Meet the team
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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 Amy Bidgood is a Research Associate at the University of
Liverpool who has been researching children's language development since 2007, moving to Liverpool from the University of York in 2011. She has studied children's babble and pronunciation of first words, as well as how older children learn to stop making grammatical mistakes in their speech. You can contact her at: Amy.Bidgood@liverpool.ac.uk |
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! 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 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 their accents change over time living in Liverpool. You can contact her at: sdurrant@liverpool.ac.uk |
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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. You can contact her at: ps0u3151@liverpool.ac.uk |
Jamie Lingwood is a Research Associate on an ESRC-funded
project called ‘Promoting children’s language development through family-based shared reading’ with Professor Caroline Rowland and Dr. Josie Billington. Prior to this, Jamie completed his PhD in Developmental Psychology at the University of Sheffield. You can contact him at: jl2015@liverpool.ac.uk. |
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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. You can contact him at: jpine@liverpool.ac.uk |
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 |
