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About the projects

Research on language acquisition and language processing is directed by Dr Juliana Gerard at the Language and Memory Research Lab.

This research focuses on how children learn to process complex sentences, and how this learning relates to other thinking processes like memory and planning.

Ongoing studies

Language and Memory in the Acquisition of Complex Sentences

A study for 4-5 year olds looking at the interaction between language and memory

Language Processing in Sentences with Memory Retrieval

An online study looking at the interaction between language and memory as we understand a sentence in real-time