207 datasets found

This project aims to identify genres of assessed writing at university level, and to investigate textual variation across disciplines and years of study in the context of...

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...

There is currently a significant divide in researchers views on language acquisition. Linguists have often posited that a strong innately born knowledge of language structure is...

How well children will learn to read is determined in part by their phonological awareness. Phonological awareness refers to the child’s awareness of the sound structure of...

British speakers are thought to vary their pitch range more (their voice goes more up and down) than German speakers do, but this has never been systematically compared. The...

Recent years have seen significant advancement in our understanding of the mental processes involved in reading. However, serious controversies remain. One of the most...

Individuals with Down syndrome have particular difficulties in language acquisition, and also show relatively poor verbal short-term memory skills. These deficits may be...

As an extension of the ESRC project Contrasting aspect and tense in English and Chinese (RES-000-22-0135), this project will be comparing and contrasting aspect-related...

The goal of this research project is to improve our understanding of the perceptual and cognitive factors contributing to the segmentation of fluent speech. Speech-segmentation...

The threat to human and animal health posed by a rise in infectious diseases, a decrease in antimicrobial resistance and the risk of zoonoses (diseases transmitted continuously...

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...