Pascal Zesiger
Group name: Processing, acquisition and disorders of language
Affiliations: Faculty of Psychology and Science of Education, Psychology Section
Domains: Language and Communication
Keywords: child development, language, orthography acquisition, working memory
Research activities
Different research axes on normal and language disordered children are pursued: 1. Several research projects on early language acquisition are in progress in our « baby » lab on word comprehension in the infant (about 16 months), and the other on the specification of phonological representations in the infant (12 and 18 months). 2. Several studies on the role of phonology and phonological working memory in language acquisition have been conducted with children (4-5 years old) to examine the relation between lexical and grammar mastery, on the one hand, and the phonological and metaphonological abilities and working memory, on the other. 3. The acquisition of lexical and grammatical orthography (in collaboration with Prof. M.-A. Schelstraete, Université Catholique de Louvain) has been studied in various experiments with children ending their primary school (5P). The aim of these studies is to better understand the factors that contribute to the acquisition of both lexical and grammatical orthography.
Latest publications
Effects of word length and frequency on word identification in second- and fifth-grade children as a function of language skills.
Convergence and divergence in prediction from vocabulary and speed of word processing.
Touching while listening: Does infants' haptic word processing speed predict vocabulary development?
Does learning to read affect naming skills? Insights from ERPs during letter and picture naming tasks.
Contact
Faculté de psychologie et sciences de l’éducation
Université de Genève
Email: Pascal.Zesiger@unige.ch