Jessica Carolyn Weiner-Bühler

Jessica Carolyn Weiner-Bühler
University of Basel | UNIBAS · Personality and Developmental Psychology

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
My current research focuses on examining the developmental trajectories of language, socio-emotional and metacognitive skills in young children growing up in mono- and bilingual families at the behavioral level. I also have a background in Cognitive Neurosciences and am interested in how the brain works when it processes language (and language variants).

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This study investigates how dual language learning preschooler's code-switching relates to their linguistic and cognitive strengths and challenges. Utilizing a cross-sectional approach, we examined preschool-aged children in Switzerland and Germany acquiring a societal language (German or French) together with a heritage language (Italian or Turkis...
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Although extensive research has been conducted on bilingual vocabulary acquisition, there is still no consensus on how to assess vocabulary development in bilingual or multilingual children under three, given the complexity of learning words in two languages. This study investigates the developmental trajectories of productive and receptive vocabul...
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A good deal of research purports that bilingualism has a positive effect on some aspects of cognitive functioning. However, this effect is not consistent, and little research examines trajectories of cognitive skill development in bilingual children. Moreover, it remains unclear whether different types of bilingualism impact how cognitive abilities...
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Code-switching, switching between different languages within the same conversation, is a prominent feature in bilingual communication. This study aimed to elucidate to what extent the linguistic abilities and age of dual-language-learning preschoolers influence the frequency and purposes of code-switching ( compensatory , to bridge linguistic gaps;...
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When children learn to read, they map visual symbols to spoken language units. This mapping process may be impaired in children who speak a dialect due to a linguistic mismatch at various linguistic levels. We first summarize results from previously published studies on behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying reading acquisition in German-speak...
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This PhD thesis examines neural mechanisms of linguistic mismatch in adults and children based on dialect familiarity and the impact of speaking Swiss German (CHG) dialect on early reading and spelling acquisition in Standard German (StG). Study 1 investigated familiarity effects for dialect-based phonological processing in adults and employed an...
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During literacy acquisition, children learn to match written and spoken language. Little is known about how this is achieved by children who grow up speaking a dialect. The present study examined literacy-related skills before school in 71 children (meanage: 7.61y) with a differing degree of exposure to Swiss-German (SwissG) dialect and tested thei...
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During literacy acquisition, children learn to match written and spoken language. Little is known about how this is achieved by children who grow up speaking a dialect. The present study examined literacy-related skills before school in 71 children (meanage: 7.61y) with a differing degree of exposure to Swiss-German (SwissG) dialect and tested thei...
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Although familiarity with a language impacts how phonology and semantics are processed at the neural level, little is known how these processes are affected by familiarity with a dialect. By measuring event-related potentials (ERPs) in kindergarten children we investigated neural processing related to familiarity with dialect-specific pronunciation...
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Using an electroencephalography (EEG)-based mismatch negativity (MMN) paradigm, we investigated whether higher familiarity with a dialectal variety of German (Swiss German (CHG) vs. Standard German (StG)) impacted speech perception at the neural and the behavioural level. Specifically, we examined 30 CHG- and StG-native adults, by contrasting a pse...

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Dear fellow researchers,
I am a postdoc researcher and have published 3 papers and a book chapter under my maiden name. However, I got married last year and changed my legal name to that of my husband's. As some co-authors and I are soon to submit a manuscript, I need some advice on how to list my name in the authors list. There are several possibilities:
1. stick with my maiden name.
2. start publishing under my new name.
3a. Hyphenate my name: maiden-new
3b. Hyphenate my name: new-maiden
I am looking forward to reading your comments and suggestions.
Thanks in advance and kind regards!
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Dear all, a PhD student of mine would like to examine whether the percentage of overlap for different non-verbal IQ tasks differs significantly for the percentage of overlap for a number of verbal IQ tasks. The problem is that she is using a data set that is not directly independent because she has an n = 1202 for the non-verbal domain but an n =1038 for the verbal domain. I am assuming a Chi-Square test does not work because the samples are not independent.
Does anyone have a quick solve for this problem?
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Hi,
Can anyone point out to me some good website examples for research projects examining skill development in children? I am working on a multi-site project and we would like to have a "corporate design" and a centralized plattform where we can post study information etc. ...
Can anyone help me?
Thank you in advance!
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Hi, I am trying to construct a receptive phonology task (i.e., odd-one-out: "bli" "bli" "bla", which sounded different?) for 3-year old children with various language backgrounds. As I want to compare kids with speaking different languages, I need to construct parallel tests with comparable item difficulty. I have found consonant and vowel confusion matirces for German and French (sadly only adult's data) but not (yet) for Italian and Turkish. Can anyone help me out?
Kind regards,
Jessica
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For my cross-language research project, I am trying to compile parallel/twin items for a (language-specific) nonword repetition task. One of the languages we are planning to examine is Turkish (aside from German, French and Italian). I am accounting for age of acquisition for compiling comparable tests items and also would like to have a look at letter frequencies. Although, I am well aware of the fact that high letter frequency does not mean easy speech sound production! I have not been able to find this specific information online. Can anyone help me?
Worstcase scenario, I just will have to concoct something myself by taking a representative Turkish text and using a letter frequency calculating tool. However, if this information already exists on a larger scale, I would love to use this information.

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