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Identifying DLD in bilingual children and the role of cognition
Invited talk by Rachel Kan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Abstract: The identification of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) remains a thorny...
Multimodality Reading Group
This meeting was proposed by Liling Siew, aiming at obtaining a review of multimodal research and discussing some basic concepts...
Linguistic PGR (virtual) poster conference 2021
This year’s linguistics PGR conference will be held online, through the combination of a specially-created OSF repository and an online...
Accent Bias in Britain: Why Accent Matters
A live talk followed by a Q and A session investigating accent bias in the workplace. Accent is one of...
Language research showcased at Be Curious
On the 15th of July, Be Curious LATES featured Draško Kašćelan (LCS) and Fiona Douglas (School of English), on the theme...
Spoken Language, Standards and Inequality in Schools
Dates: 2021-2023 Funding body: Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (£51,390) Primary investigator: Dr. Julia Snell (School of English) L@L satellite: Language...
Albert Valdman award for outstanding publication in 2020 awarded to Cecile De Cat
This double-length article reports on a multifaceted investigation of the environmental and cognitive predictors of proficiency in English as the...
Extinction Studies DTP
Thea Pitman, Diane Nelson and Janet Watson are on the supervisory team for the new Leverhulme-funded Extinction Studies Doctoral Training Programme (PL Graham Huggan)....
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