We all know that babies are wrigglers! Their motor skills develop rapidly, from the early arm-waving and leg-kicking researchers call “motor babbling”, to reaching, pointing, and picking up and…
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Dr Katie Twomey
Dr Katie (Katherine) Twomey is a Lecturer at the University of Manchester. She uses empirical and computational methods to examine the foundations of language acquisition.
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Young children learn words amazingly quickly. Even 6-month-old babies show signs of word recognition1, and by around two years old toddlers can work out what a new word means for themselves, without…
We know that babies begin actively exploring their world from the very beginning – or even from before birth, as recent research from LuCiD colleagues has demonstrated (1). We also know that the…
Anyone who’s spent time with a young child knows that they pick up words very quickly! But it’s less well-known that learning a word for something fundamentally changes the way children interact with…
The world is an incredibly complicated place when it comes to learning your first words. Imagine a toddler playing with a toy duck, a toy rabbit, and a brand new, orange toy with a very long neck. The
How children learn verbs is one of the trickiest conundrums facing researchers in language acquisition. Nouns are easy: it’s not surprising that the first object names babies learn are for the objects