EDUCATION                                                                                                             << Back

PhD Student.  Stanford University [Stanford University], United States

Exchange     The Latin American School for Cognitive and Neural Sciences [LA School], Chile

Internship     RIKEN Brain Science Institute [RIKEN], Japan

Consulting     Tostan - Hewlett Foundation [Tostan], Senegal

M.Sc.     Stanford University [Stanford University], United States

           Joensuu yliopisto [University of Joensuu], Finland

          Universität Potsdam [University of Potsdam], Germany.

M.A.     Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina [Federal University of Santa Catarina], Brazil

            exchange: Universiteit van Amsterdam [University of Amsterdam], The Netherlands

B.A.     Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC, Brazil

            exchange: New York University, [New York University, NYU], United States

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE                                                                                         << Back

2012 - Tostan - Comunity-led Development (Senegal)

2007-2008 - Microsoft Research and Butler Hill Group - Portuguese Language Specialist

2006 - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin [Humboldt University Berlin]

2005 - Universiteit van Amsterdam

2004 - New York University - NYU

2003 - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil

PUBLICATIONS                                                                                                       << Back

Bion, R. A. H., Borovsky, A., Fernald, A. (in press) Referent selection and word learning in 18- and 24-month-old infants. Cognition  

Gomez, D., Benavides, S., Bion, R. A. H., Nespor, M., Mehler, J., Berent, I. (under review) Sonority hierarchy in the neonate brain.  

Yurovsky, D., Bion, R. A. H., Smith, L. Fernald, A. (in press) Mutual exclusivity and vocabulary structure. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.  

Bion, R. A. H., Miyazawa, K., Kikuchi, H., Mazuka, R. (in press) Learning phonemic vowel length from naturalistic recordings of Japanese infant-directed speech. PLoS ONE  

Langus, A., Marchetto, E., Bion, R. A. H., Nespor, M. (2012) The role of prosody in discovering hierarchical structure in continuous speech. Journal of Memory and Language, 66(1), 285–306  

Benavides, S., Gómez, D., Bion, R. A. H., Macagno, F., Mehler, J. (2011) Memory for words in neonates: a brain imaging study. PLoS ONE , 6(11), e27497  

Peña, M., Bion, R. A. H., Nespor, M. (2011) How modality specific is the iambic-trochaic law? Evidence from vision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37(5), 1199-1208  

Bion, R. A. H., Benavides, S., Nespor, M. (2011) Acoustic markers of prominence influence adults' and infants' segmentation of speech sequences. Language & Speech, 54(1), 123-40 

Toro, J. M., Pons, F., Bion, R. A. H., Sebastian Gallés, N. (2011) Statistical computations over linguistic stimuli are constrained by suprasegmental rules. Journal of Memory and Language, 64(2), 171-180  

Gómez, D., Bion, R. A. H., Mehler, J. (2011) Click detection and the road to word segmentation. Language and Cognitive Processes, 26(2), 212-223  

Frampton, M., Sripada, S. Bion, R. A. H., Peters, S. (2011) Detection of time-pressure induced stress in speech via acoustic indicators. 11th annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue.  

Escudero, P., Boersma, P., Rauber, A., Bion, R. A. H. (2009) A cross-dialect acoustic description of vowels: Brazilian versus European Portuguese. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126 (9) 1379-1393 

Bion, R. A. H.,  Escudero, P., Morrison, G. (2008) Dialectal effects in the perception of vowels produced by L1 and L2 speakers: North Carolinian versus Southern Welsh listeners. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 4 , 060005

Escudero, P., Bion, R. A. H. (2007) Modeling vowel normalization and sound perception as a

serial process. Proceedings of ICPhS 2007, Saarbrücken, Germany. 1413-1416

Bion, R. A. H., Höhle, B. and Schmitz, M. (2007) The role of prosody on the perception of word-order differences by 14-month-old German infants. Proceedings of ICPhS 2007,  Saarbrücken, Germany. 1537-1540

