Last month I submitted my PhD at the Lancaster University. As part of the LuCiD project, I investigated how infants use communicative signals, such as addressing a child by looking at them or speaking
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We know that failure to develop adequate language skills during the early years can have a profound impact on children’s lives. For example, children who have poor language skills at age five tend to…
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In the English language, speakers often alternate between sentences like (1) and (2) when producing complex sentences¹. 1. [Tom thinks] that (the cake shop is closed today).[Main clause] +…
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Over the summer I spent six weeks on a LuCiD summer internship supervised by Dr Katie Twomey and Dr Alissa Ferry, assisting with research into children’s acquisition of categories at the basic and…
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As another lucky LuCiD travel award recipient, I have had the opportunity to visit two collaborating labs in the UK. In just two short weeks I gained invaluable knowledge in one of the most…
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I have recently spent 4 weeks in the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Brain Sciences in Leipzig, working alongside the research team of Prof Stefanie Hoehl‘s Early Social Cognition Lab (ESCo),…