CV

Basics

Education

  • 2022
    Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), section 07, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon
    Mentor : Sophie Kern, DDL, Lyon
    Evaluation committee : Judit Gervain (INCC, Univ. Paris Descartes); Louis Goldstein (Univ. de Californie du Sud); Hélène Lœvenbruck (LPNC, UGA); Lucie Ménard (Lab. de Phonétique, UQAM, Montréal); Pascal Perrier (Gispa-Lab, UGA); Marianne Pouplier (LMU, Munich, Allemagne)
  • 2007
    Ph.D., Language Sciences, Institut de la Communication Parlée (ICP, UMR 5009), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
  • 2003
    Master, Language Sciences, Sociolinguistic and Languages Didactic and French as a foreign Language (FLE), UGA
  • 2002
    Maîtrise, Languages, Literature & Foreign Civilizations (LLCE); Language Industries (IDL) /Automatic Processing of Oral and Written Language (TAL), UGA

Professional Experiences

  • 2023 - Present
    Researcher
    Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition, Université Grenoble-Alpes, France
  • 2022 - 2023
    Affiliated researcher
    Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition, (CNRS, UMR 5105), Université Grenoble-Alpes
    Researcher
    Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, UMR 8455, Paris, France
  • 2021 - 2022
    Research resident
    Collegium de Lyon
    Researcher
    Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage, (CNRS, UMR 5596), Lyon, France
  • 2015 - 2021
    Group Leader
    Laboratory for Oral Language Acquisition, Département de Linguistique & Sciences Cognitives, Université de Potsdam, Allemagne
  • 2012 - 2014
    Researcher & Lecturer
    Département de Linguistique & Sciences Cognitives, Université de Potsdam
  • 2007 - 2012
    Post-Doctoral Researcher
    Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, USA
  • 2006 - 2007
    Researcher & Lecturer
    Département des Sciences du Langage, Université Grenoble Alpes
  • 2003 - 2006
    Doctoral fellow
    Institut de la Communication Parlée, Université Grenoble Alpes

Third-Part Funding

  • 2025
    AAP UGA / INP Programme, France
    «Multimodal Speech: Studying the multimodal development of typical and atypical language».
  • 2025 - 2028
    ANR-DFG, France-Germany
    «Voc2Speak: An integrative-interactive approach to speech development». ANR-DFG, co-PI: Susanne Fuchs.
  • 2025 - 2026
    Institut Carnot Cognition, France
    «SpeechBalance: Speech-related deficiencies in patients with vestibular schwannomas».
  • 2024
    Institut Carnot Cognition, France
    «Intégration SEnsori-MOtrice pour la rééducation du langage chez des patients avec une aphasie non fluente après accident vasculaire cérébral». Main collaborators: Monica Baciu, Hélène Löevenbruck.
  • 2021
    Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany
    Research stimulus
  • 2019 - 2021
    Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany
    «Understanding spoken language organization in the first years of life (II)»
  • 2017 - 2019
    Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany
    «Understanding spoken language organization in the first years of life (I)»
  • 2017
    Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany
    Funding for the organization of the international conférence «Ultrafest VIII»
  • 2015 - 2019
    Marie Skłodowska-Curie International Training Network
    « PredictAble: Understanding and predicting developmental language abilities and disorders in multilingual Europe ». Co-porteur du projet. Coordinatrice principale : Barbara Höhle
    Investigateur de l’axe «Processing of acoustic and phonological information as indicators of risk for language related difficulties»
  • 2015 - 2017
    Various projects’ seed funding (SBKW, Potsdam), Germany
  • 2014 - 2017
    Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG),Germany
    «New methods for investigating the development of coarticulation in children »
  • 2003 - 2006
    Doctorate scholarship (merit-based), Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale, de la Recherche et des Technologies (M.E.N.R.T)
  • 2001 - 2003
    Merit-based Master scholarship, C.R.O.U.S., Rhône Alpes region

