On 21st-22nd September the second LuCiD Language and Communicative Development Conference was held at the Manchester Museum and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought that the conference provided a great…
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Anyone who’s spent time with a young child knows that they pick up words very quickly! But it’s less well-known that learning a word for something fundamentally changes the way children interact with…
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This summer, I worked as a LuCiD intern at the University of Liverpool Language Lab for Amy Bidgood, testing the validity of the Babble Checklist. Babble is seen to be an important stage in language…
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During term time, I study for my Psychology degree at Lancaster University, but for 6 weeks during the summer holiday I have had the amazing opportunity to work as a LuCiD intern at the Lancaster…
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Over the summer of 2015, I undertook a LuCiD internship working on part of Dr Thea Cameron-Faulkner and Dr Claire Noble’s project ‘A good book? The grammatical properties of shared reading’. This…
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Complex sentences are just that; complex! Although that may seem self-evident, nothing hammers home the intricacies and complexities in everyday language quite like studying complex sentences in…