2026

Van der Wulp, I., Struiksma, M., Wijnen, F. (2026). Words and Meters: Neural Evidence for a Connection Between Individual Differences in Statistical Learning and Rhythmic Ability in Infancy. Developmental Science, 29, e70116.

Van der Wulp, I., Struiksma, M., Wijnen, F. (2026). Statistical learning and rhythmic ability in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Individual differences outweigh group effects. Acta Psychologica, 270, 107622.

Van der Wulp, I. (2026). Individual Differences in Statistical Learning: Investigating the Role of Rhythmic Ability and Working Memory Across Development and Neurodiversity. (Doctoral dissertation, Utrecht University).

Geutjes, J., Ganga, R., Van Niekerk, E., Reshetnikova, V., & Chen, A. (2026). Cue-weighting in processing of prosodic boundaries in Dutch: An event-related potential (ERP) study. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 33(1), 53.

2025

Van der Wulp, I., Struiksma, M., Batterink, L.J., Wijnen, F. (2025). Neural evidence for linguistic statistical learning is independent of rhythmic and cognitive abilities in neurotypical adults. Cortex, 192, 242-270.

Wijnen, F., Van der Wulp, I. (2025). To unify, or not to unify, that is the question: A commentary on Taha et al. (2025). First Language, 45(5), 661-665.

2024

Ao, C. (2024). Twenty-month-olds categorically discriminate similar sounding vowels regardless of vocabulary level, an event related potentials (ERP) study. Journal of Child Language, 51(2), 434-453.

2023

Reshetnikova, V., Hessels, R., & Chen, A. (2023). Variation in gestural input related to prosodic phrasing in infant-directed interactions. In MMSYM 2023: The 1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium.

Kalashnikova, M., Singh, L., Tsui, A., Altuntas, E., Burnham, D., Cannistraci, R., … & Woo, P. J. (2023). The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross‐linguistic, multi‐lab report. Developmental Science, e13459.

Jansen, M. (2023). Visual attention in infancy: Using online webcam recordings as a proof of concept (Master’s thesis).

Verhagen, J., & De Bree, E. (2023). Non-adjacent Dependency Learning from Variable Input: Investigating the Effects of Bilingualism, Phonological Memory, and Cognitive Control. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1127718.

Chen, A. (2023). Twenty-month-olds categorically discriminate similar sounding vowels regardless of vocabulary level, an event related potentials (ERP) study. Journal of Child Language, 1-20.

Spit, S., Geambașu, A., Renswoude, D. V., Blom, E., Fikkert, P., Hunnius, S., … & Levelt, C. C. (2023). Robustness of the cognitive gains in 7‐month‐old bilingual infants: A close multi‐center replication of Kovács and Mehler (2009). Developmental Science, e13377.

Geambasu, A., Spit, S., van Renswoude, D., Blom, E., Fikkert, P. J., Hunnius, S., … & Levelt, C. C. (2023). Robustness of the rule‐learning effect in 7‐month‐old infants: A close, multicenter replication of Marcus et al.(1999). Developmental Science, e13244.

2022

Chen, A. (2022). Later but not weaker: neural categorization of native vowels of children at familial risk of dyslexia. Brain Sciences, 12(3), 412.

2021

Klerk, M. K. A. D. (2021). Vowels in development: Speech sound perception in Dutch infants with and without a family risk of dyslexia (Doctoral dissertation, Utrecht University).

2020

Junge, C., Everaert, E., Porto, L., Fikkert, P., de Klerk, M., Keij, B., & Benders, T. (2020). Contrasting behavioral looking procedures: a case study on infant speech segmentation. Infant Behavior and Development, 60, 101448.

The ManyBabies Consortium (a.o. M. de Klerk, C. Junge) (2020). Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference. Advances in Methods and
Practices in Psychological Science. 3, 24–52.

2019

de Klerk, M., Veen, D., Wijnen, F., & de Bree, E. (2019). A step forward: Bayesian hierarchical modelling as a tool in assessment of individual discrimination performance. Infant Behavior and Development, 57. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2019.101345.

2018

Capel, D. (2018) Sequential learning, domain generality, and developmental dyslexia, (Doctoral dissertation, Utrecht University).

de Klerk, M., de Bree, E., Kerkhoff, A., & Wijnen, F. (2018). Lost and Found: Decline and Reemergence of Non-Native Vowel Discrimination in the First Year of Life. Language Learning and Development, 1-18. Published online August 2018.

