On November 14th I attended a ‘Summit’ convened by government to engage the business community, media organisations, academics, charities and others in a national effort to improve the way parents…
Seminars, News, Events & Blog
Dr Mits Ota (University of Edinburgh) will give the next LuCiD seminar on the role of register-specific words in early lexical development. The seminar will take place from 11-12.30 on Tuesday 4th…
Last month I submitted my PhD at the Lancaster University. As part of the LuCiD project, I investigated how infants use communicative signals, such as addressing a child by looking at them or speaking
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…
We know that failure to develop adequate language skills during the early years can have a profound impact on children’s lives. For example, children who have poor language skills at age five tend to…
In the English language, speakers often alternate between sentences like (1) and (2) when producing complex sentences¹. 1. [Tom thinks] that (the cake shop is closed today).[Main clause] +…