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The 10th conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS 10) is coming to Nijmegen on July 9-11, 2025.

We have a bunch of new preprints out! Read them here…

Ik mocht een bijdrage leveren aan de podcast Alledaagse Vragen #183. Wil jij weten waarom we eigenlijk ‘uh’ zeggen? Beluister het antwoord dan hier!

I’m teaching a 5-day Prosody in Speech Perception course at the LOT Summer School 2024 in Leiden. You can find all materials here!

Today we heard that Floris Cos successfully received a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to start a PhD project about how simple beat gestures influence spoken word recognition in L1 and L2.

Congratulations to Ronny on his first journal publication from his PhD project! Want to know how people use lip movements and simple hand gestures to perceive lexical stress? Read it here!

How do speakers of Dutch produce lexical stress? Read it in: “Your “VOORnaam” is not my “VOORnaam”: An acoustic analysis of individual talker differences in word stress in Dutch.”

Chengjia joined the group in Sept 2023 to test how the timing of hand gestures influences speech perception in more naturalistic listening conditions.

Matteo joined the group in June 2023 to test the neural correlates of audiovisual integration of gestural timing and spoken prosody, as well as their alteration in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)