For 6 weeks in the summer, I worked as a LuCiD Intern at the University of Manchester’s Child Study Centre. I was supervised by Prof Anna Theakston and contributed towards the ongoing project…
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This summer (July-August 2019), I had the fantastic opportunity to spend three weeks at the Computational Cognition and Learning Laboratory, Indiana University, working with Prof. Chen Yu. This was…
Every year, governments, charities and local authorities spend millions of pounds on training, or exhorting, teachers and parents to talk to children. Even President Obama has got in on the act.
One of the most important milestones for babies is the ability to engage in joint attention – the shared focus of two individuals on an object. However, it is unclear how babies develop this skill. An…
The Language 0-5 Project is almost at an end, and it is incredible how quickly the time has flown! Launched in 2014, we took on the ambitious task of following the language journeys of 80 children…
A lot of research into children’s language development is on English. But English is a peculiar language when you compare it to the languages of the world. Unlike many languages in which the order of…