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Quantifying Language Experience in Bilingual and Trilingual children, 2020-2022
The data in this repository were collected in France, the Netherlands and the UK between 2020 and 2022 to inform the validation of the Q-BEx questionnaire (). Children between... -
Children's Communicative Development: Bringing Experimental Pragmatics to the...
For children's wellbeing and educational success, it is essential that they develop their language and communication abilities. The goal of this fellowship was to advance... -
Bilingual Experience and Cognitive Control, 2018-2022
This data collection entails a range of data collected from monolingual and bi/multilingual adult participants living in and around Birmingham, United Kingdom. This includes... -
Revealing the Implications of Reading Strategy for Reading Behaviour and Comp...
Experimental data, effects of reading task on eye movement behaviour during reading. The hypotheses for possible interactions between effects of reading goal and word length are... -
Optimal Categorisation: The Origin and Nature of Gender From a Psycholinguist...
As part of the attempt to understand the linguistic origin and cognitive nature of grammatical gender, we designed six psycholinguistic experiments for our language sample from... -
Cross-Linguistic Evidence for Cognitive Universals in the Noun Phrase, Lingui...
Noun phrase word order varies cross-linguistically, however, two distributional asymmetries have attracted substantial attention. First, the most common orders place adjectives... -
Evidence of Universal Language Structure From Speakers Whose Language Violate...
There is a longstanding debate in cognitive science surrounding the source of commonalities among languages of the world. Indeed, there are many potential explanations for such... -
Experimental Evidence for the Influence of Structure and Meaning on Linear Or...
Recent work has used artificial language experiments to argue that hierarchical representations drive learners’ expectations about word order in complex noun phrases like these... -
Research Mobilities in Primary Literacy Education, 2022-2024
The Research Mobilities in Primary Literacy Education project (2022-2024) investigated the kinds of literacy research that teachers encounter and how literacy research moves to,... -
Effect of Memory Task on Structural Priming, 2017-2022
Participants read aloud either a prepositional object (PO) or double object (DO) prime sentence, followed by a target fragment that they could complete using either a PO or DO... -
Susanne Corpus, 1961
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The purpose of this study was to identify the grammatical properties of a sample of English language. No... -
Age of Acquisition, Frequency, Concreteness and Imageability Ratings for Wels...
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The purpose of this study was to develop a database of Welsh words and their English equivalents giving... -
Dynamic Variability in Speech: a Forensic Phonetic Study of British English, ...
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. This is a qualitative data collection. The aim of the DyViS database is to provide a database of 100... -
Towards dialogue: A linguistic ethnographic study of classroom interaction an...
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... -
A comparative study of language change in Northern Englishes
This 3-year project investigates language change in five urban dialects of Northern England—Derby, Newcastle, York, Leeds and Manchester. The main goal of the project is to... -
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... -
Amazon Mechanical Turk: Sentence annotation experiments
This data collection consists of two .csv files containing lists of sentences with individual and mean sentence ratings (crowd sourced judgements) on three modes of... -
Reaction times in three auditory priming adult experiments
Data from three experiments on the processing of vowels and consonants in listeners of English and French, that support a paper published in the Journal of Memory and Language... -
The Oxford Aesop Corpus 2010
The aim of our project is to systematically test and improve these rhythm measurements to be more reliable, easier, and robust enough to use outside the laboratory. This corpus... -
UK Annual report narrative disclosure scores
In the CFIE project we analysed more than 10,000 annual reports for a variety of factors as described in the explanatory notes. The analysis results in this spreadsheet. For...