Suzy J. STYLES

Appointment: Associate Professor
Director of the Brain, Language and Intersensory Perception Lab (BLIP Lab), Psychology, NTU

Suzy J. Styles is a developmental psycholinguist specializing in the interaction between language and the development of sensory systems. She trained in Linguistics and Japanese at the Australian National University and Tohoku University, and in Psycholinguistics at the University of Oxford, where she held a Career Development Fellowship at the Department of Experimental Psychology and St Hugh's College. She is an Associate Professor and Director of the Brain, Language and Inter-sensory Processing Lab (BLIP Lab) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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Pre Registration for: Investigation of Parents’ Choice of Topic-Comment Sentence Construction During Parent-Child Talk Using Narratives Collected From the Talk Together Study’ Jan 26, 2024 - Red Dot Parent-Child Talk: Topic Comment Constructions Ng, S. X. Lynn; Styles, Suzy J, 2024, "Pre Registration for: Investigation of Parents’ Choice of Topic-Comment Sentence Construction During Parent-Child Talk Using Narratives Collected From the Talk Together Study’", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/HDSYAO, DR-NTU (Data), V2 Translanguaging refers to the act of multilinguals drawing from their full linguistic repertoire of all their languages without being limited to the rules of any one language (Aiseng, 2022; Otheguy et al., 2015), allowing the speakers to maximise their communicative potentials by...
Mental State Events in the Talk Together Study: T1 Nov 24, 2023 - Mental State Events in the Talk Together Study Tay, Weilin; Wee, Rachel MY; Styles, Suzy J, 2022, "Mental State Events in the Talk Together Study: T1", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/NYTEUD, DR-NTU (Data), V2, UNF:6:jbLLYt36W1jPFwTGnPCIeA== [fileUNF] This dataset contains all Mental State Events identified by two coders in the speech of parents narrating the wordless storybook 'What a Scary Storm!' during the Talk together study to their toddlers and preschool aged children, in Singapore. The coded data are derived from the f...
Pre-registration for Influence of Language Dominance on Filipino’s Categorical Perception of English Phonemes Oct 18, 2023 - Perception of English Phonemes in South East Asian English varieties Paca, Angelie M. G; Styles, Suzy J, 2024, "Pre-registration for Influence of Language Dominance on Filipino’s Categorical Perception of English Phonemes", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/PXDSGA, DR-NTU (Data), V1 This paper, seeks to investigate the phenomenon of categorical perception among Filipinos from both the Philippines and Singapore who speak English and a native language of the Philippines. The aim is to examine whether one’s dominant language being a language of the Philippines,...
Preregistration for the roles of education, age of child and perceptions towards the importance of personal expression through language in the production of Singlish discourse markers from parents to children Sep 27, 2023 - Red Dot Parent/Child Talk - Discourse Markers Ho, E. E. J; Styles, Suzy J, 2023, "Preregistration for the roles of education, age of child and perceptions towards the importance of personal expression through language in the production of Singlish discourse markers from parents to children", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/HJXSNF, DR-NTU (Data), V1 Discourse markers (or discourse particles) are small words that perform pragmatic functions in an utterance (Wee, 2004). For example, it could denote a speaker’s attitude (e.g. “leh” for impatience in Singlish), to express emotion (“sia” for relief in Singlish), or to express cer...
Development and Evaluation data for Multilingual Everyday Recordings - Language Identification on Code-Switched Child-Directed Speech (MERLIon CCS) Challenge Aug 11, 2023 - MERLIon CCS Challenges Chua, Victoria Yi Han; Garcia Perera, Leibny Paola; Khudanpur, Sanjeev; Khong, Andy W. H.; Dauwels, Justin; Woon, Fei Ting; Styles, Suzy J, 2023, "Development and Evaluation data for Multilingual Everyday Recordings - Language Identification on Code-Switched Child-Directed Speech (MERLIon CCS) Challenge", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/ANXS8Z, DR-NTU (Data), V1, UNF:6:QFBERdU0YulYhMohwDaNWg== [fileUNF] The inaugural Multilingual Everyday Recordings - Language Identification on Code-Switched Child-Directed Speech (MERLIon CCS) Challenge focuses on developing robust language identification and language diarization systems that are reliable for non-standard, accented, spontaneous...
MERLIon CCS Challenge Development and Evaluation Datasets Open Preview (Documentation) Aug 11, 2023 - MERLIon CCS Challenges Chua, Victoria Yi Han; Styles, Suzy J, 2023, "MERLIon CCS Challenge Development and Evaluation Datasets Open Preview (Documentation)", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/4RHC3D, DR-NTU (Data), V1, UNF:6:gMeqVZk9eCvbqN6QXFyuWg== [fileUNF] The inaugural Multilingual Everyday Recordings - Language Identification on Code-Switched Child-Directed Speech (MERLIon CCS) Challenge focuses on developing robust language identification and language diarization systems that are reliable for non-standard, accented, spontaneous...
Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park Styles, Suzy J; Fong, Seraphina; Pan, Lei; Woon, Fei Ting; Chua, YH Victoria, 2023, "Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/NF4T2Z, DR-NTU (Data), V1, UNF:6:WQq3Zz+/vGffGbIA0h/gAw== [fileUNF] In the domain of speech elicitation, it is well understood that participants speak differently when producing different kinds of speech. In particular, speakers tend to use more ‘standard’ pronunciations when reading individual words in isolation, as compared to reading words wit...
Lingual ultrasounds of speech - vowel triangle tokens (sheep, shark, shoe) May 20, 2023 - Speech Ultrasounds Styles, Suzy J; Goh, Hannah L, 2023, "Lingual ultrasounds of speech - vowel triangle tokens (sheep, shark, shoe)", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/EQ77KH, DR-NTU (Data), V1 Lingual ultrasounds created to demonstrate dynamics of speech articulation for teaching and scientific outreach. Articulations of 'sheep' 'shark' 'shoe' repeated three times. Vocal performance by Prof Primate, recorded by Hannah Letitia Goh, with equipment and training from Scott...
Talk Wheel - Eight top tips for enjoying talk together with your little-ones May 9, 2023 - Talk Together Materials Styles, Suzy J, 2023, "Talk Wheel - Eight top tips for enjoying talk together with your little-ones", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/0O80GR, DR-NTU (Data), V1 Parent-child talk is an opportunity for bonding and developing your child’s language skills. Many speech scientists believe that engaging in more talk with your children helps them build strong foundations for language. We created a special Talk Wheel with eight tips to help pare...
Methods and Data for: Eight truths, eight lies: an experiment on recursive mindreading and social memory 2023 Apr 13, 2023 - Memory and language Teo, Symantha AQ; Styles, Suzy J, 2023, "Methods and Data for: Eight truths, eight lies: an experiment on recursive mindreading and social memory 2023", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/K8MWHX, DR-NTU (Data), V2 Methods and Data files. This study aims to explore the potential relationship between one’s mental verb vocabulary size, and their ability to mentalise. While multiple studies have been conducted on the limit of adults’ mentalizing ability (Kinderman et al., 1988; Stiller et al.,...

