My friends don’t really understand what I do in my job. I study how children learn language. Half my friends believe that I spend all day attaching electrodes to people’s heads to study their brains.
Seminars, News, Events & Blog - February 2017

Dr Kirsten Abbot-Smith present the next LuCiD seminar on Learning to perspective-take in conversation. The seminar will take place from 11.00-12.30 on Tuesday 7th March at the University of Liverpool…

Over the years, I have spent stints of time in remote parts of the world, studying how children learn language. Watching the ways in which babies and young children were looked after and learned to…