Language Development Lab/Labo du développement du langage

07/06/2022

Hey Ottawa! Are you a parent of a young child? Would you like to ask questions to leading international experts in early child development and meet local researchers? Come check out this event at the Westin tomorrow, July 7, from 4pm-6pm!

07/06/2022

Salut Ottawa! Vous êtes parent d'un jeune enfant? Vous souhaitez poser des questions aux plus grands experts internationaux du développement de la petite enfance et rencontrer des chercheurs locaux? Venez découvrir cet événement au Westin demain, le 7 juillet, de 16h à 18h !

03/23/2021

Our UOttawa Living Lab team is proud to have contributed to this pioneering large-scale bilingual infant study led by the awesome
Krista Byers-Heinlein. The study found that bilingual and monolingual infants showed the same preference for infant directed speech (that higher pitched melodic "baby talk" we often use instinctively when talking to infants 😊). To read more about the study results and the article, click the link below!

https://www.concordia.ca/news/stories/2021/03/23/bilingual-infants-prefer-baby-talk-especially-when-its-one-of-their-native-languages-according-to-new-concordia-led-study.html?c=/news/archive
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If you or someone you know is interested in participating in future language research with their infant, we invite you to email us at [email protected] or register for our database using the following online form: https://socialsciences.uottawa.ca/ldl/participate.
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Big thank you to all the families who participated in this study and helped make this project possible, we couldn't have done it without you!

Krista Byers-Heinlein helms a global research consortium on ways to better understand early language development

02/18/2021

Calling all parents! Participate in a fun activity with your baby and contribute to science from the comfort of your home!

We are looking for babies aged 13-18 months to participate in an exciting new study at the University of Ottawa. Our study is fun and informative and aims to examine how bilingual and monolingual babies learn language. If you have little learners at home that would like to take part in this educational experience, we invite you to sign up at our website, https://socialsciences.uottawa.ca/ldl/participate.

Participation involves a one-time virtual visit with our researchers on Zoom. The activity will take about 15 minutes. We have both weekday and weekend appointments available.

If you know any families who might be interested, please share this post!

For inquiries, please contact our team at [email protected] or [email protected].

01/19/2021

Happy New Year! We are excited to share with you a short video made by our Language Development Lab PhD Graduate Angeline Tsui which presents some findings from her doctoral thesis study. Congratulations to Angeline who is now completing her post-doctoral research at Stanford University! Thank you to all the families who participated in this research, we couldn’t have done it without you.

Stay tuned: information coming soon for online opportunities to take part in interactive language studies from your home!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92pNcpxZguw

If you have any questions about the content/information in this video please feel free to email us at [email protected]. Take care!

Title: Dual Language Statistical Word Segmentation in Infancy: Simulating a Language-Mixing Bilingual EnvironmentAuthors: Angeline Sin Mei Tsui, Lucy C. Eric...

06/17/2020

Big thank you to all of the parents who participated in our recent COVID-19 Social Distancing and Language Development Survey study! We sincerely appreciate your time and contribution. The survey is now closed and those who registered for the second survey will be contacted shortly. We are excited to collaborate with our international partners on next steps including analysis and results!

Stay tuned for future updates on this study and more. We thank you, our community, for your continued and outstanding support!

04/15/2020

Covid-19 Social Distancing and Language Development Survey for Parents:

We are looking for parents of English monolingual children between 8 and 36 months who are practicing social distancing because of Covid-19.

We invite you to participate in the survey conducted by the Language Development Lab at the University of Ottawa- in conjunction with language development researchers all over the world!

The study aims to investigate the impact of social distancing on children's language development. Participation involves answering two questionnaires, one questionnaire now and one questionnaire when quarantine measures have ceased.

Unfortunately, due to study restrictions, we can only use data concerning children who are hearing more than 90% English at home, who were not premature (2 weeks or more), and who do not have severe auditory or visual deficits.