Kluge, D, Reis, M., Rauber, A., Bion, R. A. H. (2007) The relationship between the perception and production of English nasal codas by Brazilian learners of English. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2007, Antwerp, Belgium. 2297-2300

Bion, R. A. H., Escudero, P., & Rauber, A. S., Baptista, B.O. (2006). Category formation and the role of spectral quality in the perception and production of English front vowels. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2006, Pittsburgh. 1363-1366

Bion, R. A. H., Rauber, A. S., Baptista, B. O. (2006) Category formation and the role of spectral quality in the perception and production of English vowels. Proceedings of the II International Congress of Phonetics and Phonology. Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Sao Luís. 287-304.

Rauber, A. S., Escudero, P., Bion, R. A. H., Baptista, B. O (2005). The interrelation between the perception and production of English vowels by native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. 

Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2005, Lisbon. 2913-2916

Bion, R. A. H., Baptista, B. O., & Rauber, A. S. (2005). A aplicação de síntese da fala em testes de percepção de uma língua estrangeira. In O. A. Souza, C. C. Z. Branco, & M. C. Lopes (Eds.), Universidade: Ação e Interação. Guarapuava: Editora Universitária da Unicentro. 320-325.

Bion, R. A. H. (2004). O uso de estímulos sintéticos em testes de percepção de vogais de uma língua estrangeira. [The use of synthesized stimuli in second language vowel perception tests] Revista de Estudos da Linguagem, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 12 (2), 51-64.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS                                                                             << Back

2012

1.    One-to-one biases in a non-linguistic and non-communicative domain: young children map novel animal vocalizations to unfamiliar animals International Conference on Infant Studies Minneapolis, USA, June 6-9 (with Kyle MacDonald, Kat Adams, and Anne Fernald)

2.    Learning of phonemic vowel length from distributions of Japanese infant-directed speech Society for Research on Child Development. Minneapolis, USA, June 6-9 (with Reiko Mazuka)

3.    Learning of phonemic vowel length from distributions of Japanese infant-directed speech 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Sapporo, Japan, August 1-4 (with Reiko Mazuka)

4.    Mutual exclusivity and vocabulary structure 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Sapporo, Japan, August 1-4 (with Dan Yurovsky, Linda Smith, and Anne Fernald)

2011

1.    Referent selection and word learning in 18-, 24-, and 30-month-olds. Society for Research on Child Development. Montreal, Canada, March 31-April 3 (with Arielle Borovsky and Anne Fernald)

2.    Perceptual biases in the chunking of visual and auditory sequences in infants and adults. Society for Research on Child Development. Montreal, Canada, March 31-April 3 (with Marina Nespor and Marcela Peña)

3.    Linguistic knowledge modulates the recognition of statistically-coherent word candidates. 10th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics. San Sebastian, Spain, April 13-16 (with Nuria Sebastián-Galles and Juan Manuel Toro)

4.    Language universals in the newborn brain. BU Conference on Language Development. Boston, USA, November 4-6 (with Iris Berent, David Gomez, Marina Nespor, and Jacques Mehler)

2010

1.    Perceptual adaptation in 18-month-old infants. Brain Science Summer Retreat. Sendai, Japan, July 29-30

2.    Learning phonological duration from real distributions of Japanese infant-directed speech. Brain Science Summer Program. Tokyo, Japan, August 19.

3.    Detection of time-pressure induced stress in speech via acoustic indicators. 11th annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue Tokyo, Japan, September 24-25.

