60 datasets found

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) study is a large-scale longitudinal social survey which follows the...

DCAL is the largest deafness and sign language research centre in Europe, bringing together leading Deaf and hearing researchers in the fields of sign linguistics, psychology,...

This project had two aims: to establish a small scale, high quality database of spoken learner Spanish, and to undertake a short programme of substantive research into L2...

This data collection contains data from three experiments looking at word learning in toddlers aged 16 to 23 months, supporting a published paper (Floccia et al. 2014). Each...

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. Sure Start represents a unique approach to early intervention for children 0-4, their families, and...

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...

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

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

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....

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...

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...

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

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,...

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...

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...

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....

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...