Last week, I attended the final seminar in the Born Talking series. These events have been funded by the ESRC to bring together researchers, practitioners and policy-makers interested in using birth…
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Amy Bidgood
Amy is a LuCiD Research Associate at the University of Liverpool. She works on the Language 0-5 Project, a longitudinal study investigating individual differences in the language development of 80 children from the age of 6 months to four and a half years. She focuses on the naturalistic data aspects of the project, looking at children's prelinguistic gesture use and their symbolic play abilities, amongst other things.
Previously, she worked on children's syntax development and on phonological development.
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Amy Bidgood was awarded a LuCiD travel grant to visit the ANU Language Lab in Canberra and work with experts conducting research on children's play. She describes her experiences in this blog.
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