Every year, governments, charities and local authorities spend millions of pounds on training, or exhorting, teachers and parents to talk to children. Even President Obama has got in on the act.
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One of the most important milestones for babies is the ability to engage in joint attention – the shared focus of two individuals on an object. However, it is unclear how babies develop this skill. An…
The Language 0-5 Project is almost at an end, and it is incredible how quickly the time has flown! Launched in 2014, we took on the ambitious task of following the language journeys of 80 children…
A lot of research into children’s language development is on English. But English is a peculiar language when you compare it to the languages of the world. Unlike many languages in which the order of…
We know that babies learn language incredibly fast. One question that LuCiD is trying to answer is how they do it! We often think that to learn language infants have to figure out what words mean…
Last autumn (Oct 2018), I had the great opportunity to spend 3 weeks at the cognitive brain research unit (CBRU), Helsinki University, working with Dr Alina Leminen. This was made possible through a…