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- Can watching TV actually be good for toddlers?
- Understanding how children’s curiosity drives their learning
- Investigating the Goldilocks effect in infant visual exploration
- What's in a name? Diagnostic labels matter
- Language learning by numbers
- The dog that didn’t bark: Uncovering the hidden grammatical impairment in Autism Spectrum Disorder
- From signing to 'sensory': can trendy baby classes really boost a child's development?
- Measuring a very young child’s language and communication skills in developing countries
- LuCiD goes down under to learn about child's play!
- Ewww! How does emotion during labelling affect children’s word learning?
- Sifting the fact from fiction about baby sign language
- More than meets the eye: how children can learn verbs from what they hear, not what they see.
- Toddler robots help solve the language puzzle
- It's not just what you said, but how you said it: Natural language cues assist language processing
- International Congress on Infant Studies (ICIS) 2016: My Experience
- The Canberra Longitudinal Child Language Project: What's new with our colleagues down under
- My first foray into child language research: A Nuffield Placement Student's Blog
- Internship report: A good book? The grammatical properties of shared reading
- Internship report: The acquisition of complex syntax
- Internship report: Investigating how infants use high frequency words at the Lancaster Babylab
- Internship Report: Testing the validity of the Babble Checklist
- Learning words affects how babies see objects
- Blog: 2nd LuCiD Language and Communicative Development Conference
- Blog: Reading development workshop, Tianjin Normal University, China
- Blog: Art Baby - Music Baby - Language Baby
- Blog: Research visit to the Cornell Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
- My 6 weeks at Harvard
- Other Cultures, Other Languages: Learning to talk around the world
- How to study language: Electrodes are not the only answer
- From a beach in Poland to a frozen lake in Finland: Testing grammar learning in different languages is no holiday!
- How to Study Language: Why Do We Put Electrodes on People’s Heads?
- Born Talking
- Encouraging parents to enjoy reading with their children: Findings from The Reader’s ‘Shared Reading’ programme
- Language shapes how babies see the world
- Blog: The 3rd LuCiD Language and Communicative Development Conference
- Research visit to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig
- Nuffield internship: How the sequence of events in a sentence affects people's understanding
- LuCiD in Estonia
- Communicating before speech: Infant’s ‘hold out’ gestures reflect instances of early, intentional communication.
- Internship report: ManyBabies infant-directed speech project
- Studying input effects in child language acquisition? It’s Hip To Be (Chi) Square
- Kia Ora, Dunedin: My research visit to the University of Otago
- Internship report: Investigating the link between infant vocabulary development and symbolic play
- All the right noises
- Internship blog: The Many Babies Project, Liverpool
- Internship blog: Complex sentences in early child language
- Understanding children’s scale errors
- How to choose and evaluate interventions for promoting language skills
- Understanding how children learn language: What progress has been made since 1965?
- Primary foreign languages – an opportunity for children learning English as an Additional Language (EAL) to excel?
- Insights from Using Evidence on the Ground with The Communication Trust
- Real languages in the hand: myths and facts about sign languages
- Han Ke: My Research Visit to the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Brain Sciences in Leipzig
- Complex sentences, modal verbs, and EAL pupils’ experiences of learning MFL
- Learning brand new ways to study infant social development – A mini lab tour
- The influence of child-directed speech on children’s acquisition of category labels
- Thinking out loud: How children talk about others' thoughts
- Supporting language learning in the preschool years: the campaign at the heart of the BBC’s new Education Strategy
- How infants use communicative signals
- Research and policy – across the great divide
- Learning about cutting edge research at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- Learning about magnetoencephalography at the University of Helsinki
- Newborns use multiple cues to separate the words in speech
- Thank You to all the Language 0-5 families
- Children use analogy rather than rules when learning language
- How should you talk to your baby?
- Look here! How do babies know where we’re looking?
- Learning about dual head-mounted eyetracking at Indiana University
- The impact of parental mind-mindedness and contingent responding on children’s later vocabulary
- Investigating the link between category structure and Autism
- Artificial Language Learning at the UCL Language Learning Lab
- Cross-linguistic study of children's language, source monitoring and perspective taking
- Comparing how French- and English-learning babies learn their language
- Does speed of processing or vocabulary size predict later language growth in toddlers?
