of vocal production

16:20 – 16:40 OS.4.5 COVID-19 measures negatively impacted early vocabulary development

Poster Session 2 16:40 – 18:00

P2.01 Evaluating 4.5-month-old infants’ preference for self-vocalisations during vocal play

P2.02 Negative sibling effects revised: When a sibling becomes a caregiver

P2.03 Cross-cultural differences between Korean and Japanese mothers’ speech to 18-month-olds in a name-teaching task

P2.04 Describing fish or sharing stories? A comparative study of French and Japanese maternal speech to 18-month-old children

P2.05 Dialectal variability shapes early language development: evidence from mispronunciation sensitivity in 13-month-old infants

P2.06 Exploring the impact of prosodic training on early language development: A pilot and feasibility study

P2.07 The role of diversity in language environment on multilingual children’s vocabulary size

P2.08 Longitudinal differences in language input and vocabulary development between preterm and full-term infants across the first 2 years of life

P2.09 The influence of code-mixing on referential word recognition

P2.10 Infants’ sensitivity to the Maximal Onset Principle for decoding syllabic units

P2.11 Mutual exclusivity in infants: How syntax and animacy shape word learning

P2.12 Speech characteristics and communication repair in children

P2.13 Zipfian frequency distributions facilitate infants’ speech segmentation

P2.14 Tracking the emergence of sound symbolism during early language acquisition: an ERP study in French-learning infants

P2.15 How similar are language skills among family members in early childhood? A systematic review of nuclear family associations

P2.16 Neural and Behavioral Evidence of Early Sensitivity to Text in Pre-reading Toddlers

P2.17 Neurolip: Investigating infants' neural processing of mouth movements during continuous speech

P2.18 Neural signatures of accent processing in bilingual infants

P2.19 Early neural responses to speech: linking language exposure and cortical tracking in 2- and 4-month-old bilingual infants

P2.20 Neural indices of statistical learning in infancy associated with concurrent language skills at 24-months of age in a sample of South African infants

P2.21 Babble and the brain: Babble becomes more left lateralised as babies gain articulatory experience

P2.22 The differential roles of sleep and tiredness in infant novel word learning

P2.23 The role of caregivers' responses to infants' gestures in predicting vocabulary outcomes

P2.24 Toddlers’ word recognition: Comparing a story-based pupillometry paradigm to a looking-while-listening paradigm

P2.25 The effects of deictic gestures on novel word learning in infants

P2.26 The Goldilocks problem of early word learning: Providing just right amount of context

P2.27 How dyadic manual and visual exploration dynamics affect word learning in full-term and preterm children? A headcam study

P2.28 Statistical word segmentation in monolingual Catalan and Spanish infants and Catalan-Spanish bilinguals: A pupillometry study on vowel reduction

P2.29 VocalBaby: A tool for classifying infant vocalizations

P2.30 Cross-linguistic differences in infants’ phonotactic sensitivities to regularities involving low-salient fricatives

P2.31 Developmental patterns of early speech segmentation in Korean and Japanese learners

P2.32 Early prosodic boundary perception: Innate biases in preterm newborns

P2.33 English and French infants discriminate word-medial consonant sequences

P2.34 Infant attention to auditory stimuli: Replicating and extending the Goldilocks effect

P2.35 The role of social cues in infants’ word segmentation when interacting with a Furhat Robot

P2.36 French-learning 9-month-old infants’ ability to segment non-native speech

P2.37 The effect of neural immaturity after gestational diabetes on rapid auditory processing abilities in newborns

P2.38 Relation between 12-month-old joint attention skill and later 24-month-old expressive vocabulary size: A cross-cultural comparison study

P2.39 Children drink the whole bottle first and then cry over the spilled milk: Progress in the Understanding of Different Figurative Language Phenomena

20:00 Conference dinner* (*For attendees who completed the dinner registration)

Friday, June 06 2025.

Day 3

Keynote Address 3

09:30 – 11:00 Sarah Lloyd-Fox
The power of longitudinal designs to understand early infant language development

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

Oral Session 5 11:30 – 13:10

11:30 – 11:50 OS.5.1 Infant-directed speech facilitates infants’ encoding of acoustic information in continuous speech

11:50 – 12:10 OS.5.2 Midline frontal theta modulations, neural tracking and word segmentation in speech and song in 10-month-old infants

12:10 – 12:30 OS.5.3 Electrophysiological maturation predicts speech processing in infancy: Evidence from neural tracking of naturalistic speech

12:30 – 12:50 OS.5.4 Asymmetric pupil response to speech and music in toddlers with cochlear implants

12:50 – 13:10 OS.5.5 Interactive shared reading enhances infants’ predictive brain signal

13:10 – 15:00 Lunch break

Oral Session 6 15:00 – 16:20

15:00 – 15:20 OS.6.1 How language experiences relate to children’s language output: Evidence from long-form recordings in 40 Solomon Islands villages

15:20 – 15:40 OS.6.2 Identifying key-child-directed speech in long-form recordings: An automatic parametric approach

15:40 – 16:00 OS.6.3 Prepare to learn: The effect of IDS on infants’ attention for and learning of novel words

16:00 – 16:20 OS.6.4 Reliability of acoustic measures of infant-directed speech between lab and home environments and play and reading contexts

Closing remarks 16:20 - 16:30

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