Good communication skills are essential for learning and making friends, and have wide impacts across a child’s development, which is why The Communication Trust and Pearson have launched the fifth…
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In a new article in Scientific American magazine, Paul Ibbotson (Open University) and LuCiD International Co-Investigator, Mike Tomasello explain why much of Noam Chomsky’s revolution in…

This summer, I worked as a LuCiD intern at the University of Liverpool Language Lab for Amy Bidgood, testing the validity of the Babble Checklist. Babble is seen to be an important stage in language…

During term time, I study for my Psychology degree at Lancaster University, but for 6 weeks during the summer holiday I have had the amazing opportunity to work as a LuCiD intern at the Lancaster…

Over the summer of 2015, I undertook a LuCiD internship working on part of Dr Thea Cameron-Faulkner and Dr Claire Noble’s project ‘A good book? The grammatical properties of shared reading’. This…

Complex sentences are just that; complex! Although that may seem self-evident, nothing hammers home the intricacies and complexities in everyday language quite like studying complex sentences in…