Suzanne Aussems (Associate Professor)
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Outline of work: Interests: Developmental Psychology, Gesture Studies, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Development Personal webpage: |
Representative Publications:
- Aussems, S. (2025). How to implement a unified multimodal framework of first language acquisition: A commentary on Karad枚ller, S眉mer, and 脰zy眉rek. First Language. Advance online publication.
- Aussems, S., Devey Smith, L., & Kita, S. (2024). Do 14–17-month-old infants use iconic speech and gesture cues to interpret word meanings? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156(1), 638–654.
- Mumford, K. H., Aussems, S., & Kita, S. (2022). Encouraging pointing with the right hand, but not the left hand, gives right-handed 3-year-olds a linguistic advantage. Developmental Science, 26(3), e13315.
- Aussems, S., Mumford, K. H., & Kita, S. (2022). Prior experience with actions facilitates 3-year-old children鈥檚 verb learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(1), 246–262.
- Zuniga-Montanez, C., Kita, S., Aussems, S., & Krott, A. (2022). Beyond the shape of things: Infants can be taught to generalise nouns by function. Psychological Science, 32(7), 1073–1085.
- Aussems, S., & Kita, S. (2021). Seeing iconic gesture promotes first- and second-order verb generalization in preschoolers. Child Development, 92(1), 124–141.
- Aussems, S., & Kita, S. (2019). Seeing iconic gestures with action events facilitates children鈥檚 memory of these events. Child Development, 90(4), 1123–1137.
Supervisor to:
Teruni Ahamat
Mingtong Li