- Language intervention for children with Down syndrome
- Story Starters Update: Evaluating a volunteer-led shared book reading intervention
- Cat or Cats? Italian-learning infants understand singular/plural rules sooner than English-learning infants
- A Short Research Visit to the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
- Why is Language Unlimited? David Adger’s book’s take on possessive ‘s
- Have you ever wondered how you learned to talk?
- Talking to your baby – is there a ‘right’ way?
- “Let me teach you what I know”– How do toddlers decide what to teach to others?
- International lab visits in the time of Covid 19
- "It is not easy, nor simple nor cheap to improve children’s early language skills"
- What’s next? – Guessing upcoming words may be key to how children learn language
- Solving the language puzzle: How we learn words and sentences at the same time
- Languages in lockdown: Time to think about multilingualism
- Can late talkers use words to help scaffold their understanding of how pictures and objects relate to one another?
- Curiosity-Based Learning: Project Update
- Retrieval-based word learning in children with Developmental Language Disorder: Implications for practice
- Capture Curiosity from the Cradle
- How has lockdown affected children’s language development?
- How children and adults understand pronouns.
- Children’s early movement and language skills – what’s the link?
- Internship report: An unconventional internship with Dr Kelly Burgoyne
- A meta-analysis of infant speed of processing and vocabulary development
- Supporting daily reading for the reluctant reader
- Evidence-based tips for boosting your child’s language development
- Three lessons on how we should teach reading
- Why verb endings are harder to learn in English than in Spanish
- How Preschool Teachers Speak to Children with Different Language Backgrounds
- The impact of perceived emotions on toddlers' word learning
- Investigating sentence processing, object categorisation and attending an international conference
- How do children comprehend and produce complex sentences?
- My LCICD conference experience
- What types of information children prefer to pass onto others
- My Six-week Experience Researching the Impact of Retrieval on Word Learning
- What is children’s home language learning environment?
- Baby's got rhythm: How the developing brain prepares for language
- Connecting Infant Curiosity and Language Development at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
- Now you see me, now you don’t! Can children learn language during online interactions?
- Our pronoun project is hotter than a Texas summer.
- Why computational linguistics can lasso new insights into how humans understand pronouns.
- What role does language play on taking others’ perspectives?
- The sound of silence
- Events
- Building Realistic Models of Language Development
- Catch us at the UK Baby and Toddler Show in February!
- Meet LuCiD researchers at Campus in the City, 10-11 April
- LuCiD Seminar Series
- Learning Grammar from Sound and Meaning -14 April
- LuCiD Launch Event 19 Feb 2015
- Tony McEnery Seminar: Collocations in context. Tuesday 5th May
- Online Course: How do children learn language?
- SLT Workshop: Methods for informally assessing children’s language
- Sleep and time-dependent learning in infants and young children
- Children's early language development webinar, 15 July
- Evan Kidd Seminar: Role of frequency in syntax acquisition and processing
- Free family fun day at the Manchester Museum, 7-8 November
- Trials and Tribulations: Applying Research to Practice
- LuCiD Seminar: Popular Science Writing for the Sceptical
- Understanding word learning difficulties in autism: insights from sibling studies
- Free webinar: How children learn words and how we can support the early stages of language acquisition
- Join LuCiD Lancaster for Campus in the City, 4-6 May
- Liverpool meets the scientists at The World Museum
- Seminar: Children’s reasoning with peers
- LuCiD Seminar Series Programme 2016/17 now published
- 2nd LuCiD Language and Communicative Development Conference, 21-22 September 2016
- Day Course: How do children learn language?
