News and Events
LDP in the News
Pieces contributed by N. Ferjan Ramírez
The Conversation: Why the baby brain can learn two languages at the same time.
Academic Minute: Building Bilingual Brains.
Univision: Dr. Juan appearance on Educación Temprana.
I-LABs Learning Modules (co-authored):
Module 3 The importance of early interactions.
Module 6: Language Development: Learning the sounds of language.
Module 10: Language Development: From listening to speaking.
Module 11: Bilingual language development.
News articles written about research by N. Ferjan Ramírez
Fathers
Early Learning Nation: Latinx Fathers speak their babies’ love language, though they might not realize it.
Early Learning Nation: Where have all the fathers gone in child language research? Dearth of dads must change.
Parentese
CNN health: ‘Parentese’, not traditional baby talk, boosts a baby’s language development
King5: Using baby talk? Try ‘parentese’ instead to help your baby’s verbal skills
NPR: Get yourself fluent in ‘parentese’
UW News: Parents learn, babies talk: How coaching moms and dads leads to better language skills among infants
UW News: UW research expands bilingual language program for babies
The Seattle Times: UW team shows a way to teach babies second language if parents only speak one
UW News: Bilingual babies: Study shows how exposure to a foreign language ignites infants’ learning
UW CoMotion: UW Researcher Spotlight: Naja Ferjan Ramírez
Early Learning Nation: In Babies’ Brains, White Matter Is Crucial—and Conversational Turns Make It Grow
Bilingual Brain
ABC News LA: Research shows baby brains are primed to be bilingual
UW News: Bilingual baby brains show increased activity in executive function regions
Lab Meetings
Lab meetings are again in-person! They are held in GUG 415L.
Recent and Upcoming Conferences
In August 2024, Dr. Ferjan Ramírez presented at the NeoHeart conference in New York City. The title of her talk was: Beyond baby talk: The power of parentese in language development.
The LDP Lab will be presenting at the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 2023 and at the Many Paths to Language (MPAL) 2023 conference in the Netherlands!
Dr. Ferjan Ramírez presented at the Unidos US pre-conference in Chicago. The title of her talk was “The importance of early language interactions”.
The LDP Lab presented at the ICIS Congress in Ottawa, Canada, in July of 2022! Here were the presentations:
Kaveri Sheth presenting her poster at the ICIS conference in Ottawa, Canada.
- Habla conmigo, papá: Fathers’ language input in bilingual Latinx families
Naja Ferjan Ramírez, Daniel Hippe, Lili Correa, Josephine Andert, Melissa Baralt - Increasing diversity in participant samples in developmental psychology
Naja Ferjan Ramírez, Patricia Kuhl - Vocabulary complexity in paternal and maternal parentese: A longitudinal corpus analysis
Kaveri Sheth, Naja Ferjan Ramírez - Electronic media, language input, and language output in Latinx infants
Naja Ferjan Ramírez, Daniel Hippe, Katie Lindekugel
The LDP Lab presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 2021
Congratulations to Kaveri Sheth who was awarded the Paula Menyuk Award for her research on paternal and maternal parentese!
The LDP Lab presented at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2021 Biennial Meeting
The LDP Lab presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) 2020
The LDP Lab presented at the Many Paths to Language (MPAL) Workshop 2020
The LDP Lab presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 2020