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Literacy attainment, data and discourse from the mid-19th century to the pres...
Literacy Attainment Data and Discourse is an ESRC Fellowship which will collect literacy attainment data from three contrasting historical periods and explore variations in... -
Language within your reach? Investigating the mapping between spatial and non...
Communication involves a combination of speech and gestures which afford joint attention between speaker and hearer. In this grant the mapping between language and the vision... -
Celebrity and Development
This fellowship explores the rise and consequences of celebrity in overseas development. Since the 1984 famine in Ethiopia, the fields of celebrity and development have become... -
Optimising website design for people with learning disabilities using 'trade-...
Although the internet may greatly assist information provision for people with learning disabilities (LD), much material is out of reach of this cohort, partly because of... -
Eye Say: Investigating language production processes in typical and atypical ...
Language impairments are common in developmental disorders such as specific language impairment and autism spectrum disorder. This research will use eye-tracking techniques to... -
The internet, electoral politics and citizen participation in global perspective
This project examines how new media are affecting political participation and campaigning in elections worldwide with particular reference to UK and Australian parliamentary... -
Supporting the use of digital media in research with children and young peopl...
This project will create an online resource about using digital media in research with children and young people. It has developed out of a recognition that digital media offers... -
How does cognitive load affect speech recognition?
Current knowledge of human speech recognition is based on experiments using carefully recorded speech, a quiet testing environment, and undivided attention. Such optimal... -
EuroBABEL - Kinship systems in southern African non-Bantu languages: document...
Kinship terminology is both a part of language and a part of society. Behaviour towards relatives, familial obligations, and rules of incest avoidance and marriage can be... -
Living with Uncertainty: Metaphor and the Dynamics of Empathy in Discourse
The programme of research into the dynamics of empathy will investigate the role of language, and in particular metaphor, in the construction and shifting of people's attitudes... -
Professional development consortium in modern languages
The decline in popularity of Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) in England is well-documented, with many areas for improvement in the teaching of the subject identified (OFSTED,... -
Effects of input on early word learning
This study is designed to provide an ecologically valid test of the role of input characteristics on infant word form recognition, the first step in word learning. The input... -
Developing Media Literacy: From Research to Practice
This project is a programme of knowledge exchange activities following on from a recently completed ESRC-funded research project 'Developing Media Literacy: Towards a Model of... -
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... -
Discourse processing in poor comprehenders: An eye movement study
These data are from an eye movement experiment examining the effect of semantic typicality and distance on online anaphor resolution during reading in children, and the extent... -
The internet and everyday rights in Russia
This two-year project analyses whether the internet can champion the causes of citizens in non-democratic states. While there is much speculation that the internet can provide... -
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... -
Constraining generalisation in language learning: a rational learning approach
Successful language acquisition relies on generalisation, yet many 'sensible' generalisations are actually ungrammatical (eg 'John carried me teddy.'). This grant explores how... -
The role of the agent in sentence comprehension by preschool children
24-month-olds are surprisingly good at understanding sentences, even when they cannot say any themselves and even when the verbs are ones which they have never encountered... -
Supporting digital engagement - An intervention with Sheffield Homes
This knowledge exchange project is a collaborative intervention in the area of digital inclusion. The project will support Sheffield City Council and Sheffield Homes in...