Katrin Skoruppa

Since 2016: Professor of Speech and Language Pathology

Institute of Language Sciences and Communication, University of Neuchâtel

2014 – 2016: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Department of Language and Literature, University of Basel

2012 – 2014: Lecturer in Psycholinguistics

Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex

2009 – 2012: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Department for Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, UCL (London)

Advisor: Stuart Rosen

2006 – 2009: PhD in Linguistics

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris)

Title: Mechanisms of early phonological acquisition

Advisor: Sharon Peperkamp

2005 – 2006: Master in Cognitive Sciences

Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)

2000 – 2005: Diploma in Clinical Linguistics

(German equivalent of BA/MA), University of Potsdam

Articles in peer-reviewed journals. Some are available on rero.doc, researchgate or contact me if you would like a copy.

Schwob, S., & Skoruppa, K. (2022). Detecting Developmental Language Disorder in Monolingual and Bilingual Children: Comparison of Language-Specific and Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Tasks in French and Portuguese. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(3), 1159-1165.
Schwob, S., Eddé, L., Jacquin, L., Leboulanger, M., Picard, M., Oliveira, P. R., & Skoruppa, K. (2021). Using nonword repetition to identify developmental language disorder in monolingual and bilingual children: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(9), 3578-3593.
Schwob, S., & Skoruppa, K. (2021). L’identification du trouble développemental du langage oral chez les enfants bilingues français-portugais: les ressources a disposition des orthophonistes. Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology, 45(4), 251-267.
Paze, E., Schwob, S., Volpin, L. & Skoruppa, K. (2021). La prévention des difficultés langagières des enfants préscolaires: état des lieux des stratégies d’encouragement à privilégier dans un contexte monolingue et plurilingue. Travaux neuchâtelois de linguistique, 74, 129-145.
McCarthy, K. M., Skoruppa, K., & Iverson, P. (2019). Development of neural perceptual vowel spaces during the first year of life. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-7.
Skoruppa, K. (2019). Noun and verb learning in an artificial language in mono- and multilingual children: A multilingual verb learning advantage in German-learning first grade school children. Travaux Neuchâtelois de Linguistique, 71, 109-123.
Sundara, M., Ngon, C., Skoruppa, K., Feldman, N. H., Onario, G. M., Morgan, J. L., & Peperkamp, S. (2018). Young infants’ discrimination of subtle phonetic contrasts. Cognition 178, 57-66.
Madlener, K., Skoruppa, K. & Behrens, H. (2017). Gradual development of constructional complexity in German spatial language. Cognitive Linguistics 28 (4), 757–798.
Roche, J.; Jessen, M.; Weidinger, N.; Behrens, H.; Haberzettl, S.; Hasselhorn, M.; Ifenthaler, D.; Kapica, N.; Kecker, G.; Klein, W.; Madlener, K.; Pagonis, G.; Schug, M.; Skoruppa, K.; Terrasi-Haufe, E. & Thissen, F. (2016). Zur Entwicklung eines interaktiven Verfahrens der Sprachstandsermittlung bei mehrsprachig aufwachsenden Kindern – von der Idee zu ersten Umsetzungsschritten. Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht 21 (2), 127-142.
Skoruppa, K., Nevins, A., Gillard, A. & Rosen, S. (2015). The role of vowel phonotactics in native speech segmentation. Journal of Phonetics, 49, 67-76.
Skoruppa, K. & Rosen, S. (2014). Phonological processing in English-learning children with hearing impairment: Compensation for place assimilation in connected speech. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 57, 1127-1134.
Cauvet, E., Alves Limissuri, R., Millotte, S., Skoruppa, K., Margules, S. & Christophe, A. (2014): Function words constrain on-line recognition of nouns and verbs in French 18-month-olds. Language Learning and Development, 10, 1-18.
Skoruppa, K., Mani, N., Plunkett, K., Cabrol, D. & Peperkamp, S. (2013): Early word recognition in sentence context: French and English 24-month-olds’ perception of sentence-medial mispronunciations and assimilations. Infancy, 18, 1007-1029.
Skoruppa, K., Mani, N. & Peperkamp, S. (2013). Toddlers’ processing of phonological alternations: Early compensation for assimilation in English and French. Child Development, 84, 313-330.
Skoruppa, K., Pons, F., Bosch, L., Christophe, A., Cabrol, D. & Peperkamp, S. (2013): The development of word stress processing in French and Spanish infants. Language Learning and Development, 9, 88-104.
Skoruppa, K.*, Cristià, A.*, Peperkamp, S. & Seidl, A. (2011). English-learning infants’ perception of word stress patterns. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130, EL50-EL55. (* = joint first authors)
Skoruppa, K. & Peperkamp, S. (2011). Adaptation to a novel accent: Feature-based learning of context-sensitive phonological regularities. Cognitive Science, 35, 348-366.
Skoruppa, K., Pons, F., Christophe, A., Bosch, L., Dupoux, E., Sebastián-Gallés, N., Alves Limissuri, R. & Peperkamp, S. (2009). Language-specific stress perception by 9-month-old French and Spanish infants. Developmental Science, 12, 914-9.

Articles in peer-reviewed conference proceedings and book chapters. Please contact me if you would like a copy.

Skoruppa, K. ; Haid, A. & Schwob, S. (2019). National vignette: Switzerland. Dans : Law et al. (eds.). Managing Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Theory and Practice Across Europe and Beyond. Routledge.
Behrens, H., Madlener, K. & Skoruppa, K. (2016). The role of scaffolding in children’s questions: Implications for (preschool) language assessment from a usage-based perspective. In: Stefanowitsch, A. & Schoenefeld, D. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 237 – 259.
Skoruppa, K., Lambrechts, A. & Peperkamp, S. (2012). The role of phonetic distance in the acquisition of phonological alternations. In Lima, S.; Mullin, K. & Smith, B. (eds.). Proceedings of NELS 39, Vol. 2. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. pp. 717-729.