Newborn babies are born with the innate skills needed to pick out words from language, a new study published in Developmental Science reveals. Before infants can learn words, they must identify those…
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We are very excited to announce that some of our researchers will be featuring in a 3-part documentary on BBC2 called “Babies: Their Wonderful World”. The show looks at the science and psychology…
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We have added a series of new resources to our website on supporting families with shared reading in the home. This bundle contains a range of helpful materials, including guides for practitioners,…
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Do you work in early years settings in the UK? Help our researchers identify how children’s language and communication development is monitored in different settings throughout their first few years.
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Andrew Jessop, a LuCiD-affiliated PhD student at the University of Liverpool, won a prize for his talk at this year's Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) conference. The talk,
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We are delighted to announce that LuCiD has secured funding for a further five years, to continue our work until 2024. The £6.2 million investment from the ESRC and LuCiD universities will enable us