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Patented baby test toy

If you want to hear me speaking about my patented test toy, watch this video. 

For more info, you can listen to my colleague Jeannine Schwytay and me in this podcast:  #39 - Prof. Dr. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan & Jeannine Schwytay: Per Knopfdruck Babysprachtest. 

2nd truly global /L+/ summer/winter school on language acquisition 2023

We just decided to organize /L+/ again in 2023! The summer/winter school on language acquisition is targeted at students from Africa, South- and Southeast-Asia as well as Central- and South-America. Stay tuned! For more info, see https://www.dpss.unipd.it/summer-school-2021/home 

 Congratulations

Gongratulations to my student Loretta Gasparini, who already won three prizes for her really impressive MA thesis work!

1 - She was nominated for the Absolventenpreis der Universität Potsdam 2021, and was listed as the third best candidate. 

2. - MPaL poster prize

3 - the Metalab 2020 Data Challenge 

Loretta is now a PhD student at the University of Melbourne, and metalab team member and curator of the infant language discrimination data. Our paper that is based on her MA thesis is this one:  Gasparini, L., Langus, A., Tsuji, S. & Boll-Avetisyan, N., (2021). Quantifying the role of rhythm in infants’ language discrimination abilities: A meta-analysis. Cognition. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104757