233 datasets found

This project produced grammatical resources for Indonesian, to guide development of computer-implemented grammars and to establish a standard by which grammar coverage can be...

How do children develop the basic knowledge and skills needed to begin to learn to talk? We know little about the ongoing relationship between emergent abilities to perceive...

The project aims to cover new data investigating the acquisition of Tense and Aspect by English learners of Spanish. The aim is to analyse both oral production and...

Handwriting is an important skill in literate societies. This project investigates two intricately related theoretical issues, namely the extent to which handwriting is...

This project involved an investigation of executive functioning (EF) abilities in children with specific language impairment (SLI). SLI is a common neurodevelopmental disorder...

Our research is concerned with the underlying causes of reading difficulty. There is good evidence that some cases of reading difficulty (termed dyslexia) are caused by...

This research will take place in Zanzibar, where children are expected to show how well they have learned school subjects through formal examinations in English. In Zanzibar, on...

Every week thousands of parents in the UK join BabySign classes in the belief that it will help their infant's development. Our research team has been conducting the first...

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...

The most natural and basic form of language use is dialogue, in which two or more interlocutors are engaged in both production and comprehension. But psycholinguistics focuses...

Primetime television programming does not function as mere entertainment for viewers, but a site in which contemporary social issues are considered and negotiated. This project...

Periphrasis is a widespread and significant phenomenon, and a valuable indicator of how a language functions. It reveals how the construction of meaning in language is...

Arabic script is essentially alphabetic, that is it uses different characters based on the pronunciation of words. However, much Arabic writing only includes the consonants,...

This study explores the integration of corpus linguistic and sociolinguistic approaches for the analysis of a unique 4-million word longitudinal corpus of messages posted to the...

We often communicate much more than we actually say when make an utterance. For example, saying "Dave has a nice personality" when asked whether he is physically attractive can...

Linguists seek to gain a better understanding of what language users know and intuit about the social meaning of variable linguistic features, in order to explain how they are...

The internet is a central part of contemporary life. After e-mail, online discussion forums are one of the most popular ways for people to interact online. Research into...

Spoken language has primacy over written language. Before acquiring skills in reading and writing, most people have developed relative competence in understanding and producing...

The increasing incidence of illegal downloading among ordinary media consumers has cast copyright as a central component of contemporary conversations about and activities...

Older people who are confident and empowered users of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) stand to gain significant benefits for the full duration of their old...