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] +…
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,…
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…
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.
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…