Our conversational interactions with children are hugely beneficial to their development. Children often repeat the words and sentence structures that they hear adults use with them, and this helps…
Dr Leone Buckle
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Dr Leone Buckle
Leone is a lecturer in Language and Communicative Development at University of Manchester. Most of her work explores how children learn grammar through direct experiences of hearing adults use language across various contexts. However, she is also interested in how children might learn to produce and interpret sentences based on their experiences of real-life events involving animate (e.g. humans) and inanimate entities (e.g. toys).