Seminars, News, Events & Blog

Seminars, News, Events & Blog - February 2020

Talking to your baby – is there a ‘right’ way?

Posted by Sam Durrant and Katie Twomey on 28/02/2020 in Blogs

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A simple task like grabbing a pint of milk can take much longer for someone popping to the shops with a young baby. Not only because of the preparation required to leave the house with small children,

Seminar Postponed: Verb Selection as the Heart of Intervention: The Impact on Outcomes and Implications for Implementation

Posted by Admin on 12/02/2020 in Events

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Amanda Owen Van Horne (University of Delaware) will give the next LuCiD seminar from 11-12.30 on Tuesday 31 March at the University of Manchester. She will share her research on Verb Selection as the…

Have you ever wondered how you learned to talk?

Posted by Samantha Durrant on 10/02/2020 in Blogs

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As adults we say around 10,000-15,000 words a day and hear and understand many more. It’s hard to remember a time when we couldn’t understand our native language, or communicate our thoughts and needs

Seminar: Learning Words from Context: Predictions of Context-counting and Context-predicting Models on Vocabulary Acquisition

Posted by Admin on 04/02/2020 in Events

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Dr Raquel Alhama (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) will give a LuCiD seminar at 11-12.30 on Wednesday 12th February at the University of Manchester. She will share her research on