LuCiD Director, Prof Elena Lieven, has been elected to the British Academy in recognition of her achievements in child language development research. Elena joins a community of over 1400 of the…
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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our colleague and friend, Prof Jeffrey Elman, who died suddenly on Thursday 28th June. He was 70. Jeff, Distinguished Professor of Cognitive…

I have recently spent 4 weeks in the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Brain Sciences in Leipzig, working alongside the research team of Prof Stefanie Hoehl‘s Early Social Cognition Lab (ESCo),…

This summer, I spent six weeks working as a LuCiD intern supervised by Heather Lemen, Kimberley Bell, and Katy Finch – all of whom are PhD students at the University of Manchester. Throughout my…

Our 4th Language and Communicative Development conference will be held in Liverpool on Monday 9th - Tuesday 10th July. Prof Morten H Christiansen will give a keynote on Language acquisition as skill…

Come along to our free family fun day at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool on Saturday 16th June and discover more about the science behind the way we learn to communicate with language. Join child…