To participate, here is the first questionnaire!:
http://uottawapsy.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_41vkWAdXZ0Gp8ln

To learn more or if you have any questions please feel free to email us at [email protected]. Thank you and take care!

07/23/2019

We’re happy to announce that we have tested our 2000th participant this week at the Canada Museum of Science and Technology’s (CSTM) Living Lab! The Living Lab is a partnership between the University of Ottawa’s child development labs and the CSTM. It is a space where parents can stop by during their museum visit and participate in fun and informative research with their infants and toddlers.

Interested in participating in research with your child at the Living Lab?

To find out when studies for your child’s age group are taking place and for descriptions of these studies, please visit the calendar listed on our website: https://uottawalivinglab.weebly.com/ongoing-studies.html.
The Living Lab is located in the ZOOOM play area of the museum, and is open from Wednesday-Sunday from 10am-3pm.

Alternatively, if you have little ones aged 6-8 months and would prefer to participate in research at uOttawa’s downtown campus, please sign up at our webpage: https://socialsciences.uottawa.ca/ldl/participate.

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Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer que nous avons testé notre 2000e participant cette semaine au Living Lab du Musée des sciences et de la technologie du Canada (MSTC)! Le Living Lab est un partenariat entre les laboratoires de développement de l’enfant de l’Université d’Ottawa et le CSTM. C'est un espace où les parents peuvent passer lors de la visite du musée et participer à des recherches amusantes et informatives avec leurs bébés et leurs tout-petits.

Intéressé à participer à des recherches avec votre enfant au Living Lab?

Pour savoir quand se déroulent les études pour le groupe d’âge de votre enfant et pour une description de ces études, veuillez consulter le calendrier indiqué sur notre site Web: https://uottawalivinglab.weebly.com/ongoing-studies.html.

Le Living Lab est situé dans l'aire de jeu ZOOOM du musée et est ouvert du mercredi au dimanche de 10h à 15h.

Si vous avez des enfants âgés de 6 à 8 mois et que vous préférez participer à des recherches sur le campus du centre-ville d’Ottawa, veuillez vous inscrire sur notre page Web: https://socialsciences.uottawa.ca/ldl/participate.

03/07/2019

An interesting research project from our colleagues in the U.S. geared towards parents of English-learning toddlers between 2 and 4 years of age.

“Do you have a child between 2-4 yeas old who speaks English? Please help us in developing a new children's language use questionnaire by filling out this survey: https://t.co/ieGtZrvy07 (10-15 mins). ”

01/30/2019

Calling all parents!

We are looking for babies aged 6-8 months to participate in an exciting new study at the University of Ottawa. Our study is fun and informative, and aims to examine how bilingual and monolingual babies learn language. If you have little learners at home that would like to take part in this educational experience, we invite you to sign up at our website, https://socialsciences.uottawa.ca/childhood-thinking/participate.

Participation involves a one-time visit to the University of Ottawa’s Child Development Laboratories and typically takes less than an hour. Your child’s part will take about 10 minutes and they will be with you the entire duration. We have both weekday and weekend appointments available.

We provide free parking. Babies receive a gift for their participation.

If you know any families who might be interested, please share this post!

For inquiries, please contact our team at [email protected] or by phone at (613) 562-5800 ext. 4446.

08/02/2018

Angeline Tsui, a very hard-working and insightful member of the Language Development Lab, successfully defended her doctorate yesterday! Angeline, pictured here with her thesis defence committee, would like to thank all the parents and babies who contributed to her research. Angeline will soon be leaving us for a postdoctoral position at Stanford University and we will miss her. Congratulations, Dr. Tsui!!!

05/16/2018

Warm weather is back and we are excited to be back in the lab and looking forward to meeting our new participants this year. We are looking for English monolingual and bilingual babies that are between the ages of 3 months and 15.5 months. We have so many experiences going on and we keep it fun for the babies and the parents. We have parking for you and week/weekend timeslots to fit your schedule. So if you are interested, feel free to contact [email protected]. We would be more than happy to have you come to our lab.