“No dad,” sighed my five year old last night with weary impatience at having to explain such trivial things to her parent, “that’s a trigraph in ‘high’.” Our daughter is now clearly initiated into her
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Prof Padraic Monaghan
Padraic is Professor of Cognition at Lancaster University and one of our co-investigators. His research interests include language acquisition, language evolution, literacy development, and the effects of sleep on learning and memory.
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This has not been a normal year. In England, three national lockdowns profoundly affected the usual schedules of children and their families, meaning children were not able to attend preschool or…
Prof. Padraic Monaghan from Lancaster University, Psychology Department spoke about how children's language development has been affected by lockdown. Listen to the interview on BBC Radio…
Pre-school language development has a profound impact on life outcomes. We also know that the gap between children with poorer and better language skills when they arrive at school persists throughout