We all know that babies are wrigglers! Their motor skills develop rapidly, from the early arm-waving and leg-kicking researchers call “motor babbling”, to reaching, pointing, and picking up and…
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Have you ever caught yourself saying long burbly streams of words to babies? You are not alone. A lot of what infants hear is “who’s a lovely baby yes you are now where’s teddy gone oh look here is…
The ongoing pandemic has changed everybody’s lives in ways we could not have imagined. In March this year many of us started working from home and children stopped going to school bringing a whole new
People are pretty good at predicting what their conversation partners are about to say next. For instance, if someone says, “I’ll have my tea with milk and …” we can usually guess that the next word…
This week we published the latest in a series of articles on shared reading in the early years, funded by the ESRC. For me, this work illustrates a crucial point: it is not easy, nor simple nor cheap…
My PhD has brought with it many exciting new experiences, but I never expected to find myself standing in Duke University in North Carolina, about to start an academic presentation, and instead having…