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Prof. dr. Aoju Chen
Professor
Humanities
Department of Languages, Literature and Communication
English
English
Humanities
Institute for Language Sciences
Language acquisition, processing and disorders
Language acquisition, processing and disorders
+31 30 253 5706
aoju.chen@uu.nl
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3512 JK Utrecht
Prof. dr. Aoju Chen
Professor
English
Language acquisition, processing and disorders
+31 30 253 5706
aoju.chen@uu.nl
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Research
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Profile
Publications
Activities
Prizes
Research
Teaching
Ancillary activities
Contact
Areas of expertise
Information Structure
Language Comprehension
Prosody
First Language Acquisition
Second Language Acquisition
Phonology
Research areas
The first 1001 days of a child’s life
DoY - Early Childhood
Dynamics of Youth (DoY)
Where do I belong? Children in multi-resident families
Activities
2021
Expressing sarcasm in a second language: The effect of prosodic training on perceived sarcasm and production
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
8 Dec 2021
,
Methoden und Ansätze moderner phonetischer Forschung
Ik ben ...
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
14 Oct 2021
,
NoachSchool - Beroep week
The role of prosody in expressing subjective and objective causality in Mandarin discourse
Aoju Chen
(Presenter)
31 Aug 2021
,
SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea) 2021
A Trade-off Relationship between Lexical and Prosodic Means in Expressing Subjective and Objective Causality
Aoju Chen
(Presenter)
4 Aug 2021
,
31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse
Hoe ontwikkelt zich ‘prosodie’ bij kinderen met en zonder autisme
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
8 Apr 2021
,
Netwerk Dag van Het landelijk expertise netwerk Autisme Jonge Kind
The role of prosody in expressing subjective and objective causality in Dutch.
Aoju Chen
(Presenter)
18 Mar 2021
,
Discourse in corpus and experimental data: Bridging the methodological gap [DisCorX 2021]
2020
Musicality influences higher-order prosodic processing in a second language
A. Chen
(Presenter)
21 Oct 2020
→
24 Oct 2020
,
The Twelfth Annual Meeting of theSociety for the Neurobiology of Language
Automatic Analysis of Dutch speech prosody
Aoju Chen
(Presenter)
30 Jan 2020
,
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 30
2019
Typical development in prosodic focus marking and implications for children with ASD
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
12 Dec 2019
,
UvA-Tours Van Gogh Meeting 2018
Processing prosodic information in sentences with “only” in a second language
A. Chen
(Speaker)
17 Jun 2019
→
19 Jun 2019
,
Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) 2019
The production, perception and comprehension of prosodic granularity in children and adults
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
26 May 2019
,
The Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language
Prosodic processing in sentences with 'only' in L1 and L2 English: An ERP study
A. Chen
(Presenter)
24 May 2019
→
25 May 2019
,
Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2019
Musicality influences the processing of accentuation in sentences with 'only' by L2 English learners
A. Chen
(Presenter)
24 May 2019
→
25 May 2019
,
Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2019
Non-native processing of contrastive focus in English sentences with “only”
A. Chen
(Presenter)
25 Apr 2019
→
26 Apr 2019
,
International conference on the acquisition of information structure
Musicality influences the processing of contrastive focus in sentences with only by L2 English learners
A. Chen
(Presenter)
25 Apr 2019
→
26 Apr 2019
,
International conference on the acquisition of information structure
A cross-linguistic model of development in children’s prosodic focus marking’
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
24 Apr 2019
→
25 Apr 2019
,
International Workshop on the L1 and L2 Acquisition of Information Structure
Studying prosodic ability in children with ASD
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
1 Apr 2019
,
The Workshop Language Abilities in Children with Autism
The Role of Prosody in Distinguishing Different Types of Causal Relations in English
A. Chen
(Presenter)
31 Jan 2019
,
Language Science Day
2018
Where do I belong?
