After finishing my PhD in the United States, I moved to Italy to do research studying infant language acquisition. This meant that I had to learn some Italian! One of the first things we learned in…
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Dr Alissa Ferry
Alissa is a Lecturer in Language and Communicative Development at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on the early language acquisition, with a focus on investigating what infants know about language from birth through the first year of life. She is particularly interested in how infants learn words and find patterns in language.
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As many parents know, babies start saying their first words somewhere around their first birthday. But there is a lot going on in their brains before that as they start to make sense of the language…