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Professor Caroline Rowland, Team Lead
Caroline Rowland is a Professor at the University of Liverpool

and Director of Language Development at the Max Planck

Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. She leads the

Language 0-5 Project and has worked on language

development since graduating as a psychologist in 1993. She

has two children who are grown up and who have been very

patient with her attempts to study their language

development.



​You can contact her at: crowland@liverpool.ac.uk
Heather Turnbull, Research Associate
Heather Turnbull is a Research Assistant at the University of

Liverpool.  She spent five years in Barcelona teaching English

to children ranging in ages from 3 to 13, before moving back

to do a Masters in Linguistics here at the University.  
She now

works on the Language 0-5 Project with Michelle and

​Samantha.


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You can contact her at: H.Turnbull@liverpool.ac.uk



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Dr Claire Noble, Research Associate

​Claire Noble is a Research Associate at the University of

Liverpool. She completed her PhD here in 2009 and has been

working on language development ever since.  She is part of

the ‘Reading Together’ project team who are looking at how

shared book reading can support language development.

She is also working with our partners at Beanstalk to evaluate

​their ‘Story Starters’ programme in local preschools.


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You can contact her at: 
ps0u3151@liverpool.ac.uk

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Dr Michelle Peter, Research Associate

​Michelle Peter is a Research Associate at the University of

Liverpool and completed her PhD in child language

acquisition here in April 2015. She has always been interested

in how children manage the tricky business of learning

language, and is even more so now that she has a toddler

herself! In particular she is interested in learning what

aspects during the first years of a baby’s life are important for

language development, and how this relates to their

​performance at school later on.


​You can contact her at: Michelle.Peter@liverpool.ac.uk
Dr Samantha Durrant, Research Associate
Samantha Durrant is a Research Associate at the University

of Liverpool. She completed her PhD in language

development and accents at Plymouth University, and is

passionate and enthusiastic about how children

develop language. She has two young boys and is fascinated

to watch how their accents have changed over time since

​moving to Liverpool.




​You can contact her at: sdurrant@liverpool.ac.uk



Professor Julian Pine
Julian Pine is a Professor at the University of Liverpool. His

research focuses on how children learn grammar and

morphology in different languages, and on using computer

models to understand how differences in the pattern of errors

shown by children learning different languages are related to

​the characteristics of the ​language that they are learning.


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​You can contact him at: jpine@liverpool.ac.uk
Professor Ben Ambridge
Ben Ambridge is a Professor at the University of Liverpool.

His research investigates children's first language

acquisition, mostly using judgement and production

methodologies. He is particularly interested in children's

overgeneralization errors (e.g., *The joked giggled him).  He

also studies children's acquisition of morphology, focusing

particularly on Optional Infinitive errors in English (e.g., *He

play 
) and agreement/case-marking errors in

morphologically rich languages, specifically Polish, Finnish

and Lithuanian.

​​Ben also writes popular science - his
 book, Psy-Q, 

introduces readers to interesting findings from the

Psychology literature by means of interactive tests, ​games,

​illusions and quizzes.


​You can contact him at: ambridge@liverpool.ac.uk



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Anna’s research interests focus on what helps babies to

learn. Specifically during her PhD she will be finding out

about why learning words is so important to babies and

whether learning these words helps them to remember the

objects around them.
 
Anna’s studies will be for 6-9 month olds, and will mainly be

using our eye tracker. By using the eye tracker she can find

out lots about whether infants from an early age can follow

​and remember objects they have seen.


You can contact her at: hlabrow8@liverpool.ac.uk



Lewis Ball is a second year demonstrator and PhD student at

the University of Liverpool. His research looks at

understanding how infants learn new words using

electroencephalography (EEG). EEG is a technique which

measures the electrical activity produced in the brain whilst

participants engage in some sort of task. In Lewis'

experiments he uses EEG to detect signs of learning when

children are taught new words.


You can contact him at hllball2@liverpool.ac.uk 



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Hannah Sawyer is a first year PhD student at the University

of Liverpool. Her PhD will look at how children learn to use

verbs correctly and whether the input they hear from their

parents can influence this process. Hannah’s studies will be

for a children of a variety of ages, and both typically

developing children and children with language problems.

She will ask them to complete a variety of language games

such as sentence repetition and sentence completion tasks.
 


​You can contact her at hshsawy2@liverpool.ac.uk


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