A lot of research into children’s language development is on English. But English is a peculiar language when you compare it to the languages of the world. Unlike many languages in which the order of…
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We know that babies learn language incredibly fast. One question that LuCiD is trying to answer is how they do it! We often think that to learn language infants have to figure out what words mean…
Last autumn (Oct 2018), I had the great opportunity to spend 3 weeks at the cognitive brain research unit (CBRU), Helsinki University, working with Dr Alina Leminen. This was made possible through a…
In July, I was given an amazing opportunity to visit the new Language Development Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, thanks to a travel award from LuCiD.
On November 14th I attended a ‘Summit’ convened by government to engage the business community, media organisations, academics, charities and others in a national effort to improve the way parents…
Last month I submitted my PhD at the Lancaster University. As part of the LuCiD project, I investigated how infants use communicative signals, such as addressing a child by looking at them or speaking