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Machine-readable grammatical resources for Indonesian
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... -
Dynamic interactions between perception and production: An integrated experim...
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 emergence and development of the tense-aspect system in L2 Spanish
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... -
The role of phonological and suprasegmental codes in handwritten word product...
Handwriting is an important skill in literate societies. This project investigates two intricately related theoretical issues, namely the extent to which handwriting is... -
Executive functioning in children with specific language impairment
This project involved an investigation of executive functioning (EF) abilities in children with specific language impairment (SLI). SLI is a common neurodevelopmental disorder... -
Distinguishing between cognitive and experiential causes of reading difficulty
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... -
Student Performance in National Examinations: the dynamics of language in sch...
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... -
Identifying the wider, non-linguistic, benefits of gestural communication wit...
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... -
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... -
Mechanisms of learning, alignment and routinization in dialogue
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... -
Social issues in primetime television: Production processes and audience resp...
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... -
Brighter, cleverer, but more intelligent: understanding periphrasis
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... -
Orthography, phonology and morphology in the Arabic lexicon
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,... -
Health communication and the internet: An analysis of adolescent language use...
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... -
The time course of inferences in language comprehension
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... -
Whose social meaning? Age and the indexical field: evidence from perception a...
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 unanticipated transformative potential of online forums: Implications for...
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... -
Investigating orthographic effects on speech perception and speech production...
Spoken language has primacy over written language. Before acquiring skills in reading and writing, most people have developed relative competence in understanding and producing... -
Communicating copyright: An exploration of copyright discourses in the digita...
The increasing incidence of illegal downloading among ordinary media consumers has cast copyright as a central component of contemporary conversations about and activities... -
SUS-IT: : Sustaining IT use by older people to promote autonomy and independence
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...