Collaborations

  • 2023 - 2027
    National Institute of Health (NIH, USA)
    PI: Ken Pugh
    Project: Tracking neurocognitive changes during evidence-based reading instruction in typically and atypically developing children
  • 2022 - 2026
    Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT (Portugal)
    PI: Sonia Frota
    Project: The Perception-Production Link in Early Infancy: A language acquisition oral-motor intervention study (P2Link)
  • 2022 - 2023
    Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR, France)
    PIs: Sharon Peperkamp & Anne Christophe
    Project: Differences in language learnability across ages
  • 2020 - 2024
    Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Netherlands)
    PI: Martijn Wieling
    Project: Planning and correcting speech in healthy and pathological ageing
  • 2019 - 2020
    De Jong Akademie, (KNAW, Netherlands)
    PI: Martijn Wieling
    Project: Speech deterioration in children with Duchenne syndrome
  • 2011
    National Institute of Health (NIH, USA)
    PI: Louis Goldstein; collaboration with Christine Mooshammer
    Project: Syllabic competition and frequency effects in child speech
  • 2010 - 2013
    Conseil de Recherche en Sciences Humaines (CRSH, Canada)
    PI: Lucie Ménard
    Project: Le développement du contraste /i/ vs /y/ en français: le rôle des indices visuels et auditifs
  • 2010 - 2012
    National Science Foundation (NSF, USA)
    PI: Doug-H. Whalen
    Project: Ultrasound Investigation of Consonant Harmony in Tahltan
  • 2007 - 2012
    National Institute of Health (NIH, USA)
    PI: Doug-H. Whalen
    Project: Links between perception and production in speech

Other Scientific Activities

  • 2023 - 2025
    Committee Member, for the creation of a Speech Language Pathology school in Grenoble, together with various researchers and speech language pathologists in the Grenoble area.
  • 2023
    Creation of “Acteurs du Langage et de la Petite Enfance” (ALPE), together with Anne Vilain (GIPSA), Mathilde Fort and Hélène Loevenbruck (LPNC). A gathering aimed at connecting researchers and students working on language and/or speech development at UGA Campus.
  • 2021 - 2022
    Co-organizer colloquiums DENDY, Dynamique du Langage Lab
  • 2015 Jan.
    Creation of the Laboratory for Oral Language Acquisition (LOLA), University of Potsdam, Germany
    Missions: (i) Investigate typical language development with an integrated experimental approach combining various behavioral methods adapted to child study, (ii) Provide students with a training and research environment to apply theoretical knowledge acquired in class in structured research projects, (iii) support the development of technical, methodological and project management skills, (v) train students in developmental techniques (e.g., ultrasound imaging, eye- tracking, acoustic, video-based measurements, dev. assessments)
  • 2015 - 2019
    Career Development & Training Manager, 15 Early Stage Researchers Marie Curie ITN initiative “PredictAble” Role:(i) Monitor ESRs’ progress, (ii) create and coordinate tailored network-wide and individual training activities, (iii) support training-related secondments within the PredictAble network, (iv) support ESRs in their career development, (v) regular reporting on training & outreach activities and secondments
  • 2009
    Coordination “Birth to Five” initiative, Haskins laboratories-USC University, USA
  • 2007 - 2011
    Coordinator, ethical applications, D.H. Whalen’s research group, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven
  • 2007 - 2011
    Ethic coordinator, project « Links between perception and production in speech ». PI: Doug-H. Whalen, Haskins Laboratories

Student (Co)-Supervision

  • 2025 - 2028
    Lucie Chasseur (PhD project) — project VOC2SPEAK on the co-development of infants' attention and speech motor control, LPNC, UGA, Grenoble
  • 2024
    Célise Haldin (Post-doctoral project) — project on language and speech in patients with post-stroke aphasia and healthy elderly speakers, UGA, Grenoble
  • 2019 - 2024
    Teja Rebernik (PhD project) — “Acoustic and kinematic insights into articulatory sensorimotor control in parkinson’s disease”, University of Groningen

    Project here
  • 2019 - 2020
    Anisia Popescu (Post-doctoral project) — project on the developing relation between spoken language fluency and reading acquisitio, University of Potsdam, Germany
  • 2016 - 2024
    Elina Rubertus (PhD project) — “Coarticulatory changes across childhood: implications for speech motor and phonological development”, University of Potsdam, Germany

    Dissertation here
  • 2016 - 2021
    Orsolya Beatrix Kolozsvári (PhD project) — Investigation of brain processes of speech perception and production in adults andchildren using MEG”, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

    Dissertation here

Scientific Events

  • 2024
    Symposium Le développement de la communication chez l’enfant, Université Grenoble Alpes

    Rôle : Co-organizer with the BabyLab de Grenoble

  • 2022
    Speech Motor Control Conference, Groningen

    Rôle : Co-organizer, chair language acquisition, plenary speaker

  • 2018
    Satellite Ultrasound Evidence in Phonology, Labphon 16, Lisbon

    Rôle : Co-organizer with D.H. Whalen and S. Lulich

    Dynamical Systems Theory for the Phonetic Sciences, Postdam, Guest speaker: K. Iskarous

    Rôle : Main organizer, with S. Krüger, J. Sander

  • 2017
    Language acquisition Poster session, UP
    Conference Ultrafest VIII, Postdam

    Rôle : Organizer, with D. Abakarova, N. Gonen, S. Krüger, E. Rubertus

  • 2016
    PredictAble Summer School, Postdam

    Rôle : Organizer of two workshops: K. Pugh for an overview of current issues in developmental dyslexia, A. Stutzman on educational outreach activities

