On November 14th I attended a ‘Summit’ convened by government to engage the business community, media organisations, academics, charities and others in a national effort to improve the way parents…
Seminars, News, Events & Blog
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Dr Mits Ota (University of Edinburgh) will give the next LuCiD seminar on the role of register-specific words in early lexical development. The seminar will take place from 11-12.30 on Tuesday 4th…
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Last month I submitted my PhD at the Lancaster University. As part of the LuCiD project, I investigated how infants use communicative signals, such as addressing a child by looking at them or speaking
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We are very excited to announce that some of our researchers will be featuring in a 3-part documentary on BBC2 called “Babies: Their Wonderful World”. The show looks at the science and psychology…
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We know that failure to develop adequate language skills during the early years can have a profound impact on children’s lives. For example, children who have poor language skills at age five tend to…
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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] +…