Seminar Recordings

We are now trying to record our seminars so those unable to attend them can access them. Any recorded seminars will be listed here:

• Exploring systematicity in the developing lexicon with phonological networks, Catherine Laing (University of York), 6/2/24
• The generality of expectation violation as a mechanism for language learning, Dr Chiara Gambi (University of Warwick), 9/1/24
• The Dynamics of Early Word Learning, Dr Chi-hsin Chen (University of Liverpool), 5/12/23
• Visual habituation in deaf infants and its connections to language, Dr. Claire Monroy (Keele University), 14/11/23
• An infant-led intervention to encourage vocalisations and facilitate word learning, Prof Tamar Keren-Portnoy (University of York), 02/05/23
• Predicting cross-linguistic influence, structural priming and primeability in bilingual children, Dr Sharon Unsworth (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands), 04/04/23
• Investigating learning mechanisms with miniature artificial language learning, Prof Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of Oregon), 23/03/23
• Understanding Children’s Multimodal Conversational Development, Dr Abdellah Fourtassi (Aix-Marseille University), 07/03/23
• Modelling children's early language learning by building cross-linguistic data resources, Prof Michael Frank (Stanford University) , 07/06/22
• Cross-cultural differences in the relationship between language and Theory of Mind development, Dr Silke Brandt (Lancaster University), 07/06/22
• Learning words from overheard language input, Assoc Prof Sudha Arunachalam (NYU Steinhardt), 10/05/22
• The role of prediction in language development, Dr Judit Fazekas (University of Manchester), 05/04/22
• Exploring the role of information structure in understanding pronouns, Dr Liam Blything (University of Liverpool), 01/02/22
• Curiosity-driven learning in early childhood, Prof Nivedita Mani (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), 11/01/22
• Principles of Embodied Language learning: Active Infants in Structured Psysical, Social, and Cultural Environments, Prof Catherine Tamis Le-Monda (NYU Steinhardt) & Dr Catalina Suarez-Rivera (UCL), 02/11/21 
• How high quality language environments create high quality learning environments, Prof Kathryn Hirsch-Pasek (Temple University), 05/10/21 
• The effectiveness of early language intervention, Prof Charles Hulme (University of Oxford), 29/6/21 
• How does short-term syntactic priming lead to long-term language learning?, Dr Kate Messenger (University of Manchester), 9/3/21
• Noise and development: Infant attention in the middle of everything, Dr Natasha Kirkham (Birkbeck), 2/2/21
• Retrieval-based word learning in children with developmental language disorder (DLD), Prof Laurence B. Leonard (Purdue University), 12/1/21
• Stability and change in developmental language disorder: implications for practice, Prof Courtenay Norbury, 1/12/20
• Acquisition across languages and across cultures, Dr Alex Cristia (CNRS, Paris), 3/11/20
• Virtual bargaining: The hidden logic of joint action and communication, Prof Nick Chater (University of Warwick), 6/10/20
• Risk factors for poor reading: Implications for the relationship between dyslexia and developmental language disorder, Prof Maggie Snowling (University of Oxford). 4/2/2020
• The in(put) and (out)put of syntax acquisition, Dr Perrine Brusini (University of Liverpool). 06/11/18
• The acquisition and evolution of linguistic variation, Dr Kenny Smith (University of Edinburgh). 08/05/18
• Bootstrapping language acquisition, Prof Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)- audio and screen capture of the slides. 10/04/18
• Investigating the effectiveness of SLT interventions in a special school for children and adolescents with severe language disorders, Dr Susan Ebbels (UCL and Moor House School). 06/02/18
• Socioeconomic disparities in early language development, Prof Meredith Rowe (Harvard Graduate School of Education) - audio recording only. View the PDF of the slides from this talk. 12/12/17
• New insights into curiosity-driven learning, Dr Katie Twomey (University of Manchester). 07/11/17
• Child Language as a Life Chances Indicator, Prof James Law (Newcastle University)- audio and screen capture of the slides. 07/02/17