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View article: Simulating the Relationship Between Nonword Repetition Performance and Vocabulary Growth in 2‐Year‐Olds: Evidence From the Language 0–5 Project
Simulating the Relationship Between Nonword Repetition Performance and Vocabulary Growth in 2‐Year‐Olds: Evidence From the Language 0–5 Project Open
A strong predictor of children's language is performance on non‐word repetition (NWR) tasks. However, the basis of this relationship remains unknown. Some suggest that NWR tasks measure phonological working memory, which then affects langu…
View article: Exploring the Experience of Romantic Relationships and Sexuality Education in Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Young Individuals
Exploring the Experience of Romantic Relationships and Sexuality Education in Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Young Individuals Open
Purpose The literature indicates that sexuality education provided in schools/colleges in the United Kingdom (UK) may not be appropriate for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). There appears to be a lack of understanding of the sub…
View article: Broad Perspectives of the Experience of Romantic Relationships and Sexual Education in Neurodivergent Adolescents and Young Adults
Broad Perspectives of the Experience of Romantic Relationships and Sexual Education in Neurodivergent Adolescents and Young Adults Open
Neurodivergent young people tend to struggle with building and maintaining their romantic relationships. Despite this, there appears to be a lack of appropriate sexuality education delivered to them. This review aims to present and discuss…
View article: The trouble with a cuddle: Families’ experiences of supervising interactions between children in middle childhood and the family dog
The trouble with a cuddle: Families’ experiences of supervising interactions between children in middle childhood and the family dog Open
Background: There is growing scientific interest in the benefits for children of interacting with and engaging with domestic dogs. Since the effects of such pairings on the dog are under explored, this study aimed to explore the lived expe…
View article: The multiple roles of media use within the family system during lockdown: A thematic analysis of parental reports from the <scp>UK</scp>
The multiple roles of media use within the family system during lockdown: A thematic analysis of parental reports from the <span>UK</span> Open
Children's media use increased during the COVID‐19 lockdowns. Here, we present a thematic analysis of online survey responses from 69 parents (of children aged 0–11 years) who described their family media use after the first UK lockdown. D…
View article: The junior doctor shadow board
The junior doctor shadow board Open
Before 2020, North Manchester General Hospital had a history of poor feedback from junior doctors, regarding both their overall experience and access to non-clinical development opportunities. The circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic res…
View article: Simulating the relationship between non-word repetition performance and language growth in 2 year olds: Evidence from the Language 0-5 Project
Simulating the relationship between non-word repetition performance and language growth in 2 year olds: Evidence from the Language 0-5 Project Open
A strong predictor of children’s language is performance on non-word repetition (NWR) tasks. However, the basis of this relationship remains unknown. Some suggest that NWR tasks measure phonological working memory, which then affects langu…
View article: Executive Function and Sentence Processing Ability: Evidence from the Language 0-5 Project
Executive Function and Sentence Processing Ability: Evidence from the Language 0-5 Project Open
There is a wealth of evidence demonstrating that executive function abilities (EF) are positively, and significantly, associated with language development during the preschool years, such that children with good executive functions also ha…
View article: Testing a computational model of causative overgeneralizations: Child judgment and production data from English, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese and K’iche’
Testing a computational model of causative overgeneralizations: Child judgment and production data from English, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese and K’iche’ Open
How do language learners avoid the production of verb argument structure overgeneralization errors (*The clown laughed the man c.f. The clown made the man laugh), while retaining the ability to apply such generalizations productively when …
View article: A balanced digital diet for under 5s: A commentary on Orben (2021)
A balanced digital diet for under 5s: A commentary on Orben (2021) Open
Orben (2021) proposed a ‘Digital Diet’ approach to thinking about children's consumption of digital media. Here, we consider the Digital Diet with a focus on young children under 5. As well as discussing how Type and Amount apply to this a…
View article: 67 The junior doctor shadow board, lessons learned from the corporate sector
67 The junior doctor shadow board, lessons learned from the corporate sector Open
Background: North Manchester General Hospital (NMGH) has a history of poor feedback from junior doctors, in both overall experience and access to non-clinical development opportunities. The advent of Covid-19 led the medical leadership tea…
View article: Verb argument structure overgeneralisations for the English intransitive and transitive constructions: grammaticality judgments and production priming
Verb argument structure overgeneralisations for the English intransitive and transitive constructions: grammaticality judgments and production priming Open
We used a multi-method approach to investigate how children avoid (or retreat from) argument structure overgeneralisation errors (e.g., * You giggled me ). Experiment 1 investigated how semantic and statistical constraints (preemption and …
View article: Testing a computational model of causative overgeneralizations: Child judgment and production data from English, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese and K’iche’
Testing a computational model of causative overgeneralizations: Child judgment and production data from English, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese and K’iche’ Open
How do language learners avoid the production of verb argument structure overgeneralization errors (*The clown laughed the man c.f. The clown made the man laugh), while retaining the ability to apply such generalizations productively when …
View article: Syntactic Representations Are Both Abstract and Semantically Constrained: Evidence From Children’s and Adults’ Comprehension and Production/Priming of the English Passive
Syntactic Representations Are Both Abstract and Semantically Constrained: Evidence From Children’s and Adults’ Comprehension and Production/Priming of the English Passive Open
All accounts of language acquisition agree that, by around age 4, children’s knowledge of grammatical constructions is abstract, rather than tied solely to individual lexical items. The aim of the present research was to investigate, focus…
View article: Does the understanding of complex dynamic events at 10 months predict vocabulary development?
Does the understanding of complex dynamic events at 10 months predict vocabulary development? Open
By the end of their first year, infants can interpret many different types of complex dynamic visual events, such as caused-motion, chasing, and goal-directed action. Infants of this age are also in the early stages of vocabulary developme…
View article: Disentangling syntactic, semantic and pragmatic impairments in ASD: Elicited production of passives
Disentangling syntactic, semantic and pragmatic impairments in ASD: Elicited production of passives Open
Children with ASD and an IQ-matched control group of typically developing (TD) children completed an elicited-production task which encouraged the production of reversible passive sentences (e.g., “Bob was hit by Wendy”). Although the two …
View article: Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications
Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications Open
Much of Lieven’s pioneering work has helped move the study of individual differences to the centre of child language research. The goal of the present chapter is to illustrate how the study of individual differences provides crucial insigh…
View article: Does the understanding of complex dynamic events at 10 months predict vocabulary development?
Does the understanding of complex dynamic events at 10 months predict vocabulary development? Open
By the end of their first year, infants are able to interpret many different types of complex dynamic visual events, such as caused-motion, chasing, and goal-directed action. Infants of this age are also in the early stages of vocabulary d…
View article: Does speed of processing or vocabulary size predict later language growth in toddlers?
Does speed of processing or vocabulary size predict later language growth in toddlers? Open
It is becoming increasingly clear that the way that children acquire cognitive representations depends critically on how their processing system is developing. In particular, recent studies suggest that individual differences in language p…
View article: The retreat from overgeneralisation errors: A multiple-paradigm approach
The retreat from overgeneralisation errors: A multiple-paradigm approach Open
This thesis examines children’s argument structure overgeneralisation errors (e.g. *Don’t giggle me!). Errors of this kind arise from children observing that certain verbs can appear in more than one argument structure (e.g. The ball rolle…