Audun Rosslund
audunrosslund.bsky.social
Audun Rosslund
@audunrosslund.bsky.social
babies are cool
Do parents exaggerate the pronunciation of words they believe their infants don’t know yet? Our new paper suggests no. ❌ w/ @julienmayor.bsky.social & @nataliakartushina.bsky.social 🧵 1/ #DevSci #langsky #devpsy
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November 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Do older siblings help or hinder language development? And does it matter if they’re sisters or brothers? In our new paper we revisit the "birth order effect"... and took it a step further! w/ @julienmayor.bsky.social, Nora Serres and Natalia Kartushina 🙌 🧵 1/ #DevSci #langsky #devpsy
<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library
Growing up with multiple siblings might negatively affect language development. This study examined the associations between birth order, sibling characteristics and parent-reported vocabulary size i....
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May 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
New paper out! Following from our work on vowels and prosody in infant-directed speech, we turned our attention to features of consonants and their role in language development. Great collab (as always!) w/ @julienmayor.bsky.social, Nina Varjola and Natalia Kartushina 🧵 1/ #DevSci #langsky #devpsy
Longitudinal changes in consonant production in infant-directed speech and infants’ early speech production from 6 to 12 months
Previous research suggests that acoustic features of infant-directed speech (IDS) might be beneficial for infants’ language development. However, cons…
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January 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Interested in doing a PhD on language acquisition in Oslo?

Check application process: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... and feel free to reach out for more information!

PS. We have a nice growing community including Natalia Kartushina, Luca Onnis, @audunrosslund.bsky.social, and many more!
Doctoral research fellowships in linguistics and verbal communication (272418) | University of Oslo
Job title: Doctoral research fellowships in linguistics and verbal communication (272418), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025
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December 18, 2024 at 2:43 PM
12 months of data collection, 317 lab sessions, 22,958 phrases, 54,594 vowels, and a gazillion supplementary tables later... proud to say that our longitudinal study on the acoustics of infant-directed speech is now out! 👶🧵 1/ #DevSci #langsky #devpsy

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A longitudinal investigation of the acoustic properties of infant-directed speech from 6 to 18 months | Royal Society Open Science
Caregivers often modulate their speech when interacting with infants, adapting a register that has been suggested to have attentional, affective and didactic purposes. The present preregistered study ...
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November 29, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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Developmental Cognitive Scientists by @deontbenton.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Can't get enough of infant habituation designs!?💥 In our new paper, @julienmayor.bsky.social, Alex Cristia, Natalia Kartushina and I tested native and non-native vowel discrimination in 6-month-old Norwegian infants using eye-tracking. 👶👀 1/
Native and non-native vowel discrimination in 6-month-old Norwegian infants
In the current preregistered study, we tested n = 67 6-month-old Norwegian infants’ discrimination of a native vowel contrast /y-i/ and a non-native (…
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October 24, 2024 at 1:34 PM
🚨 New paper! 🚨 Myself, @julienmayor.bsky.social and Natalia Kartushina investigated the relationship between shared reading, screen time, and vocabulary size in n=1,442 Norwegian infants from diverse SES backgrounds. Spoiler alert: Get out those books! 📚👶 1/5
Associations between shared book reading, daily screen time and infants’ vocabulary size | Journal of Child Language | Cambridge Core
Associations between shared book reading, daily screen time and infants’ vocabulary size
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September 20, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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GOOD MORNING BLUESKY!
Very excited about this new paper:

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300671120

Key Q: what predicts how much young kids (👶)talk?

How much 🗣 kids heard predicted how much 👶talked, but other factors, e.g. mom’s education, didn’t. #PsychSci #DevPsy 🗣💬

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December 13, 2023 at 2:52 PM
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I am also excited to announce a call for papers for our special issue on Metaphor Comprehension Development (in @langdevres.bsky.social) 🙌

Submissions due March 1st, 2024 - for more information about the call please visit the journal website: ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu
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November 20, 2023 at 8:16 PM
Trying over here as well: Which textbook are people using for language acquisition courses these days? 👶🏻📚
October 4, 2023 at 7:27 AM
Looking for picture book-type stimuli for your lang dev study? 📚👶🏻 We uploaded two books for anyone to use/adapt! “Stunning colors”, “A master storyteller”, “Riveting character development” says Norwegian infants. Find them at osf.io/v5e9d/ and osf.io/smzj2/.
September 30, 2023 at 12:08 PM