Over the summer I completed a LuCiD internship at the Liverpool Language Lab, supervised by Dr Claire Noble and Dr Samantha Durrant. During my time there, I worked on a range of projects but my…
Seminars, News, Events & Blog - September 2017
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Over the summer, I worked as a research intern for Amy Bidgood at the University of Liverpool, gaining valuable experience in the process. My internship focused on an ongoing project investigating the…
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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…
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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
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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.
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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…