37.1121, FYI: Making Waves March 2026 Meeting

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Subject: 37.1121, FYI: Making Waves March 2026 Meeting

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Date: 19-Mar-2026
From: Mariia Pronina [mariia.pronina at uib.cat]
Subject: Making Waves March 2026 Meeting


Making Waves is launching a new seminar series that, in addition to
prosody, also explores gestures.  On March 25, Suzanne Aussems will
give a talk titled “Beyond stimulus looks: How to analyse infant
social looks and communicative gestures during looking-time
experiments”.
As always, we meet on Wednesdays at 15:00 (CET). We look forward to
seeing many of you there and to another lively discussion.
Abstract:
In the infant looking-time literature, linguistic stimuli are often
presented while infants’ fixation times are measured. Although such
implicit measures can capture relatively low-level associations (e.g.,
look-to-listen effects), using them to infer referential
understanding—namely, that infants recognize that what they hear
corresponds to what they see—would be an overinterpretation. To
address this issue, the talk will introduce a new coding scheme that
examines not only stimulus-directed looks (implicit measures) but also
more explicit communicative behaviours, such as social looks and
communicative gestures directed toward the caregiver. We will discuss
the implications of this multi-layered approach for interpreting past
findings, for designing future studies, and for the claims we make
about early language development.
To wrap up:
Time: 25 March 2026, 15:00 – 16:00 (CET)
Topic: Beyond stimulus looks: How to analyse infant social looks and
communicative gestures during looking-time experiments
Speaker: Suzanne Aussems (University of Warwick)
Hosts: Mariia Pronina & Rebecca Woods
Zoom link: https://upf-edu.zoom.us/j/96178988270 (Zoom login required)
The website with all the updated information can be found here -
https://sites.google.com/view/making-waves-group.
Everyone is warmly invited to join us!
See you next week,
Marusia & Becky

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition




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