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Camila Scaff

@camiscaff

Postdoc at the Human Ecology Group @evmed_ch, Zurich. Interested in #openscience, child development, psycholinguistics, behavioral ecology, evolutionary anthro

Joined April 2018
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Meg Cychosz@megseekosh27 Aug 2022
Are you teaching a course in phonetics or phonology this semester/quarter? Would you like your students to get some hands-on experience with linguistic research? Help us annotate [thousands of!] vocalizations from babies all over the world! zooniverse.org/projects/laac…
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ICIS@Infantstudies15 Jun 2022
The latest #infantstudies Baby Blog post is available! Expect the Unexpected: Studying Language Acquisition in Small-Scale Societies by Mireille Babineau @mirbabineau and 5 undergraduate students. Post features interviews by @CristiaAlex @camiscaff @ruthefoushee
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Kotoboo@Kotoboo16 Jun 2022
🚨 Any #caregiver, #educator or #workingwithchildren? Did you miss our survey? We want to hear from you! Help us learn how to make developmental science research accessible to you! It's online and only takes 2 minutes. CLICK➡️🔗cognitionens.eu.qualtrics.co…
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Kotoboo@Kotoboo126 May 2022
🚨 Are you a #caregiver, #educator or #workingwithchildren? We want to hear from you! You still have 1 month to help us learn how to make developmental science research accessible to parents and educators! It's online and only takes 2 minutes. CLICK➡️🔗cognitionens.eu.qualtrics.co…
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Really nice discussion of sleep and especially social sleep by @Inkfish describing recent work by @Primalprimate knowablemagazine.org/article…
The awake ape: Why people sleep less than their primate relatives

The awake ape: Why people sleep less than their primate relatives

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Kotoboo@Kotoboo110 Sep 2021
Kotoboo #mythbuster comic series is coming. Help us make content targeted to you. Share with us your favourite language development myths or any question about language development. 📝Fill out this 1 question survey! &🙏RT involve.me andrea-infant-research.invol…
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Kotoboo@Kotoboo12 Sep 2021
#MeetTheTeam Day 4. Camila @camiscaff works on the role of socio-ecological diversity in language and cognitive development. She is currently doing a postdoc at the Institute of evolutionary medicine in Zurich @evmed_ch #LatinxSTEM
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Our paper "Child-directed and overheard input from different speakers in two distinct cultures" was just accepted to Journal of Child Language! 🥳 @georgialoukatou is the first author, but she is moving, so I get the honors of telling you all about it!
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Kotoboo@Kotoboo113 Jul 2021
Do children need to hear each language equally to become bilingual? kotoboo.org/index.php/2021/0…
Do children need to hear each language equally to become bilingual?

Do children need to hear each language equally to become bilingual?

Some kids may hear Japanese at home and English at school. Other kids may hear one of their caregiver’s speak Spanish and the other French. Bilingual children grow up learning two languages, but ho…

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Kotoboo@Kotoboo11 Feb 2021
How do I read to a Deaf child? kotoboo.org/index.php/2021/0…
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Is a writing system necessary for language? kotoboo.org/index.php/2020/1…

Is a writing system necessary for language?

Learning to read and write can seem to many of us an essential step in acquiring a language. Yet, the majority of language learning happens before children begin to develop literacy skills. Learnin…

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Kotoboo@Kotoboo17 Dec 2020
How do we preserve the diversity of the world’s languages? kotoboo.org/index.php/2020/1…
How do we preserve the diversity of the world’s languages?

How do we preserve the diversity of the world’s languages?

ᐃᓄᑦᑎᑐᑦ : Inuttitut (in English: “Inuktitut”) It is much easier to find movies dubbed or subtitled in some languages than others. For some languages it can even be difficult to find just…

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A kaleidoscope of bilinguals kotoboo.org/index.php/2020/1…
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Kotoboo@Kotoboo12 Nov 2020
The best screens of 2020 kotoboo.org/index.php/2020/1…
The best screens of 2020

The best screens of 2020

Our modern lives are packed with screens galore, phones in our hands, computers in our offices, ads in the subway. In fact, you are looking at one right now!Some screens are only there to be looked…

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I couldn't agree more!! Excellent work organizing a conference in 3 time zones! Thank you @middycasillas @RanaAbuZhaya @CaroRowland !! #MPaL2020
Caitlin Holme (@HolmeCaitlin) profile pictureCaitlin Holme@HolmeCaitlin23 Oct 2020
Feeling inspired by the brilliant free online 2-day #MPaL2020 conference - such a great mix of talks, posters and opportunities to take part in live discussions. Lots to reflect on! Thank you @CaroRowland @RanaAbuZhaya @middycasillas for organising :)
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Kotoboo@Kotoboo128 Sep 2020
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Our (@CristiaAlex, @camiscaff, @j_stieglitz, @gifarabolini) paper on infant-directed input and literacy effects on phonological processing was just published in PLOS! journals.plos.org/plosone/ar… @CNRS @Cognition_ENS @IASToulouse

Infant-directed input and literacy effects on phonological processing: Non-word repetition scores...

Language input in childhood and literacy (and/or schooling) have been described as two key experiences impacting phonological processing. In this study, we assess phonological processing via a...

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Second session starting now! #vICIS2020
Laia Fibla (@FiblaLaia) profile pictureLaia Fibla@FiblaLaia6 Jul 2020
Looking forward to our symposium on early language across-cultures with @CristiaAlex @middycasillas and @camiscaff Today at 13:30 BST. Join us! #ViCIS #vICIS2020
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Just accepted in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience: Priming syntactic ambiguity resolution in children and adults. A paper where we use a tablet game to prime children and adults' interpretation of ambiguous sentences. Read on to hear more!
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Cog Tales@CogTalesTweet7 Jun 2020
So proud to announce kotoboo.org/ - a comic blog on language acquisition! A team of young language acquisition researchers started to create this site during covid, and we're happy to announce that we will publish one comic a week 1/2
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