Aoju Chen
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS - Linguistic theory and
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
My research areas are prosody, language development and language processing. My recent research focuses on prosodic development in pre-schoolers and school-age children and individual differences in the development. I lead a research group funded by a VIDI grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). My group investigates the acquisition of prosodic focus marking across languages. I use both off-line and on-line tasks to investigate individual differences in this aspect of prosodic development and determine possible explanations for the observed differences from a longitudinal perspective. Furthermore, I study processing of pitch in the brain in infants and adults and early prosodic development. In addition, I am interested in acquisition of prosody in a second language and the relationship between language development and moral development.
Research Interest
Neuroscience & Cognition Utrecht
Publications
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Romøren, Anna Sara H & Chen, Aoju (19-03-2015). Quiet is the New Loud - Pausing and Focus in Child and Adult Dutch. Language and Speech, 58 (1), (pp. 8-23) (16 p.).
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Chen, A. (2015). Children's use of intonation in reference and the role of input. In L Serratrice & S. Allen (Eds.), The acquisition of reference (pp. 83-104). John Benjamins.
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Rodd, J.J.E. & Chen, A. (2016). Pitch accents show a Perceptual Magnet Effect: Evidence of internal structure in intonation categories.
