Annika Junker

Annika Junker, MSc

PhD Student

Language, ACQuisition, DIVersity Lab

NCCR Evolving Language

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I am a PhD student at the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution at the University of Zurich. I hold a BSc in Psychology from the Complutense University, Madrid, and a MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology from the University of Padova.
My doctoral project is embedded in the Input Feature task within the NCCR Evolving Language. Under the supervision of Sabine Stoll, Marie Schaer, and Nina Kazanina, I investigate the impact of child-directed speech on language development in children with autism spectrum disorder and typically developing children. Using multiple methods, including corpus analysis, behavioural and neurophysiological experiments, I explore how different acoustic and structural features of linguistic input promote language learning in these two populations.