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Overview

René Kager is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research broadly spans the field of psychology, with a particular focus on developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, language and linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics covered by René Kager's work include:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

René Kager has published extensively in a number of academic outlets. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Child Language
  • Infant Behavior and Development
  • Language Learning and Development
  • Developmental Science
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by René Kager are:

  • Language Specificity of Infant-directed Speech: Speaking Rate and Word Position in Word-learning Contexts, 2021, Language Learning and Development
  • Lexical and Prosodic Pitch Modifications in Cantonese Infant-directed Speech, 2021, Journal of Child Language
  • The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross-linguistic, multi-lab report, 2023, Developmental Science
  • Infants' behaviours elicit different verbal, nonverbal, and multimodal responses from caregivers during early play, 2023, Infant Behavior and Development
  • Relating the prosody of infant-directed speech to children's vocabulary size, 2023, Journal of Child Language

René Kager frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Patrick C. M. Wong
  • Mengru Han
  • Anika van der Klis
  • Frans Adriaans
  • Nivja H. de Jong

Best Publications

  • A Metrical Theory of Stress and Destressing in English and Dutch

    R.W.J. Kager

  • Alternatives to the iambic-trochaic law

    R.W.J. Kager

  • The metrical theory of word stress

    R.W.J. Kager

  • The prosody-morphology interface

    René Kager;Harry van der Hulst;Wim Zonneveld

  • Quantitative Consequences of Rhythmic Organization

    Mark Hewitt;Kevin Hegg;Junko Itô;René Kager

  • On affix allomorphy and syllable counting

    R.W.J. Kager

  • Constraints in Phonological Acquisition

    René Kager;Joe Pater;Wim Zonneveld

  • Stress in windows: Language typology and factorial typology

    René Kager

  • Rhythmic directionality by positional licensing

    R.W.J. Kager

  • Perception of tones by infants learning a non-tone language.

    Liquan Liu;René Kager

  • Rhythmic vowel deletion in Optimality Theory

    R.W.J. Kager

  • Schwa, syllables, and extrametricality in Dutch

    René Kager;Wim Zonneveld

  • Ternary rhythm and the lapse constraint

    Nine Elenbaas;René Kager

  • Adding Generalization to Statistical Learning: The Induction of Phonotactics from Continuous Speech.

    Frans Adriaans;René Kager

  • Consequences of catalexis

    R.W.J. Kager

  • Extrametricality and stress in Spanish and Italian

    Els Den Os;René Kager

  • Linking Variation in Perception and Production in Sound Change: Evidence from Dutch Obstruent Devoicing

    Anne-France Pinget;René Kager;Hans Van de Velde;Hans Van de Velde

  • Stem stress and peak correspondence in Dutch

    R.W.J. Kager

  • Shapes of the generalised trochee

    R.W.J. Kager

  • Language Specificity of Infant-directed Speech: Speaking Rate and Word Position in Word-learning Contexts

    Mengru Han;Nivja H. de Jong;René Kager

  • Perception of a native vowel contrast by Dutch monolingual and bilingual infants: A bilingual perceptual lead

    Liquan Liu;René Kager

  • Lexical irregularity and the typology of contrast

    R.W.J. Kager

  • Representations of [voice] : Evidence from acquisition

    R.W.J. Kager;S. van der Feest;P. Fikkert;A. Kerkhoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Sharon Peperkamp
Sharon Peperkamp École Normale Supérieure
Patrick C. M. Wong
Patrick C. M. Wong Chinese University of Hong Kong
Andrew Nevins
Andrew Nevins Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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