  • 2015 - 2019
    Contribution to outreach activities : Science Days, Baby Lab newsletters, interviews for the University Press
  • 2011
    International Seminar on Speech Production

    Rôle : Co-organizer with L. Ménard, S. Baum, V. Gracco, and D. Ostry

  • 2010
    Conference Ultrafest V, New Haven, USA, 85 participants, 7 countries

    Rôle : Co-organizer with D.H. Whalen, and K. Iskarous

  • 2009
    Birth to Five initiative, Haskins-University of Southern California

    Rôle : Co-organizing working groups and proposal writing

Training Activities

  • 2025
    L’imagerie par échographie, un outil  prometteur pour évaluer la communication (a)typique chez l’adulte et sondéveloppement chez l’enfant., Société Universitaire de Recherche en Orthophonie (SURO), January 16th.
    Kinematic insights on the development of spoken and reading language fluency, Seminars from the Childhood Application Seminar Series (CASS), April 24th.
    Tracking the invisible in speech with ultrasound imaging, Summer Training in Experimental Methods(STEM VIII). Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology, Lisbon University, July 17th.
  • 2024
    Tracking the invisible in the (a)typical development of spoken language fluency with ultrasound imaging (STEM VIII), LABORATORY OF PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY, CLUL Lisbon, September 3rd.
    Apports de la technique d’imagerie par échographie pour la recherche sur le langage (a)typique, LABTIME, LPNC, November 21st.
    Tracking the invisible in infants’ vocalisations, an introduction to ultrasound imaging to study language acquisition, DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC SCIENCE, York University, December 11th.
  • 2023
    Ultrasound imaging in developmental speech sciences.  Summer Training in Experimental Methods (STEM VII), LABORATORY OF PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY, CLUL Lisbon, September 5th.
  • 2022
    Applicabilité de l’imagerie par échographie pour l’étude du développement de la parole chez les tout petits, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Lyon, January 18th.
    Apport de l’imagerie par échographie pour l’évaluation de la parole (a)typique, Séminaire orthophonie, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Lyon, June 20th.
    Applying ultrasound imaging to study the early coupling between perception and production in infancy, Center of Linguistics, Lisbon University, October 16 & 17th.
  • 2021
    Ultrasound imaging to study child language development, International Child Phonology conference ICPC, June 17th.
  • 2019
    Tutorial on ultrasound tongue imaging in dual perception/production tasks in infants (1 day), UQAM, MacGill, Canada.

    Invitation: L. Ménard and L. Polka

    Kinematic data analyses from ultrasound imaging, Groningen University, April 19th.
  • 2018
    Tutorial on ultrasound research in (a)typical language acquisition, Labphon 16, Satellite: Ultrasound Evidence in Phonology, Lisbon University, July 19th.
    Seeing the invisible in the speech of children using ultrasound imaging, ISOLDE Ecole d’Été, Potsdam University, June 11th.
    Tracking spoken language development from infants to school-aged children, Groningen University, October 5th.
    Training on ultrasound imaging in linguistic investigation (2 days in the framework of a scientific dissemination event “Zpannend Zernike”), Groningen University, August 17-19th.

    Organisation: Martijn Wieling

Reviewing Services

  • Editing responsibilities

    2023: Guest editor & reviewer special edition of Speech Motor Control in the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research; 2021-present: Board of editors Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, section Language Sciences

  • Adhoc reviewer for external research funding agencies

    Initiatives de Recherche à Grenoble Alpes (IRGA); Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR); Fonds Québécois de Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (FQRSC); Israeli Science Fondation (ISF); Marie Curie (MSCA)

  • Adhoc reviewer for peer-reviewed journals

    Frontiers Psychology; Journal of Acoustic Society of America; Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; Child Development; Journal of Language, Learning and Development; Journal of the International Phonetic Association; Phonetica; Language and Speech; Journal of Clinical Linguistics; Journal of Child Langage, Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development; Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development (JCLAD); Bilingualism: Language and Cognition;

  • Adhoc reviewer for book chapters

    Consonant clusters and structural complexity. Eds: Hoole, Bombien, Pouplier, Mooshammer, Kuehnert; Berlin, Bosten: de Gruyter Mouton

  • Adhoc reviewer for conferences

    International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP); Labphon; Phonology and Phonetics in Europe (PaPE); Ultrafest; Workshop on Infant Language development (WILD); Infant Studies On Language Development in Europe ISOLDE; Speech Motor Control

  • PhD evaluation committee

    2019: Paméla Trudeau-Fissette (UQAM, Montréal)