- LuCiD Seminar: Learning the rules - the acquisition of morphological regularities in language
- Webinar: Communication Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: iPads and Pictures
- Language Baby at the Whitworth: Find out more about babies' early communication
- The Art of Conversation: Stockport Early Years Improvement Team Conference
- LuCiD Seminar: Trials of early intervention in autism
- Seminar: New meanings of 'thin-skinned': autonomic and neural correlates of biological sensitivity to context
- Seminar: Child language as a life chances indicator
- LuCiD Seminar: Learning to perspective take in conversation
- LuCiD at Nursery World Show North, 5 May
- LuCiD to give keynote at Talk to Your Baby 2017, 13th March
- Language baby returns to the Whitworth
- LuCiD Seminar: Exploring word learning difficulties in minimally-verbal children with autism spectrum disorder
- Baby Research put in Practice with Baby Sensory Lancaster at the Lancaster Community Open Day
- LuCiD Seminar: Experimental studies of language learning in children
- LuCiD Seminar: Assessing babies and young children at risk of communication disorders
- 3rd LuCiD Language and Communicative Development Conference, 6-7 July 2017
- Introducing A Level students to child language acquisition research
- Seminar: Language acquisition in typologically different languages
- New insights into curiosity-driven learning
- Seminar: Socioeconomic disparities in early language development
- (How) Can Infants Learn Words From Statistics?
- Seminar: Investigating the effectiveness of SLT interventions in a special school for children and adolescents with severe language disorders
- Seminar: Bootstrapping language acquisition
- Seminar: The role of shared book reading in language development
- Meet our scientists at the Walker Art Gallery on Saturday
- LuCiD's 4th Language and Communicative Development Conference
- 2018/19 seminar series schedule now published
- Seminar: Expectation-driven language learning
- Seminar: In(put) and out(put) of syntactic acquisition
- Little Chatterboxes at the Manchester Central Library
- Seminar: The role of register-specific words in early lexical development
- Seminar: Vocabulary and comprehension: a two-way street
- Seminar: Experience-dependent brain development as a way to understand systematicity in morphology acquisition
- Seminar: Developmental Robotics for Language Learning, Trust and Theory of Mind
- Seminar: Shedding light on infant brain and cognitive development in Africa: the BRIGHT Project
- Seminar: The role of input, intake and learning biases in the acquisition of (morpho-) syntax
- Seminar: How children learn to use language for social communication
- LuCiD's 5th International Language and Communicative Development Conference, 12-13 June 2019
- LuCiD's 5th Annual International Language and Communicative Development Conference, 12-13 June 2019 (1)
- Seminar: Developing language provision across groups of schools - how might we make a difference?
- Seminar- Risk Factors for Poor Reading: Implications for the Relationship Between Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder
- Seminar: Learning Words from Context: Predictions of Context-counting and Context-predicting Models on Vocabulary Acquisition
- Seminar Postponed: Verb Selection as the Heart of Intervention: The Impact on Outcomes and Implications for Implementation
- Free advice sessions to support teaching children with Down syndrome at home
- FREE Early Years Summit on Speech, Language and Communication
- Muso Baby Virtual - Online Parent and Baby Sessions
- Seminar: Virtual bargaining: The hidden logic of joint action and communication
- LuCiD Seminar: Acquisition across languages and cultures
- Online Seminar: Stability and change in developmental language disorder
- University of Manchester to host next Child Language Symposium in 2023
- Online seminar: Retrieval-Based Word Learning in Children with Developmental Language Disorder
- Seminar: Noise and Development: Infant Attention in the Middle of Everything
- Children Learning Adjectives: Free research workshop and practitioner CPD
- Baby and Child Research Centre Science Slam, online 20 February, 7pm
- Online seminar: How does short-term syntactic priming lead to long-term language learning?
- Online seminar: Interventions to improve children’s early language skills
- Online Seminar: How High Quality Language Create High Quality Learning Environments
- Online Seminar: Principles of Embodied Language Learning: Active Infants in Structured Physical, Social, and Cultural Environments
- Abralin online lectures: How to Build a Language Acquisition Device
- Online Seminar: (A)typical trajectories of complex sentence comprehension from pre-school-age to adolescence
- Online Seminar: Curiosity-driven learning in early childhood
- Online Seminar: Exploring the role of information structure in understanding pronouns
- Online Seminar: The role of prediction in language development
- Online Seminar: Learning words from overheard language input
- Online Seminar: Cross-cultural differences in the relationship between language and Theory of Mind development
- LuCiD Seminar - Language Acquisition: A Temporal Sampling Perspective
- Online Seminar: Modeling children's early language learning by building cross-linguistic data resources
- LuCiD Seminar - Under control: exploring the role of visual attention control in early language acquisition
- LuCiD Seminar - UG approaches to language development: How have they responded to challenges from the usage-based approach?
- Online Seminar: Learning to read
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