Aoju Chen

Teaching

BA courses

  • 2015-2016: English and Dutch Prosody, Department of Languages, Literature and Communication – section English Language and Culture, Utrecht University
  • 2014-2015: English and Dutch Prosody, Department of Languages, Literature and Communication – section English Language and Culture, Utrecht University
  • 2013-2014: Parameters in second language acquisition, Department of Languages, Literature and Communication – section English Language and Culture, Utrecht University
  • 2012-2013: Parameters in second language acquisition, Department of Languages, Literature and Communication – section English Language and Culture, Utrecht University
  • 2012-2013: Experimental psycholinguistics, Department of Languages, Literature and Communication – section Linguistics, Utrecht University Utrecht University
  • 2012-2013: Spoken English, Department of Languages, Literature and Communication – section English Language and Culture, Utrecht University
  • 2012-2013: English Linguistics (I), Department of Languages, Literature and Communication – section English Language and Culture, Utrecht University
  • 2011-2012: Parameters in second language acquisition, Utrecht University
  • 2001-2002: Workgroup Engelse Phonology, Radboud University Nijmegen
  • 2001-2002: English Phonetics, Radboud University Nijmegen

MA courses

  • 2015-2016: Phonology: Typology and Language Acquisition, Research Master Linguistics, Utrecht University
  • 2014-2015: Phonology: Typology and Language Acquisition (including training in methodology), Research Master in Linguistics, Utrecht University
  • 2013-2014: Foundations of Sound Structure and Language Acquisition, Research Master Linguistics, Utrecht University
  • 2013-2014: Guest lecture in the course Advanced Topics in Cognitive Science, Master Cognitive and Artifial Intelligence & Research Master Linguistics, Utrecht University
  • 2013-2014: Phonology: Typology and Language Acquisition(including training in methodology), Research Master Linguistics, Utrecht University
  • 2011-2012: Speech Perception and Production in Second Language Acquisition, Master Taal, mens, maatschappij, Utrecht University
  • 2009/2010: Language Acquisition: Prosody, Research Master Cognitive Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics & Radboud University Nijmegen
  • 2008/2009: Language Acquisition: Prosody, Research Master Cognitive Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics & Radboud University Nijmegen
  • 2007/2008: Language Acquisition: Prosody, Research Master Cognitive Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics & Radboud University Nijmegen
  • 2006/2007: Language Acquisition: Prosody, Research Master Cognitive Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics & Radboud University Nijmegen
  • 2005-2006: Language Acquisition: Prosody, Research Master Cognitive Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics & Radboud University Nijmegen

PhD courses

  • 2015/2016: Prosody and its function: A typological perspective, LOT summer school, Utrecht University
  • 2013/2014: State of the art course ‘Language Acquisition’, LOT winter school, University of Amsterdam.
  • 2013/2014: Master class ‘Prosodic acquisition’, LOT winter school, University of Amsterdam.
  • 2011/2012: Information structure in first language acquisition, (co-instructor Dr. Bhuvana Narasimhan) the Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Summer Linguistic Institute, University of Colorado – Boulder

News

Work presented at Neurobiology of Language 2016 in London

‘Automatic detection of morpho-syntactic violation in Dutch? a Mismatch Negativity (MMN) study’ by Cas Coopmans, Marijn Struiksma, Peter Coopmans, and Aoju Chen 

Associate editor for Laboratory Phonology

Aoju Chen has been appointed as associate editor for the journal Laboratory Phonology, the official journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. It publishes reports on scientific study of all phonological/phonetic aspects of spoken and signed language across domains of linguistics and related disciplines, e.g. psychology, computer science, and communication science. 

 

Successful PhD thesis defense

Anna Sara Romøren succesfully defended her PhD thesis titled 'Hunting highs and lows: The acquisition of prosodic focus marking in Swedish and Dutch at Utrecht University on 1 July, 2016.