“Wheah’s the cah? Did you pahk it in Hahvahd Yahd?” While this pronunciation probably doesn’t raise any eyebrows with our British readers, it is very distinctive to American ears, clearly identifying
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Dr Sam Wass will present the next LuCiD seminar on New meanings of 'thin-skinned': autonomic and neural correlates of biological sensitivity to context. The seminar will take place from 11.00-12.30 on…

Identifying words from continuous speech is difficult, but languages contain several cues that can help us, including the way that syllables appearing at the end of words tend to be longer in duration

Here are LuCiD, we are often asked to recommend good quality research papers on the role that parents have in their children's language development. In our latest evidence briefing, Profs Julian Pine…

As one of the lucky recipients of the LuCiD Travel Award, I was able to spend October at Cornell University, US, working as part of Prof Morten Christiansen’s Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (CNL).

Children learn new words using the same method as robots according to psychologists. This suggests that early learning is based not on conscious thought but on an automatic ability to associate…