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Anna Caunt @annacaunt.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The beauty of studying for a PhD by the sea 🩵 enjoying my final south-west summer 🩵love ya Plymouth🌊

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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Child language development expert here. No. The answer is absolutely not. So-called baby talk is culturally specific. Developing language is not. #linguistics

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Anna Caunt @annacaunt.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Enjoying my wee research stay at UCL 📚🤓 - a lovely study spot to hide from the rain!

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Anna Caunt @annacaunt.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I look forward to giving a talk next week on the first two studies in my thesis at the UCL SSF, more info here :) www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

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Speech Science Forum - Anna Caunt

Growing up in Multilingual London: Caregiver Beliefs and Everyday Language Input

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Natalie Boll-Avetisyan @natalieboll.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

How do multilingual babies acquire their languages? In Africa, multilingualism is the norm. In our new study with 9-11 month old Ghanaian babies learning up to 5 languages simultaneously, we found that they were able to recognize words in text passages in Akan, one of their languages.

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Tongue root harmony cues for speech segmentation in multilingually raised infants learning languages with and without vowel harmony in Ghana (Africa) | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition | Cambridge...

Tongue root harmony cues for speech segmentation in multilingually raised infants learning languages with and without vowel harmony in Ghana (Africa)

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Anna Caunt @annacaunt.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Thrilled to share my first first-authored publication from my PhD! My article, "Exploring differences between mothers’ and fathers’ language attitudes in multilingual London", is now out in the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development! 🎉 Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Exploring differences between mothers’ and fathers’ language attitudes in multilingual London

This study investigated the language attitudes of parents raising multilingual infants in London. Using a newly developed questionnaire, 131 mothers and fathers rated their attitudes towards their ...

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Anna Caunt @annacaunt.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Excited to share a new paper I collaborated on during my research stay at the University of Heidelberg! A systematic review of (semi-)automatic tools for studying early speech and language development! Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

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From data to discovery: Technology propels speech-language research and theory-building in developmental science

Research on speech and language development has a long history, but in the past decade, it has been transformed by advances in recording technologies,…

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Anna Caunt @annacaunt.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Cheers to my first publication acceptance of my PhD 🥂 & to springtime in my lovely Devon garden 🌸. 'Exploring Differences between Mothers' and Fathers' Language Attitudes in Multilingual London' written with my amazing supervisor, Rana Abu-Zhaya, out soon! 🤓

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Anna Caunt @annacaunt.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

My last day at the Systemic Ethology and Developmental Science unit (SEE) at University of Heidelberg. I have had a lovely 4 weeks in Germany and learnt alot :) Back to Plymouth!

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Anna Caunt @annacaunt.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

Join us for the LangVIEW April Seminar! Assistant Professor Ryan E. Henke and Professor Julie Brittain will be leading the discussion with their presentation titled: "What Child-Directed Speech Can Reveal about Obviation: A Case Study of Northern East Cree Demonstratives."

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International Association for the Study of Child Language @iasclchildlang.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Next LangVIEW seminar on February 23rd (8:30 PM IST, 4:30 PM CET, 10 AM EST)! We'll hear the talk "Micro-analysis of linguistic input to infants between 6-12 months from two different studies from India" from co-presenters Divya Swaminathan & Reny Raju. Zoom link: plymouth.zoom.us/j/9231774689...

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Anna Caunt @annacaunt.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Delighted to be in the Netherlands for MPL at the Max Planck Institute 🇳🇱! My poster on "Evaluating Language Input Measures for Multilingual Infants" is up tomorrow. If you're around, swing by! In the meantime, enjoy this random picture of a Dutch cat I walked past.... #MPL2023

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