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Linguistic development in L2 Spanish: Creation and analysis of a learner corpus
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... -
British infants' use of vowels and consonants in word learning tasks
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... -
DCAL Research Data Archive 2006-2016
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,... -
Infant-directed speech and language development
This dataset consists of audio-recordings of naturalistic speech addressed to infants as well as their inventory of words when they were 9, 15 and 21 months of age. All infants... -
How parents can help babies learn to talk with picture books 2016-2018
Children from disadvantaged families tend to have limited language skills compared to their advantaged peers. While many factors contribute to language ability, two aspects of... -
Evaluating the effectiveness of a shared book reading intervention, a randomi...
In a pre-registered cluster randomised controlled trial, 85 lower SES families and their 3- to 4-year old children from 10 different preschools were randomly allocated to take... -
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... -
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... -
Reconceptualising how children with autism learn words 2016-2018
Data from a series of experimental studies conducted in 2017-2018 investigating how children with autism spectrum disorder and typical development learn words. Children... -
Evidence for systematicity in infant and toddler curiosity-driven learning 20...
The study is an eyetracking experiment run with 12- and 28-month old children and adults. Participants from each age group were randomly assigned to a label or no-label... -
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... -
The UK communicative development inventory database: words and gestures ages ...
We piloted a version based on data from various Babylabs, selecting words for which comprehension significantly increased with age over this range, thus eliminating several... -
The Manchester Language Study initial cohort: Seven-year-old data for childre...
The project aimed to a) determine the psycholinguistic profiles of children attending language units in England, b) investigate their social-emotional well-being and c) gather... -
Growth in grammar corpus 2015-2019
The Growth in Grammar Corpus is a collection of texts written by children at schools in England as part of their regular school work. Texts were mainly sampled from children in... -
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Input and In...
Many Western industrialized nations have high levels of ethnic diversity but to date there are very few studies which investigate prelinguistic and early language development 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: Beyond Words...
Eyetracking data collected from 10-month-old infants, stimuli. In the current study, parents read their infants a storybook containing multiple exemplars from two novel object... -
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...