In the English language, speakers often alternate between sentences like (1) and (2) when producing complex sentences¹. 1. [Tom thinks] that (the cake shop is closed today).[Main clause] +…
Seminars, News, Events & Blog - 2018
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We have added a series of new resources to our website on supporting families with shared reading in the home. This bundle contains a range of helpful materials, including guides for practitioners,…
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Over the summer I spent six weeks on a LuCiD summer internship supervised by Dr Katie Twomey and Dr Alissa Ferry, assisting with research into children’s acquisition of categories at the basic and…
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Do you work in early years settings in the UK? Help our researchers identify how children’s language and communication development is monitored in different settings throughout their first few years.
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Dr Perrine Brusini (University of Liverpool) will give the next LuCiD Seminar on on the In(put) and Out(put) of Syntactic Acquisition. The seminar will take place from 11 -12.30 on Tuesday 6th…
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Join us at Manchester Central Library on Thursday 8th November, for 'Little Chatterboxes' and discover how children learn to communicate with language. Take part in fun, hands-on activities all linked…