A. Chen
(Organiser)
3 Jul 2018
Yanjiao Zhu
Aoju Chen
(Host)
8 Jan 2018
→
30 Jun 2018
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Aoju Chen
(Visiting researcher)
2018
→ …
Nanjing Normal University
Aoju Chen
(Visiting researcher)
2018
→ …
2017
Processing sentences with “only” in a second language: Evidence from ERPs
A. Chen
(Presenter)
8 Nov 2017
→
10 Nov 2017
,
9th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language
Toontje hoger, toontje lager
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
12 Mar 2017
,
Culturele zondag
PhD Student
Aoju Chen
(Host)
1 Feb 2017
→
31 Jul 2017
Processing sentences with “only” in a second language: Evidence from ERPs
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
2017
→ …
,
9th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language
NWO VENI-selectiecommissie, Geesteswetenschappen
(Event)
Aoju Chen
(Member)
2017
→ …
,
NWO VENI-selectiecommissie, Geesteswetenschappen
2016
Different children different prosody: individual differences in prosodic development
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
2 Jun 2016
Different children different prosody: individual differences in prosodic developmen
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
2 Jun 2016
Speech Prosody 2016
Aoju Chen
(Keynote speaker)
31 May 2016
→
3 Jun 2016
Prosodic Focus Marking in Bai-Mandarin Sequential Bilinguals’ Mandarin
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
31 May 2016
→
3 Jun 2016
,
Speech Prosody 2016
Pitch accents show a Perceptual Magnet Effect: Evidence of internal structure in intonation categories
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
31 May 2016
→
3 Jun 2016
,
Speech Prosody 2016
Prosodic focus marking in Dali Mandarin
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
24 May 2016
→
27 May 2016
,
The 5th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Language
the 7th Conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe
Aoju Chen
(Participant)
2016
→ …
the 7th Conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe
Aoju Chen
(Member of programme committee)
2016
→ …
Speech Prosody 2016
Aoju Chen
(Member of programme committee)
2016
→ …
Society for the Neurobiology of Language
Aoju Chen
(Participant)
2016
→ …
Laboratory Phonology
(Journal)
Aoju Chen
(Editor)
2016
→ …
Journal of the International Phonetic Association
(Journal)
Aoju Chen
(Editorial board member)
2016
→ …
Individual imbalances in prosody production and comprehension
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
2016
,
satellite workshop 'Personality in speech perception & production' at the 15th Conference on Laboratory Phonology
Automatic detection of morphosyntactic violations in Dutch? A Mismatch Negativity study
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
2016
→ …
,
The 8th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language
2015
Anja Kuschmann
Aoju Chen
(Host)
24 Nov 2015
→
27 Nov 2015
Processing prosodic information in a second language
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
23 Oct 2015
Processing prosodic information in a second language
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
23 Oct 2015
Production and comprehension of focus-to-prosody mapping in children: developmental trajectory and individual differences
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
8 May 2015
,
Final Conference of the SFB 632 Information Structure: Advances in information structure research 2003-2015
Production and comprehension of focus-to-prosody mapping in children: developmental trajectory and individual differences
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
8 May 2015
,
Final Conference of the SFB 632 Information Structure: Advances in information structure research 2003-2015
Production and comprehension of focus-to-prosody mapping in children: developmental trajectory and individual differences
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
9 Apr 2015
,
Final Conference of the SFB 632 Information Structure: Advances in information structure research 2003-2015
2014
6th Conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe
Aoju Chen
(Organiser)
10 Sep 2014
→
12 Sep 2014
member of editorial board
(Event)
Aoju Chen
(Member)
1 May 2014
,
member of editorial board
The production-comprehension link in the acquisition of prosodic focus marking
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
30 Mar 2014
,
Experimental Linguistics Talks Utrecht (ELiTU)
Acquisition of prosodic focus marking: individual differences in the link between production and comprehension
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
21 Mar 2014
,
NETwork symposium
Production and comprehension in children’s use of intonation
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
17 Mar 2014
Is there a link between production and comprehension in prosodic development?
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
15 Mar 2014
The production-comprehension
(a)
symmetry in the acquisition of prosody focus-marking
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
5 Feb 2014
2013
Prosodic focus marking in child Dutch: 99 problems but the pitch ain’t one?
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
25 Nov 2013
,
Uiltjesdagen (Utrecht University)
Silence is golden: 4- to 5-year-olds vary pause length to highlight focus in Dutch
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
7 Nov 2013
,
Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 38)
Quiet is the new loud: Pausing and focus in child and adult Dutch
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
19 Sep 2013
,
Psychology of Language group (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Individual differences in children’s use of intonation: how and why
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
13 Sep 2013
Workshop ‘Spoken
(Italian)
L2: prosodic and pragmatic aspects
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
5 Sep 2013
,
Workshop ‘Spoken (Italian) L2: prosodic and pragmatic aspects
Anticipatory effects of intonation in L2
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
5 Sep 2013
→
7 Sep 2013
,
Workshop ‘Spoken (Italian) L2: prosodic and pragmatic aspects
Cross-linguistic research on early intonational development: current findings and future directions
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
27 Jun 2013
,
The 2nd Workshop on the Development of Prosody and Intonation
Cross-linguistic research on early intonational development: current findings and future directions
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
26 Jun 2013
,
The 2nd Workshop on the Development of Prosody and Intonation
Quiet is the new loud: Pausing as a cue to focus in child and adult Dutch
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
25 Jun 2013
,
Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia (University of Lisbon)
Does syntactic constituent type matter to children’s prosodic focus-marking?
