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Social networks, target language interaction and second language acquisition ...
Residence abroad is a key experience for university students studying languages, and most benefit from it greatly. However, students' language development during residence... -
Auditory processing and language in children with mild to moderate sensorineu...
The aim of this project is to investigate why some children with permanent mild or moderate hearing loss (MMHL) have impaired language, while others do not. One factor that... -
Using a word-learning paradigm to investigate three forms of generalisation i...
The ability to generalise knowledge from a limited set of exemplars is at the heart of our language abilities. One example of this productivity arises in the domain of... -
Phonological levelling, diffusion and divergence in Liverpool and its hinterland
It is widely reported in the UK media that English accents are becoming alike. In 2001 a Guardian article claimed "England's distinctive dialects may be doomed to disappear".... -
Testing the JANUS model of noun-phrase anaphor interpretation
In well-written text the same people, places, and things are referred to a number of times. Such repeated references often use different linguistic expressions "the person in... -
Language, Performance and Region: Discourse and Sociocultural Identity in the...
This project seeks to investigate the relationship between a specific discourse practice - imaginative and stylized performance - and connections performance may have with... -
From communication disorders research to conversation-based interventions for...
There are approximately 1.1 million stroke survivors living in the UK, and 33 per cent have aphasia (a communication disorder that affects speaking, understanding, reading and... -
Observations of surgical operations
Surgical operations in a major hospital were observed and video recorded. Data coding involved transcription of sequences of instrument requests by surgeons and responses to... -
Law, terrorism and the right to know
Law, Terrorism and the Right to Know (LTRK) was a three year research programme funded by the ESRC and AHRC under the RCUK Global Uncertainties Fellowships in Ideas and Beliefs... -
The role of celebrity in young people's classed and gendered aspirations
Interview and focus groups transcripts, school summaries and participants overview in six 11-19 co-educational comprehensive schools. This youth-centred study combines... -
Transcription textGrids for the audio edition of the British National Corpus ...
This collection comprises the Praat TextGrids for time-aligned transcriptions of the Audio BNC sound files. Transcriptions are time-aligned at the word and phoneme levels. The... -
British sign language corpus
The British Sign Language (BSL) Corpus is a collection of video clips showing Deaf people using BSL, together with background information about the signers and some written... -
kidLUCID: London UCL Children's clear speech in interaction database
This collection contains the quantitative data resulting from the analysis of the kidLUCID audio corpus – a set of speech recordings collected for 96 children aged 9 to 14 years... -
The good sex project
This collection contains a series of short films that reanimate original research data. The films were made as part of a particiaptory youth arts project. The collection also... -
Corpus data on metaphor in end-of-life care
This data collection consists of five different text corpora, i.e. large collections of language data, generated for the systematic analysis of the metaphors used by members of... -
Interviews With Mexico City Market Traders Regarding the Adoption of Digital ...
The data consist of six transcripts of semi-structured interviews conducted online with market trader leaders in Mexico City. These interviews result from complementary research... -
Ethnic Inequalities in Cultural Production, 2018-2020
Examining institutions in the cultural sector (particularly in the TV industry), this project sought to ask the following questions: • What is the nature of ethnic minority... -
Chinese Communities: Family Ethnography Data, 2017-2020
10 families of different types (SES) and structures (e.g. nuclear, extended, single-parent) were observed. The data provide insight into family members’ ideological positions... -
Family Language Policy: National Survey, 2017-2019
This large-scale survey of Family Language Policy (FLP) looks into what types of FLP exist in private domains in the current UK society and how mobility and on-going changes in... -
Attitudes Towards Emotional Artificial Intelligence Use: Transcripts of Citiz...
The data were collected during citizen workshops, conducted online via Zoom, exploring attitudes towards emotional artificial intelligence use (EAI). EAI is the use of affective...