Pre Registration for: Investigation of Parents’ Choice of Topic-Comment Sentence Construction During Parent-Child Talk Using Narratives Collected From the Talk Together Study’

Jan 26, 2024 - Red Dot Parent-Child Talk: Topic Comment Constructions

Ng, S. X. Lynn; Styles, Suzy J, 2024, "Pre Registration for: Investigation of Parents’ Choice of Topic-Comment Sentence Construction During Parent-Child Talk Using Narratives Collected From the Talk Together Study’", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/HDSYAO, DR-NTU (Data), V2

Translanguaging refers to the act of multilinguals drawing from their full linguistic repertoire of all their languages without being limited to the rules of any one language (Aiseng, 2022; Otheguy et al., 2015), allowing the speakers to maximise their communicative potentials by...

Mental State Events in the Talk Together Study: T1

Nov 24, 2023 - Mental State Events in the Talk Together Study

Tay, Weilin; Wee, Rachel MY; Styles, Suzy J, 2022, "Mental State Events in the Talk Together Study: T1", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/NYTEUD, DR-NTU (Data), V2, UNF:6:jbLLYt36W1jPFwTGnPCIeA== [fileUNF]

This dataset contains all Mental State Events identified by two coders in the speech of parents narrating the wordless storybook 'What a Scary Storm!' during the Talk together study to their toddlers and preschool aged children, in Singapore. The coded data are derived from the f...

Pre-registration for Influence of Language Dominance on Filipino’s Categorical Perception of English Phonemes

Oct 18, 2023 - Perception of English Phonemes in South East Asian English varieties

Paca, Angelie M. G; Styles, Suzy J, 2024, "Pre-registration for Influence of Language Dominance on Filipino’s Categorical Perception of English Phonemes", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/PXDSGA, DR-NTU (Data), V1

This paper, seeks to investigate the phenomenon of categorical perception among Filipinos from both the Philippines and Singapore who speak English and a native language of the Philippines. The aim is to examine whether one’s dominant language being a language of the Philippines,...

