Talks at conferences and workshops

2019

J. Egger, C. Rowland, & C. Bergmann. Linking parental responsiveness to infants’ vocabulary and processing ability. At the paEpsy meeting 2019 in Leipzig, Germany, on September 09-12.

C. Bergmann. Dynamically aggregating evidence in community-augmented meta-analyses. (Keynote). At Research Synthesis 2019 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on May 27-31

S. Tsuji, A. Cristia, M.C. Frank, & C. Bergmann. Addressing publication bias in meta-analysis: Empirical findings from community-augmented meta-analyses of infant language development. At Research Synthesis 2019 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on May 27-31

J. Egger, C. Rowland, & C. Bergmann. Linking Dutch infants’ speed of processing to vocabulary size at 18 months. At the 7th conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC7) in Aarhus, Denmark, on May 22-24

C. Bergmann. Can developmental science provide some practical solutions to improve transparency? At the 2 Day Workshop: Open Science and Reproducibility in Aarhus, Denmark, on March 12-13.

C. Bergmann. A meta-analytic view on interpreting null results and designing informative studies. At the International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS) in Paris, France, on March 7-9.

C. Bergmann. Can large-scale replication projects serve as best practice models for single researchers? At the International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS) in Paris, France, on March 7-9.

2018

C. Bergmann. Opportunities and limitations of cross-laboratory data: Lessons from meta-analyses and large-scale collaborations. At the Workshop Language acquisition across cultures and methodological approaches, Aarhus, Denmark, on December 14.

C. Bergmann. Beyond single results: Aggregating evidence in open, dynamic meta-analysis. At the 51st Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) in Frankfurt, Germany, on September 17-20. (Slides)

C. Bergmann. How many babies should I test? What we can learn from 14 meta-analyses. At the XXI International Congress for Infant Studies (ICIS) Biennial Conference in Philadelphia, USA, on July 1-3. (Slides)

C. Bergmann. The path to high-powered studies: Insights from developmental psycholinguistics. At MPI Proudly Presents in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, on June 20.

2017

C. Bergmann on behalf of the ManyBabies Consortium. A multi-site collaborative approach to infant research: The ManyBabies project. At the 18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on August 30 - September 1

C. Bergmann, S. Tsuji, & A. Cristia. Top-down versus bottom-up theories of phonological acquisition: A big data approach. At Interspeech 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden on August 20-24

A. Black & C. Bergmann. Quantifying infants' statistical word segmentation: A meta-analysis. At the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in London, UK on July 26-29

C. Bergmann, S. Tsuji, P. Piccinini, M. Lewis, M. Braginsky, M.C. Frank, & A. Cristia. Tracing the emergence of native-language abilities through combined meta-analyses. At the 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) in Lyon, France on July 17-21

C. Bergmann, A. Cristia, & E. Dupoux. Quantifying structured variance in the signal across three large speech corpora. At the 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) in Lyon, France on July 17-21

A. Black & C. Bergmann. Segmenting artificial languages in infancy: A meta-analytic view. At the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning in Bilbao, Spain on June 28-30, 2017

C. Bergmann. A meta-analytic view on language acquisition: Gaining new insights from "old" data. Invited talk at Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research (EMLAR) XIII in Utrecht, The Netherlands on April 19-21

2016

C. Bergmann. Data Visualisation in Biological Sciences. Invited talk at Research Data Visualisation Workshop (RDVW) in Manchester, UK, on July 28

C. Bergmann & A. Cristia. The impact of speaker variability in daily life on native vowel discrimination in the first year. At the 2016 International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS) in New Orleans, USA on May 26-28

2015

S. Tsuji & C. Bergmann. Language Acquisition Meta-Analyzed. At the Journée du GDR (Groupe de Recherche) Neurosciences Cognitives du Développement (Developmental Cognitive Neurosciences) in Paris, France on November 26

C. Bergmann & A. Cristia. Can more be better or is less more? Talker variability and native vowel discrimination in the first year of life. At the 40th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, USA on November 13-15

M. Lewis, M. Braginsky, C. Bergmann, S. Tsuji, A. Cristia, & M. Frank. MetaLab: A tool for power analysis and experimental planning in developmental research. At the 40th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, USA on November 13-15

