60 datasets found

This paper describes an extension to the MOSAIC model which aims to increase MOSAIC’s fit to the cross-linguistic occurrence of Optional Infinitive (OI) errors. While previous...

We examine the success of developmental distributional analysis in English, German and Dutch. We embed the mechanism for distributional analysis within an existing model of...

When listening to relative clauses (RC) children show anticipation for a subject (SRC) rather than object relative clause (ORC). Research has suggested that changes to discourse...

We investigated the influence of animacy on online processing of semantically reversible SRCs and ORCs using lexically inanimate items that were perceptually animate due to...

The project aimed to follow up participants of the Manchester Language Study (MLS) when they were in their final year of primary education (Year 6). Participants were on...

The project aimed to follow up participants of the Manchester Language Study (MLS) when they were in their final year of secondary education (Year 11) and compare their outcomes...

Infants’ preference for faces with direct compared to averted eye gaze, and for infant-directed over adult-directed speech, reflects early sensitivity to social communication....

In adults, words are more effective than sounds at activating conceptual representations. We aimed to replicate these findings and extend them to infants. In a series of...

This archive contains a unique collection of naturalistic child language data collected between 2017 and 2020 in Southern Senegal. The deposit contains ELAN files of annotated...

Learning is often accompanied by a subjective sense of confidence in one's knowledge, a feeling of knowing what you know and how well you know it. Subjective confidence has been...

There has been little investigation of the way source monitoring, the ability to track the source of one’s knowledge, may be involved in lexical acquisition. In two experiments,...

We analysed both structural and functional aspects of sentences containing the four adverbials “after”, “before”, “because”, and “if” in two dense corpora of parent-child...

This repository contains data and information relating to a longitudinal project which investigated infants’ processing of causal events and its relationship with language...

To examine whether children’s acquisition of perspective-marking language supports development in their ability to reason about mental states, we conducted a longitudinal study...

This training study was conducted to investigate whether children’s understanding of false belief can be improved by exposing them to (1) first-person complements (e.g. “I said...

The Language 0-5 project was a multi-methodological longitudinal cohort study that tracked the language development of 90 English-learning children from 6 months to 4;6 years....

How preverbal infants perceive and process events can provide important insights into the conceptual foundations of language development. To establish mappings between event...

This research demonstrated that although new memories for individual items can be acquired rapidly, the process of discovering regularities across individual items to permit...

Data and analysis from two studies investigating the role of onomatopoeia in children's vocabulary development. The corpus study uses data from the Language Development Corpus...

This large-scale survey of Family Language Policy (FLP) looks into what types of FLP exist in private domains in the current UK society and how mobility and on-going changes in...