Hugo Quené and Jocelyn Ballantyne are on the program of University College Utrecht‘s 20th Anniversary Festival with a lecture entitled The UCU accent project: what’s unique about UCU English? (See www.uu.nl/en/events/ucu-festival.) The UCU accent project studies phonetic convergence in a multilingual environment. For a majority of students and teachers at University College Utrecht English, the…

Language Impairment in the 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. Whistler, B.C., Canada, July 12. Co-authors: S. Duijff, E. Everaert, E. Gerrits, I. Selten, J. Vorstman, F. Wijnen. http://22qsociety.org/meetings/whistler_2018_programs  

de Boer, J.N., Voppel, A.E., Begemann, M.J.H., Schnack, H.G., Wijnen, F., & Sommer, I.E.C. (2018) Clinical use of semantic space models in psychiatry and neurology: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. (online 8 June 2018) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.06.008 Chen, Ao, Peter, V., Wijnen, F., Schnack, H., & Burnham, D. (2018). Are lexical tones musical?…

Silvia Radulescu and co-workers will present at the 2018 Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference (Berlin, 6-8 September): Silvia Radulescu, Mridhula Murali, Sergey Avrutin, & Frank Wijnen. When attention distraction helps rule induction. An entropy model. (oral presentation) Silvia Radulescu, Efi Giannopoulou, Sergey Avrutin, & Frank Wijnen. Item-bound vs Category-based Generalizations. An entropy model. (poster)  

Group members Maartje de Klerk, Ileana Grama, and Frank Wijnen presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies (Philadelphia, 30 June – 3 July): Maartje de Klerk, Duco Veen (UU, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences), Elise de Bree (University of Amsterdam), & Frank Wijnen. Assessment of individual phoneme discrimination performance in dutch infants using the…