S. Tsuji & C. Bergmann. Infant Phonology Meta-Analyzed. At Atelier Phonologie in Paris, France on October 21

C. Bergmann, S. Tsuji, & A. Cristia. Keeping up with child development: community-augmented meta-analyses. At the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) in Philadelphia, USA on March 19-21

2014

C. Bergmann & A. Cristia. Segmenting words from real speech: A meta-analysis and public database. At the 39th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) in Boston, USA on November 7-9

C. Bergmann. Computational models of early language acquisition: The role of the task and different speakers. At Atelier Phonologie in Paris, France on October 22

C. Bergmann. The role of different voices in language acquisition: Computational predictions and experimental data. At the Journée du GDR (Groupe de Recherche) Neurosciences Cognitives du Développement (Developmental Cognitive Neurosciences) in Paris, France on September 26

C. Bergmann, S. Tsuji, & A. Cristia. More than the sum of the parts: Community-augmented databases. At the 13th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on July 14-18

C. Bergmann & T. Benders. Bridging the gap between computational modelling and experimental research on infant language acquisition. Invited presentation at NET (Netwerk Erste Taalverwerving; Network First Language Acquisition) Symposium in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on March 21

2013

C. Bergmann. Task and measurement effects: Can computational modelling help? Invited talk at the Lorentz Workshop "Modelling meets infant studies in language acquisition" in Leiden, The Netherlands on September 9-13 Presentation Slides via workshop website

C. Bergmann. The potential role of variability in language acquistion: Insights from computational modelling. Invited talk at the Workshop “Computational Models in Category Learning” in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on March 14 Presentation Slides

2012

C. Bergmann. Insights into the potential role of variability and attention in language acquisition: An overview of two modelling studies. Invited presentation at the Kickoff Workshop "Segments and Rules" in Overveen, The Netherlands on December 20

C. Bergmann, L. ten Bosch, M. Versteegh, & L. Boves. A Computational Model of the Headturn Preference Procedure: Design, Challenges, and Insights. At the 13th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW) in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain on July 12-14 Presentation Slides

C. Bergmann. A Computational Model of Word Learning: The role of variation and generalisation. Invited presentation at NET (Netwerk Erste Taalverwerving; Network First Language Acquisition) Symposium in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on March 9 Presentation Slides

C. Bergmann, M. Versteegh, L. ten Bosch, M. Gubian, L. Boves, & P. Fikkert. A Computational Model of Language Acquisition. At TiN dag (Taalwetenschap in Nederland; Linguistics in the Netherlands) in Utrecht, The Netherlands on February 4

2011

M. Versteegh, C. Bergmann, & P. Fikkert. Modelling Statistical Learning: Limits and Challenges. At Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) 2011 in Thessaloniki, Greece on September 6-8

C. Bergmann, L. ten Bosch, & L. Boves. Thresholding word activations for response scoring - Modelling psycholinguistic data. At Interspeech 2011 in Florence, Italy on August 28-31

C. Bergmann, L. ten Bosch, & L. Boves. Measuring Word Learning Performance in Computational Models and Infants. At the IEEE Conference on Development and Learning, Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-Epirob) 2011 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany on August 24-27 Presentation Slides

C. Bergmann & M. Versteegh. Computational Modelling between Psycholinguistics and Speech Technology. Invited talk at the Symposium "Data driven theorizing: challenges in linguistics and humanities" in Nijmegen, The Netherlands on April 7

2010

C. Bergmann, M. Gubian, & L. Boves. Modelling the effect of speaker familiarity and noise on infant word recognition. At Interspeech 2010 in Makuhari, Chiba, Japan on September 27-30 Presentation Slides

C. Bergmann, M. Gubian, & L. Boves. Looking into the memory structures of an artificial word learning agent. At the 31st TABU Dag in Groningen, The Netherlands on June 3-4 Presentation Slides

2009

C. Bergmann, M. Paulus, & P. Fikkert. A closer look at pronoun comprehension: Comparing different methods. At Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal on September 9-11

C. Bergmann, M. Paulus, & P. Fikkert. Acquisition of Pronouns in Preschoolers: Does Production Precede Comprehension? At the 51st Conference of Experimental Psychologists (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, TeaP) in Jena, Germany on March 29 - April 1 Presentation Slides

C. Bergmann, M. Paulus, & P. Fikkert. A closer look at pronoun comprehension: Comparing different methods. At the 31st Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Germany (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft) DGfS in Osnabrück, Germany on March 4-6 Presentation Slides