2009

1.    Memory for words in neonates: a brain imaging study. The anual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 26-August 1 (with Jacques Mehler, Silvia Benavides, and David Gómez)

2.    Memory for words in neonates: a brain imaging study. Memory and Mind: Learning and Representing Structures in the Brain and Mind. Budapest, Hungary, June 22-26 (with Jacques Mehler, Silvia Benavides, and David Gómez)

3.    Click! detection and speech seg!mentation. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science. Dubrovnic, Croatia, May 22-24 (with Jacques Mehler, and David Gómez)

4.    Memory for words in neonates: a brain imaging study. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science. Dubrovnic, Croatia, May 22-24 (with Jacques Mehler, Silvia Benavides, and David Gómez)

5.    Memory for words in neonates: a brain imaging study. SRCD 2009. Denver, USA, April 2-4 (with Jacques Mehler, Silvia Benavides, and David Gómez)

2008

1.    The role of prosody in discovering hierarchical structure in continous speech. 14th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Cambridge, UK (with Marina Nespor, Alan Langus, and Erika Marketto)

2.    Dialectal effects in the perception of vowels produced by first and second language speakers: North Carolinian versus Southern Welsh listeners. Acoustics’08. Paris, France (with Geoff Morrison and Paola Escudero)

2007

1.    The effect of first language and proficiency in the perception of Dutch vowels by Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking learners of Dutch. The 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Hamburg, Germany  (with Paola Escudero, Klara Weiand, and Jelle Kastelein)

2.    Modeling vowel normalization and sound perception as a serial process. 153rd Meeting of The Acoustical Society of America. Salt Lake City, USA (with Paola Escudero)

3.   The role of spectral and temporal cues in the perception and production of Brazilian Portuguese vowels. Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia. Braga, Portugal (with Andreia Rauber and Paola Escudero)

4.   The role of prosody on the perception of word-order differences by 14-month-old German infants. 30th Child Language Seminar. Reading, UK (with Barbara Höhle and Michaela Schmitz)

5.   Modeling vowel normalization and sound perception as a serial process. 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Saarbrücken, Germany (with Paola Escudero)

6.   The role of prosody on the perception of word-order differences by 14-month-old German infants. 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Saarbrücken, Germany (with Barbara Höhle and Michaela Schmitz)

7.   The relationship between the perception and production of English nasal codas by Brazilian learners of English. INTERSPEECH'2007, Antwerp, Belgium (with Denise Kluge, Andreia Rauber, Mara Reis and Denize Nobre-Oliveira)

8.   Phonological processing in bilingual speech production and perception. Rovereto Workshop on Bilingualism, Rovereto, Italy.

9.   A connectionist approach to interphonology. New Sounds 2007, Florianópolis, Brazil (with Marcia Zimmer)

2006

1.    Category formation and the role of spectral quality in the perception and production of English front vowels. INTERSPEECH 2006, Pittsburgh, USA (with Andreia Rauber, Barbara Baptista, and Paola Escudero)

2.    The L2 perception of Dutch vowels by native speakers of Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese: Phonological and orthographic effects. The 12th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing,  Nijmegen, The Netherlands (with Paola Escudero)

3.    Brazilian learners of English: Accent in the perception and production of new sounds. Georgetown University Portuguese and Spanish Symposium, Washington, USA.

4.    An acoustic description of Brazilian Portuguese vowels. III Congresso Internacional de Fonética e Fonologia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (with Andreia Rauber and Barbara Baptista).

2005

1.    The role of spectral quality in the perception and production of English vowels. Workshop on Models of L1 and L2 phonetics/phonology, Utrecht, The Netherlands (with Paola Escudero, Barbara Baptista, and Andréia Rauber)

2.    The interrelation between the perception and production of English vowels by native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. INTERSPEECH 2005, Lisbon, Portugal (with Paola Escudero, Barbara  Baptista, and Andréia Rauber)

3.    The discrimination and production of English vowels by Brazilian learners. 1st ASA Workshop on Second Language Speech Learning, Vancouver, Canada (with Barbara Baptista)

4.    The perception and production of English vowels by native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. 1st ASA Workshop on Second Language Speech Learning, Vancouver, Canada (with Barbara Baptista and Andréia Rauber)

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