Samantha Durrant
Researcher
A bit about Samantha Durrant
I currently split my time between two roles, both at the University of Manchester. Half of my time is spent working as a Lecturer in Psychology on the Speech and Language Therapy programme and with the other half of my time I work on a LuCiD project with Dr Katie Twomey as a post-doctoral research associate. My research interests are focused on using a range of methods (naturalistic and experimental) to understand the influence of the environment, both linguistic and nonlinguistic, on language development in young children.
I completed my PhD at the University of Plymouth looking at the impact of linguistic variation on children’s early representations. After earning my PhD I joined LuCiD as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Liverpool and spent 5 years working on the longitudinal Language 0-5 Project with Caroline Rowland. We tracked the development of 90 children from 6 months until they were 4.5 years collecting data on a range of different abilities. I am using the video data from when these children were 11 months old in my current post-doctoral project.
My Role in LuCiD
In LuCiD I am a post-doctoral research associate working on the LuCiD work package linking curiosity-driven behaviour with language development in the research stream beyond 0-5. This project seeks to use naturalistic data from the Language 0-5 Project to explore the relationship between curiosity behaviours, specifically interactions with objects, and language development in 11 month olds.
LuCiD publications (33) by Samantha Durrant
Lee, C., Jessop, A., Bidgood, A., Peter, M., Pine, J., Rowland, C. & Durrant, S. (2023). How executive functioning, sentence processing, and vocabulary are related at 3 years of age Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Byers-Heinlein, K., Tsui, RK-Y., van Renswoude, D., Black, A., Barr, R., Brown, A., Colomer, M., Durrant, S., Gampe, A., Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Hay, J.F., Hernik, M., Jartó, M., Kovács, A.M., ... (2021). Infancy. 26: 4–38.
Durrant, S., Jessop, A., Chang, F., Bidgood, A., Peter, M. S., Pine, J. M. & Rowland, C. F. (2021). Language and Cognition 13, 66–98.
Samanta, S., Bannard, C., Pine, J. & The Language05 Team (2020). In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, ON: Cognitive Science Society.
Frost, R. L. A., Jessop, A., Durrant, S., Peter, M., Bidgood, A. Pine, J., Rowland, C. & Monaghan, P. (2020). Cognitive Psychology, 120, 101291.
Peter, M. S., Durrant, S., Jessop, A., Bidgood, A., Pine, J. M. & Rowland, C. F. (2019). Cognitive Psychology, 115, 101238.
Delle Luche, C., Kwok, R., Durrant, S., Chow, J., Horvath, K., Cattani, A., Abbot-Smith, K., Krott, A., Mills, D., Plunkett, K., Rowland, C., Floccia, C. (2016). International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, USA.
Bidgood, A., Cameron-Faulkner, T., Durrant, S., Peter, M., Rowland, C. (2015). Workshop on Extensive and Intensive Recordings of Children's Language Environment (WEIRCLE), Paris, France.
Bidgood, A., Cameron-Faulkner, T., Peter, M., Durrant, S., Rowland, C. (2016). International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, USA.
Durrant, S., Delle Luche, C., Cattani, A., Floccia, C. (2015). Journal of Child Language, 42(2), 447-465.
Delle Luche, C., Durrant, S., Floccia, C., Plunkett, K. (2014). Developmental Science, 17(6), 948-955.
Bidgood, A., McLaughlin, P., Durrant, S., Peter, M., Pine, J., & Rowland, C. (2018). Paper presented at the Child Language Symposium, Reading, UK.
Durrant, S., Delle Luche, C., Chow, J., Plunkett, K., & Floccia, C. (2017). Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development. Texas, USA.
Durrant, S., Delle Luche, C., Ratnage, P., & Floccia, C. (2017). Paper presented at the 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Lyon, France.
Peter, M., Bidgood, A., Durrant, S., Pine, J., Rowland, C. (2018). Paper presented at Child Language Symposium, Reading, UK.
Frost, R., Rowland, C., Durrant, S., Peter, M., Bidgood, A., Monaghan, P. (2018). Paper presented at 26th Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, Germany.
Frost, R., Peter, M., Durrant, S., Bidgood, A., Rowland, C., Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M. (2016). Poster presented at Fifth Implicit Learning Seminar Lancaster, UK.
Delle Luche, C., Kwok, R., Durrant, S., Chow, J., Plunkett, K., & Floccia, C. (2017). Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Lyon, France.
Keren-Portnoy, T., Floccia, C., DePaolis, R., Duffy, H., Delle Luche, C., Durrant, S., White, L., Goslin, J., & Vihman, M. (2017). Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Lyon, France.
Durrant, S., Peter, M., Bidgood, A., McLaughlin, P., & Rowland, C. (2017). Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Lyon, France.
Durrant, S., Peter, M., Bidgood, A., Monaghan, P., Frost, R., Bannard, C., Kidd, E., & Rowland, C. (2017). Paper presented at the European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Utrecht, Holland.
Delle Luche, C., Durrant, S., Ratnage, P., & Floccia, C. (2017). Paper presented at the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Potsdam, Germany.
Durrant, S. (2017). First Language, 37(5), 530–532.
Durrant, S., Rowland, C. F. , Chang, F., Jessop, A., Bidgood, A., Peter, M. (2016). Paper presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Bidgood, A., Cameron-Faulkner, T., Durrant, S., Peter, M. & Rowland, C.F. (2016). Paper presented at the 1st Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, Lancaster, UK.
Bidgood, A., Kirk, E., Durrant, S., Peter, M., Pine, J. & Rowland, C. (2018). Poster presented at The 3rd Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development (LCICD), Lancaster, UK.
Bidgood, A., Kirk, E., Durrant, S., Peter, M., Pine, J. & Rowland, C. (2018). Poster presented at the 8th International Society for Gesture Studies Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
Abbot-Smith, K., Imai, M., Durrant, S., & Nurmsoo, E. (2016). First Language. doi:10.1177/0142723716679800
Floccia, C., Keren-Portnoy, T., DePaolis, R., Duffy, H., Delle Luche, C., Durrant, S., White, L., Goslin, J., & Vihman, M. (2016). British English infants segment words only with exaggerated infant-directed speech stimuli. Cognition, 148, 1-9
Delle Luche, C., Durrant, S., Poltrock, S., Floccia, C. (2015). A methodological investigation of the Intermodal Preferential Looking paradigm: Methods of analyses, picture selection and data rejection criteria. Infant Behaviour and Development, 40, 151-72
Frost, R. L. A., Peter, M., Durrant, S., Bidgood, A., Rowland, C., Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M. H. (2016). How do infants use nonadjacent dependencies during language development? Poster presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Frost, R. L. A., Peter, M., Durrant, S., Bidgood, A., Rowland, C., Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M. H. (2016). How do infants use nonadjacent dependencies during language acquisition? Poster to be presented at the Fifth Implicit Learning Seminar. Lancaster, UK.
Serratrice, L. & Durrant, S. (2015). Confused? Nursery World Magazine, 21 September, 22-24.