We know that babies begin actively exploring their world from the very beginning – or even from before birth, as recent research from LuCiD colleagues has demonstrated (1). We also know that the…
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Perhaps the busiest and most tiring time of the academic calendar is conference season. Double-checking results, writing (hopefully) compelling talks and struggling against Power Point’s terrible…
I visited my two-year-old niece over the Easter weekend. Before I’d had a chance to take my coat off, she came running over to me with her Oh No, George book under her arm, and asked me to read it…
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…
As many parents know, babies start saying their first words somewhere around their first birthday. But there is a lot going on in their brains before that as they start to make sense of the language…
In LuCiD, we work as researchers on a project examining cross-linguistic language learning. We investigate how children acquire verb and noun inflection in morphologically complex languages.…