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
10 Jun 2013
,
The International Child Phonology Conference (ICPC 2013)
Hunting high and low: Acquiring prosodic focus marking in Swedish and Dutch
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
4 Apr 2013
,
Utrecht-Konstanz meeting on Language Acquisition
Investigating prosodic development: prosodic analysis and data elicitation
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
29 Jan 2013
,
Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research (EMLAR VIII), UiL OTS (Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics)
2012
Hunting high and low- prosodic focus marking in Swedish and Dutch
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
7 Nov 2012
,
Guest lecture (Stockholm University)
Individual differences in children's focus marking: verbal intelligence and theory of mind
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
8 Sep 2012
,
The 5th conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe
Focus marking in Chinese 4- to 5-year-olds: intonation, theory of mind and verbal intelligence
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
12 Apr 2012
,
Utrecht Language Acquisition Seminar
Anticipatory effects of intonation in native and non-native processing
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
11 Jan 2012
,
Linguistics Rotation Lecture Series
2011
The effect of music- and nonmusic-related working memory load on prosodic processing
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
10 Nov 2011
,
Lecture Series on Communication (Tilburg University)
Unravel the myth of earlier mastery of prosody in children
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
9 Sep 2011
,
Introduction Day for Students of Linguistics (BA, MA)
What’s in a rise: Evidence for an off-ramp analysis of Dutch Intonation
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
19 Aug 2011
,
The17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
24-month-olds integrate word stress and intonation in word recognition
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
22 Jun 2011
,
The Phonetic and Phonology in Iberia 2011. (Tarragona, Spain))
What’s in a rise: Evidence for an off-ramp analysis of Dutch intonation
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
21 Jun 2011
,
The Phonetic and Phonology in Iberia 2011 (Tarragona, Spain)
A cross-linguistic study on the phonetic and phonology of intonation in children
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
15 Jun 2011
,
The International Child Phonology Conference 2011.
2010
Word order, intonation, and focus in Dutch and German children
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
25 Oct 2010
,
The 1st Workshop on Prosodic Development
Anticipatory effects of intonation in native and non-native processing
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
1 Jun 2010
Variation in intonational marking of topic and focus in children
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
16 Apr 2010
,
Workshop on Prosodic Development
On the perception of word stress and intonation by 14- and 24-month-old Dutch children
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
16 Apr 2010
,
Workshop on Prosodic Development
2008
Intonational encoding of topic and focus in child language
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
29 Nov 2008
,
Workshop on prosodic interface relations
Tuning the focus: intonation and focus marking in child language.
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
15 Sep 2008
,
The 3rd Conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe
How to use Praat to do intonational research
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
13 Jun 2008
→
14 Jun 2008
The acquisition of intonation as a focus-marker in Dutch
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
1 Apr 2008
Shaping the intonation of Wh-questions: information structure and beyond
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
31 Mar 2008
2005
The role of pitch accent type in the interpretation of information status
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
23 May 2005
,
Phonetisches Kolloquium
2004
Obtaining perceptual judgments in research of intonational meaning
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
7 Oct 2004
→
9 Oct 2004
,
Workshop on Experimental Prosody Research
Language-specificity in the perception of paralinguistic intonational universals
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
10 Jul 2004
→
12 Jul 2004
,
Workshop on Sign Langauge Prosody
Perception of L2 intonational meaning: L1 interference or intonational universal?
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
2 Apr 2004
→
5 Apr 2004
,
ESF workshop on experimental approaches to Tone and Intonation
2003
Language-dependence in the signaling of attitude in speech
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
7 Apr 2003
,
Computer Human Interaction 2003 workshop on subtle expressivity of emotion
Language-dependence in the signaling of attitude in speech.
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
17 Mar 2003
2002
Perception of L2 intonational meaning: a fossilization-prone area?
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
12 Oct 2002
→
17 Oct 2002
,
Workshop on End State of Second Langauge Acquisition
Universality and language-dependence of intonational meaning.
Aoju Chen
(Invited speaker)
1 Feb 2002
,
INTAS workshop