233 datasets found

A central goal for work on human language processing is to spell out the characteristics of the transitory mental operations that enable people to make sense of sentences and...

This research will extend our earlier ESRC longitudinal study examining relations between parenting and 3-to-5 year-olds' social understanding (SU) and language (R00023701)....

This project focuses on spoken language production in healthy adult speakers and addresses whether semantic codes involved in speaking are 'static' (ie fixed and independent of...

Film and Television industries tend to cluster in a very small number of places around the world, moreover, they appear to be rooted to these places. These locales tend to be...

One of the difficulties in learning to read English is that the relationship between spelling and sound is not always consistent (eg 'ck' is always pronounced as in tick, but...

There is a large body of evidence showing that a child's speech processing skills are vitally important for language and literacy development. Difficulties in speech processing...

One of the major tasks facing cognitive psychologists is to understand how humans recognise words. Models of word recognition are influenced heavily by experimental research,...

This qualitative research project sets out to examine the real nature of digital literacies for today's undergraduates. These students are often referred to as 'digital...

Coarticulation, one of the central issues in experimental phonetic research, refers to the articulatory overlap of neighbouring sounds, resulting in acoustic and perceptual...

When children first begin learning to read, they use their knowledge of letter sounds to 'sound out' words. This provides children with a means to assign a pronunciation to...

This project produced grammatical resources for Indonesian, to guide development of computer-implemented grammars and to establish a standard by which grammar coverage can be...

How do children develop the basic knowledge and skills needed to begin to learn to talk? We know little about the ongoing relationship between emergent abilities to perceive...

The project aims to cover new data investigating the acquisition of Tense and Aspect by English learners of Spanish. The aim is to analyse both oral production and...

Handwriting is an important skill in literate societies. This project investigates two intricately related theoretical issues, namely the extent to which handwriting is...

This project involved an investigation of executive functioning (EF) abilities in children with specific language impairment (SLI). SLI is a common neurodevelopmental disorder...

Our research is concerned with the underlying causes of reading difficulty. There is good evidence that some cases of reading difficulty (termed dyslexia) are caused by...

This research will take place in Zanzibar, where children are expected to show how well they have learned school subjects through formal examinations in English. In Zanzibar, on...

Every week thousands of parents in the UK join BabySign classes in the belief that it will help their infant's development. Our research team has been conducting the first...

Dialogue has been shown to be an effective means for the development of pupil learning, critical thinking and reading comprehension. But although recent policies have promoted...

The most natural and basic form of language use is dialogue, in which two or more interlocutors are engaged in both production and comprehension. But psycholinguistics focuses...