Our 2016/17 Seminar Series Programme is now available. Seminars take place the first Tuesday of each month (except January where it is the second Tuesday), from November 2016 to June 2017. The first…
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A draft programme for the 2nd LuCiD Language and Communicative Development Conference is now available. The conference will take place on Wednesday 21st and Thursday 22nd September at Manchester…
LuCiD’s latest 2-page evidence briefing summarises the evidence for the role of shared book-reading in children’s language development in the early years (0-5 years). The briefing, put together by…
The Canberra Longitudinal Child Language Project, a sister project to LuCiD's Language 0-5, follows just over 100 children from the age of 9 months until they are 5 years. The project has many
In May 2016 I attended the 20th Biennial meeting of the International Congress on Infant Studies in New Orleans alongside 22 of my peers from the Lancaster University BabyLab. For me, as a young…
Language is complex and rich, and the ability to acquire it is nothing short of remarkable. In an attempt to help explain how learners manage to do so, researchers have looked to the speech we hear,…