Young children learn words amazingly quickly. Even 6-month-old babies show signs of word recognition1, and by around two years old toddlers can work out what a new word means for themselves, without…
Seminars, News, Events & Blog
Prof Sabine Stoll (University of Zurich) will give the first LuCiD seminar of 2017/18 on language acquisition in typologically different languages. The seminar will take place at 11am on Tuesday 3 Oct
Watching television or playing with smart phone apps does not have any effect on children’s language development – providing they still spend time reading, researchers have found.
We (that’s Tomoko Tatsumi, me and Julian Pine) have just published a new paper, and I think everyone who does child language research should read it (or, at least, this summary of it). No surprise…
I was fortunate enough to have just spent the last four weeks working with Professor Elaine Reese at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, all thanks to a LuCiD travel grant. One of the…
I have just completed a LuCiD summer internship at the Lancaster University Babylab, supervised by Dr Katie Twomey, Dr Katie Alcock, and Dr Rebecca Frost. During my 6-week summer internship, I took…