Outline of work: Interests: Developmental Psychology, Gesture Studies, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Development Personal webpage: https://suzanneaussems.github.io/Link opens in a new window Contact Details

Representative Publications:

• Aussems, S. (2025). How to implement a unified multimodal framework of first language acquisition: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek. First Language. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237251325989Link opens in a new window
• Aussems, S., Devey Smith, L., & Kita, S. (2024). Do 14–17-month-old infants use iconic speech and gesture cues to interpret word meanings? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156(1), 638–654. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0027916Link opens in a new window 
• Mumford, K. H., Aussems, S., & Kita, S. (2022). Encouraging pointing with the right hand, but not the left hand, gives right-handed 3-year-olds a linguistic advantage. Developmental Science, 26(3), e13315. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13315Link opens in a new window
• Aussems, S., Mumford, K. H., & Kita, S. (2022). Prior experience with actions facilitates 3-year-old children’s verb learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(1), 246–262. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001071Link opens in a new window
• Zuniga-Montanez, C., Kita, S., Aussems, S., & Krott, A. (2022). Beyond the shape of things: Infants can be taught to generalise nouns by function. Psychological Science, 32(7), 1073–1085. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797621993107Link opens in a new window
• Aussems, S., & Kita, S. (2021). Seeing iconic gesture promotes first- and second-order verb generalization in preschoolers. Child Development, 92(1), 124–141. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13392Link opens in a new window
• Aussems, S., & Kita, S. (2019). Seeing iconic gestures with action events facilitates children’s memory of these events. Child Development, 90(4), 1123–1137. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12988Link opens in a new window

Supervisor to:

Teruni Ahamat
Mingtong Li