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The Role of Sensory-Motor and Affective Information in Meaning Representation
This project investigates how humans mentally represent words referring to concrete and abstract entities and events. In particular, we scrutinise a view under which mental... -
Supporting children's school readiness 2015-2018
Language comprehension relies on the ability to make local and global inferences (e.g., inferring what a pronoun refers to, or inferring why a protagonist in a story did... -
The role of automatic letter-speech sound integration in reading development ...
Six data sets are included in this collection: (1)Cross-sectional data for a representative sample of 155 children (aged 5-7 years). Measures include performance on a... -
Vocal Learning in Adulthood: Investigating the mechanisms of vocal imitation ...
This collection contains behavioural and brain activation data from 3 laboratory studies of speech imitation. Each of the three studies involved behavioural and imaging (MRI)... -
Carers' talk to children with language difficulties during shared book readin...
The aim of this research was to explore whether the advantages of shared book reading (the joint attention and high quality adult language input) remain true where children have... -
Promoting language development in young children through shared reading, a ra...
This is a randomised controlled trial of shared book reading with 150 children aged 2;6 to 3;0 which follows CONSORT guidelines. Dyads were randomly allocated to an intervention... -
Shared book reading and the development of phonological awareness 2016-2018
Shared book reading has been demonstrated to be an effective way to promote children’s language including preparation for literacy: children who are read to regularly, on... -
Chilean language and reading alliance 2017-2018
A reading and language intervention programme trialled in an isolated Chilean population. These data are derived from a randomised controlled trial study that evaluated the... -
Transnational Organised Crime and Translation, 2016-2018
During the TOCAT project, we conducted multiple interviews and focus groups with frontline workers involved in police and related investigations across languages. Some of these... -
Nurturing a lexical legacy: understanding the transition from novice-to-exper...
This deposits refers to data from three studies, all conducted to investigate the development of expertise in word reading skill. Study 1 contains two experiments, reported in... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Learned Labe...
Eyetracking data collected from 10-month-old infants, stimuli and analysis scripts. In this study 10-month-old infants were trained over the course of a week with two 3D... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: All the Righ...
Eyetracking data collected from two-year-old infants, stimuli and analysis scripts. In the current study we tested whether background variability could boost word learning in a... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Training Stu...
A central question in language acquisition is how children master sentence types that they have seldom, if ever, heard. Here we report the findings of a preregistered,... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Multiple Cu...
It has long been claimed that the child’s experience of language is not sufficient to enable them to learn language, and so language structure must be innate and internal to the... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Language-gen...
The aim of this large-scale, preregistered, cross-linguistic study was to mediate between theories of the acquisition of inflectional morphology, which lie along a continuum... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Defaulting E...
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... -
The development of lexical flexibility, behavioural data 2016-2019
These are behavioural data from experiments on children's word learning. The experiments typically assessed children from age 2 to age 4 or 5. Specifically, the projects herein... -
A behavioural dataset for studying individual differences in language skills ...
This resource contains data from 112 Dutch adults (18-29 years of age) who completed the Individual Differences in Language Skills test battery that included 33 behavioural... -
COVID-19: Identifying Effective Remote Literacy Teaching Methods for Primary-...
A total of 212 8-12-year old English-educated children took part. 106 children received online one-to-one teaching in two 4-week cycles of live delivery (synchronous) vs.... -
Life Stress, Symptomatology and First Year Examination Performance in Oversea...
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The main aims of this study were to examine a sample of first year overseas undergraduate students at...