2017

Chen, A., Stevens, C. J., & Kager, R. (2017). Pitch perception in the first year of life, a comparison of lexical tones and musical pitch. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 297.

Liu, L., Han, M., & Kager, R. (2017). Keeping up with the monolinguals. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 6(1), 41-64.

Liu, L. and Kager, R. (2017), ‘Is mommy talking to daddy or to me? : exploring parental estimates of child language exposure using the Multilingual Infant Questionnaire‘, International Journal of Multilingualism, vol 14, no 4 , pp 366 – 377

Liu, L. and Kager, R. (2017), ‘Statistical learning of speech sounds is most robust during the period of perceptual attunement‘, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol 164 , pp 192 – 208.

Liu, L. and Kager, R. (2017), ‘Perception of tones by bilingual infants learning non-tone languages’, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, vol 20, no 3 , pp 561 – 575.

Liu, L. and Kager, R. (2017), ‘Enhanced music sensitivity in 9-month-old bilingual infants‘, Cognitive Processing, vol 18, no 1 , pp 55 – 65.

2016

Grama, I.C., Kerkhoff, A.O. & Wijnen, F.N.K. (2016). Gleaning Structure from Sound – The Role of Prosodic Contrast in Learning Non-adjacent Dependencies. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, (pp. 1-23) (23 p.).

Chen, A., & Kager, R. (2016). Discrimination of lexical tones in the first year of life. Infant and Child Development, 25(5), 426-439.

2015

Chen, A. & Kager, R.W.J. (2015). Discrimination of non-native lexical tones in the first year of life. Infant and child development, (pp. Early View Online).

Kager, R.W.J. & Liu, L. (2015). Bilingual exposure influences infant VOT perception. Infant Behavior and Development, 38, 27-36.

Kager, R.W.J. & Liu, L. (2015). Perception of a native vowel contrast by Dutch monolingual and bilingual infants – A bilingual perceptual lead. International Journal of Bilingualism, 20(3), 335-345.

2014

Liu, L. (2014). The Effects of Bilingualism on Infant Language Development: The Acquisition of Sounds and Words (Doctoral dissertation). LOT, 346.

Liu, L., & Kager, R. (2014). Perception of tones by infants learning a non-tone language. Cognition, 133(2), 385-394.

Van Setten, L., Grama, I.C., & Wijnen, F.N.K. (2014). Gender differences in non-adjacent dependency learning.  Investigating the small female advantage in language development. In Igitur, thesis Utrecht University, 1-17.

2013

Chen, A. & Kager, R.W.J. (2013). Cross-domain perception of pitch in early infancy. In S Baiz, N Goldman & R Hawkes (Eds.), BUCLD 37: Proceedings of the 37th Annual Boston University Conference in Language Development (pp. 49-61) (13 p.). Somerville: Cascadilla Press.

Chen, A. (2013). Universal biases in the perception of Mandarin tones: From infancy to adulthood (doctoral dissertation). LOT, 308.

Kerkhoff, A.O., De Bree, E.H., De Klerk, M.K.A., & Wijnen, F.N.K. (2013). Non-adjacent dependency learning in infants at familial risk of dyslexia. Journal of child language, 40(01), 11-28.

2012

Chen, A., & Kager, R.W.J. (2012). Domain specificity of lexical tone perception in early infancy: lexical tones versus musical tones. In Tonal Aspects of Languages-Third International Symposium.

Chen, A., & Kager, R.W.J. (2012). Lexical tone perception in early infancy. Speech Prosody 2012.

2011

Capel, D. et al., Distributional cues affect phonetic discrimination in Dutch infants. In: Wim Zonneveld et al. (Eds.), Sound and Sounds, Studies presented to M.E.H. (Bert) Schouten on the occasion of his 65th birthday, pp. 33–43. UiL-OTS, Utrecht University, 2011.

Chen, A. & Kager, R.W.J. (2011). The perception of lexical tones and tone sandhi in L2: Success or failure?. In W.S. Lee & E. Zee (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS XVII 2011 (pp. 444-447) (4 p.). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.

Liu, L., & Kager, R.W.J. (2011). How Do Statistical Learning and Perceptual Reorganization Alter Dutch Infant’s Perception to Lexical Tones?. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS XVII 2011 (pp. 1270-1273). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.

2010

Wijnen, F., and D. Capel, Neurocognitieve achtergronden van dyslexie. In Ludo Verhoeven et al. (Eds.), Zorg om Dyslexie, Studies over Taalonderwijs nr. 7, Garant, Apeldoorn, 2010.