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…
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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…
Picture this: a child is learning how to play with an exciting new toy with lots of possible actions to perform (think Bop It). They’re playing with two adults, who each teach them how to perform a…
A simple task like grabbing a pint of milk can take much longer for someone popping to the shops with a young baby. Not only because of the preparation required to leave the house with small children,
As adults we say around 10,000-15,000 words a day and hear and understand many more. It’s hard to remember a time when we couldn’t understand our native language, or communicate our thoughts and needs