Preregistration for the roles of education, age of child and perceptions towards the importance of personal expression through language in the production of Singlish discourse markers from parents to children

Sep 27, 2023 - Red Dot Parent/Child Talk - Discourse Markers

Ho, E. E. J; Styles, Suzy J, 2023, "Preregistration for the roles of education, age of child and perceptions towards the importance of personal expression through language in the production of Singlish discourse markers from parents to children", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/HJXSNF, DR-NTU (Data), V1

Discourse markers (or discourse particles) are small words that perform pragmatic functions in an utterance (Wee, 2004). For example, it could denote a speaker’s attitude (e.g. “leh” for impatience in Singlish), to express emotion (“sia” for relief in Singlish), or to express cer...

Development and Evaluation data for Multilingual Everyday Recordings - Language Identification on Code-Switched Child-Directed Speech (MERLIon CCS) Challenge

Aug 11, 2023 - MERLIon CCS Challenges

Chua, Victoria Yi Han; Garcia Perera, Leibny Paola; Khudanpur, Sanjeev; Khong, Andy W. H.; Dauwels, Justin; Woon, Fei Ting; Styles, Suzy J, 2023, "Development and Evaluation data for Multilingual Everyday Recordings - Language Identification on Code-Switched Child-Directed Speech (MERLIon CCS) Challenge", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/ANXS8Z, DR-NTU (Data), V1, UNF:6:QFBERdU0YulYhMohwDaNWg== [fileUNF]

The inaugural Multilingual Everyday Recordings - Language Identification on Code-Switched Child-Directed Speech (MERLIon CCS) Challenge focuses on developing robust language identification and language diarization systems that are reliable for non-standard, accented, spontaneous...

MERLIon CCS Challenge Development and Evaluation Datasets Open Preview (Documentation)

Aug 11, 2023 - MERLIon CCS Challenges

Chua, Victoria Yi Han; Styles, Suzy J, 2023, "MERLIon CCS Challenge Development and Evaluation Datasets Open Preview (Documentation)", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/4RHC3D, DR-NTU (Data), V1, UNF:6:gMeqVZk9eCvbqN6QXFyuWg== [fileUNF]

Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool

Jul 10, 2023 - Green Grass Park

Styles, Suzy J; Fong, Seraphina; Pan, Lei; Woon, Fei Ting; Chua, YH Victoria, 2023, "Green Grass Park (Split Language Labels) - A SESAME Research Tool", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/NF4T2Z, DR-NTU (Data), V1, UNF:6:WQq3Zz+/vGffGbIA0h/gAw== [fileUNF]

In the domain of speech elicitation, it is well understood that participants speak differently when producing different kinds of speech. In particular, speakers tend to use more ‘standard’ pronunciations when reading individual words in isolation, as compared to reading words wit...

Lingual ultrasounds of speech - vowel triangle tokens (sheep, shark, shoe)

May 20, 2023 - Speech Ultrasounds

Styles, Suzy J; Goh, Hannah L, 2023, "Lingual ultrasounds of speech - vowel triangle tokens (sheep, shark, shoe)", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/EQ77KH, DR-NTU (Data), V1

Lingual ultrasounds created to demonstrate dynamics of speech articulation for teaching and scientific outreach. Articulations of 'sheep' 'shark' 'shoe' repeated three times. Vocal performance by Prof Primate, recorded by Hannah Letitia Goh, with equipment and training from Scott...

Talk Wheel - Eight top tips for enjoying talk together with your little-ones

May 9, 2023 - Talk Together Materials

Styles, Suzy J, 2023, "Talk Wheel - Eight top tips for enjoying talk together with your little-ones", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/0O80GR, DR-NTU (Data), V1

Parent-child talk is an opportunity for bonding and developing your child’s language skills. Many speech scientists believe that engaging in more talk with your children helps them build strong foundations for language. We created a special Talk Wheel with eight tips to help pare...

Methods and Data for: Eight truths, eight lies: an experiment on recursive mindreading and social memory 2023

Apr 13, 2023 - Memory and language

Teo, Symantha AQ; Styles, Suzy J, 2023, "Methods and Data for: Eight truths, eight lies: an experiment on recursive mindreading and social memory 2023", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/K8MWHX, DR-NTU (Data), V2

Methods and Data files. This study aims to explore the potential relationship between one’s mental verb vocabulary size, and their ability to mentalise. While multiple studies have been conducted on the limit of adults’ mentalizing ability (Kinderman et al., 1988; Stiller et al.,...

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