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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We welcome Ilayda Şen, a PhD student that joined our team. With a Masters in Psychology, Neuroscience and Human Sciences, she was awarded a PhD fellowship to study the brain signatures of early prosodic development.

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It was great to participate in the workshop “Multimodal Pathways to Pragmatics: The Development of Prosody and Gesture in Infancy and Early Childhood”, with the talk "Early development of prosody and gesture in infant speech perception and production: old and new data".

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Begoña Pericas Herrero, who held a post-doc grant at our lab working with EEG, wrote this blog post about working with CURRY (the system we have in our lab). It might be useful to others! bpericas.github.io/Analysing-CU...

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sara Coego (UPF, Barcelona) has just defended her PhD Thesis entitled ‘A multimodal pathway to pragmatic development: prosody and gesture in preschool children’s marking of focus types’, with great success. Congratulations, Sara!

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our PhD student Tânia Carneiro will give a talk on the added value of prosodic training in dyslexia, at the CALLing-FLUL meeting (September, 8, 15:20)

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We developed a speech corpus of Portuguese-speaking children with High-Functioning Autism producing contrastive focus, with multilayer prosodic annotation. The work will be presented at Language Disorders 2026 (online; linguistic-society.com/event/langua...)

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We have been at the Word Processing Congress with an eye-tracking study on early word learning in (a)typical development.

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It was great tenth edition of Summer Training in Experimental Methods - STEM X! We had a full week of courses on ultrasound tongue imaging, Praat and acoustic analysis, eye-tracking, tools for perception studies, and EEG.

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We thank the team from NOVA SBE Public Policy Institute for their invitation to Sónia Frota to participate as an expert in the Rethinking Early Childhood Policy Workshop - two intense days of knowledge sharing and discussions towards evidence-based public policy recommendations.

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We have just presented at the Child Language Symposium 2026 (UCL) work on the perception-production link in infant perception of prosody in typical and atypical development, and on prosodic training in dyslexia. We thank the audience for the great interest in our work!

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Kazem Jahanshahi is defending his PhD project: June 22, 2:00pm (Lisbon time), at t.co/kV5BQVJ9Jy

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Our recent paper ‘Articulating while listening supports the emerging perception-production link in early infancy’ (nature.com/articles/s41...) has been featured on ClearSkyScience. It is great to have our research accessible to the broader public! Visit www.clearskyscience.com/en/10.1038/s...

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We invite expressions of interest from postdoctoral researchers planning to apply to the MSCA PF 2026 call, with the Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon as host institution, and the Labfon & Lisbon Baby Lab as the research group.

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

We announce the tenth edition of the STEM Summer School - Summer Training in Experimental Methods. labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/summerschool...

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Opportunity to join our team: PhD fellowship. Application deadline: April 24, 2026. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/426755

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Infants produce covert speech-driven articulatory movements when perceiving speech! nature.com/articles/s41...

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Julien Mayor at NeuroDWELL 2025: Visual and sensorimotor constraints shape lexical outcomes: Illustrations with Williams Syndrome and neurotypical children. Watch this keynote at m.youtube.com/@lisbonbabyl...

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

We’re excited to welcome Begoña Pericas Herrero to our lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Begoña will be helping in the EEG lab for our project exploring how gamified training can support second-language learners in mastering new phonemes.

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

We’re delighted to welcome Eva Gonzalo Gómez for a research stay in our lab. A PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at the University of Salamanca, Eva studies how adult English speakers acquire L2 Spanish phonetics and phonology.

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Perception of intonation is a strength in infants with Down Syndrome in the first 6 months of life. @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social www.mdpi.com/2254-9625/15...

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

We welcome Valeria Montorsi (University of Bologna) to our team, during her Erasmus training.

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lisbonbabylab.bsky.social @lisbonbabylab.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Marisa Filipe, member of our team, interviewed about her recent scientific award: youtu.be/L3JvwsGNhFc?...

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Investigação com Impacto - Marisa Filipe

YouTube video by ULisboa

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