Language Development and Disorders (LDD): research projects
- AMPs: Assessment of metapragmatics.
Metapragmatic ability in children with pragmatic language impairments: exploring its potential as a mediator of intervention.
Principal investigator: Dr Catherine Adams
Co-investigator: Dr Elaine Lockton
Research assistant: Ms Anna Collins - Assessing the Effectiveness of Communication Therapy in the North West - The ACT NoW Study.
Principal investigator: Dr Audrey Bowen
Investigators: Professor Alys Young, Professor Andy Vail, Dr Anne Hesketh, Dr Karen Sage, Professor Linda Davies, Professor Matthew Lambon Ralph, Professor Pippa Tyrrell - Bilinguals' access to L1 in L2 comprehension
Co-investigator: Dr Andrew Stewart
Research assistant: Nadiia Denhovska - Bilinguals' access to L1 in L2 comprehension
Co-investigator: Dr Andrew Stewart
Research assistant: Nadiia Denhovska - Developing a meaningful account of the acquisition of English past tense
Principal investigator: Professor Anna Theakston
Co-investigator: Dr Anna Woollams
Research associates: Dr Grzegorz Krajewski, Dr Joanna Moy
Research assistant: Miss Sarah Keeble - Effects of language training on children's use of complex syntax
Principal investigator: Dr Ludovica Serratrice
Co-investigator: Dr Anne Hesketh
Research assistant: Miss Rachel Ashworth - LuCiD - Learning basic morphosyntax in languages with case marking: Polish and Finnish
Principal investigator: Professor Elena Lieven
Co-investigator: Professor Anna Theakston
Research associate: Dr Marta Szreder - LuCiD - Learning how to inflect verbs in different languages
Principal investigator: Professor Elena Lieven
Co-investigator: Professor Anna Theakston
Research associate: Dr Marta Szreder - LuCiD - The acquisition of tag questions
Principal investigator: Professor Anna Theakston
Co-investigators: Professor Elena Lieven, Thea Cameron-Faulkner
PhD student: Mrs Michelle Davis - LuCiD - The role of visual preferences in later language learning
Principal investigator: Professor Anna Theakston
Research associate: Dr Iain Jackson - LuCiD - Using word order for communicative ends
Principal investigator: Professor Elena Lieven
Co-investigator: Professor Anna Theakston
Research associates: Dr Laura De Ruiter, Dr Marta Szreder - Perceptions of the value of an intensive intervention for children with pragmatic language impairments from educational and family perspectives
Principal investigator: Dr Elaine Lockton
Investigator: Dr Catherine Adams
Collaborator: Dr Janet Baxendale - Referential communication and executive function skills in bilingual children
Principal investigator: Cécile De Cat
Co-investigator: Dr Ludovica Serratrice
Research associate: Sanne Berends - Social Communication Intervention Project (SCIP)
Principal investigator: Dr Catherine Adams
Investigators: Dr Elaine Lockton, Professor Jonathan Green
Collaborators: Professor James Law, Dr Marysia Nash , Dr Catherine Aldred, Dr Janet Baxendale
Research speech and language therapists: Ms Jacqueline Gaile, Mrs Gillian Earl
Research assistants: Dr Jenny Freed, Miss Kirsty McBean - Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and adulthood: Identifying pathways to resilience/adjustment in personal, social and societal functioning
Principal investigator: Professor Gina Conti-Ramsden
Co-investigators: Dr Nicola Botting, Professor Kevin Durkin, Professor Andrew Pickles
Research associates: Dr Umar Toseeb, Dr Pearl Mok
Research assistants: Dr Jenny Freed, Ms Jo Piper - The Acquisition of Auxilaries in Early Child Language.
Principal investigator: Professor Anna Theakston
Co-investigator: Dr. Caroline Rowland - The role of constructional competition in children's infinitival-to omission errors
Principal investigator: Professor Anna Theakston
Research associate: Ms Minna Kirjavainen - Understanding language comprehension in bilingual children
Principal investigator: Dr Ludovica Serratrice
Co-investigator: Prof. Antonella Sorace
Research associate: Dr Michela Baldo
- Case marking errors in early child language
PhD student: Miss Stacey McKnight
Supervisors: Professor Anna Theakston, Professor Elena Lieven - Literacy and memory skills in children with pragmatic language impairment
PhD student: Dr Jenny Freed
Advisor: Dr Andrew Stewart
Supervisors: Dr Catherine Adams, Dr Elaine Lockton - Metapragmatic ability in children with pragmatic language impairments, specific language impairments, autism and typically developing language: A comparison study
PhD student: Anna Collins
Advisor: Dr Kai Uus
Supervisors: Dr Catherine Adams, Dr Elaine Lockton - Ordering effects in the acquisition of complex sentences: A multivariate approach
PhD student: Bianca Junge
Supervisors: Professor Anna Theakston, Professor Elena Lieven - Playground socilisation in children with PLI
PhD student: Jenny Gibson
Advisor: Dr Kai Uus
Supervisors: Dr Catherine Adams, Dr Elaine Lockton, Professor Jonathan Green - Priming in second language acquisition: the interpretation of relative clauses
PhD student: Sanjo Nitschke
Advisor: Dr Andrew Stewart
Supervisors: Dr Evan Kidd, Dr Ludovica Serratrice - The acquisition of negation
PhD student: Mr Keith Austin
Supervisors: Professor Anna Theakston, Professor Elena Lieven
