How do multilingual babies acquire their languages? In Africa, multilingualism is the norm. In our new study with 9-11 month old Ghanaian babies learning up to 5 languages simultaneously, we found that they were able to recognize words in text passages in Akan, one of their languages.

Had a great time presenting my poster at #WILD2025 conference this week in San Sebastian, lucky enough to be sticking around for #ISB15 starting tomorrow! 🇪🇸

Thanks Jennifer! :)

Thrilled to share my first first-authored publication from my PhD!
My article, "Exploring differences between mothers’ and fathers’ language attitudes in multilingual London", is now out in the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development! 🎉
Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to share a new paper I collaborated on during my research stay at the University of Heidelberg! A systematic review of (semi-)automatic tools for studying early speech and language development! Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Cheers to my first publication acceptance of my PhD 🥂 & to springtime in my lovely Devon garden 🌸.
'Exploring Differences between Mothers' and Fathers' Language Attitudes in Multilingual London' written with my amazing supervisor, Rana Abu-Zhaya, out soon! 🤓

My last day at the Systemic Ethology and Developmental Science unit (SEE) at University of Heidelberg. I have had a lovely 4 weeks in Germany and learnt alot :) Back to Plymouth!

Join us for the LangVIEW April Seminar! Assistant Professor Ryan E. Henke and Professor Julie Brittain will be leading the discussion with their presentation titled: "What Child-Directed Speech Can Reveal about Obviation: A Case Study of Northern East Cree Demonstratives."

Next LangVIEW seminar on February 23rd (8:30 PM IST, 4:30 PM CET, 10 AM EST)! We'll hear the talk "Micro-analysis of linguistic input to infants between 6-12 months from two different studies from India" from co-presenters Divya Swaminathan & Reny Raju.

Zoom link: plymouth.zoom.us/j/9231774689...

Delighted to be in the Netherlands for MPL at the Max Planck Institute 🇳🇱! My poster on "Evaluating Language Input Measures for Multilingual Infants" is up tomorrow. If you're around, swing by! In the meantime, enjoy this random picture of a Dutch cat I walked past.... #MPL2023