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Current projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
Speaker identity in metaphor processing	LCS SRDF	1 January 2015	31 December 2099
Linguistic diversity and accent bias in Higher Education and beyond	Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship	1 September 2024	1 December 2025
Co-creating guidelines for the use Q-BEx for language screening	ESRC Impact Acceleration (via LSSI)	1 September 2024	31 August 2025

Past projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
How variable is speech, how reliable are single recordings? Assessing the medium-term dynamics of speech through iterative data collection	British Academy/Leverhulme Trust	4 July 2022	1 July 2024
Quantifying bilingual language experience: Optimising tools for educators, clinicians and researchers	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 October 2019	30 September 2022
The phonetics and phonology of Modern South Arabian: Mehri and Shehret	Leverhulme Trust	1 December 2019	30 September 2022
Social Distancing and Development	ESRC	1 May 2020	30 November 2021
Assessing core language skills at the beginning of secondary school in the Born-in-Bradford cohort	Bradford Opportunity Area	15 September 2020	14 September 2021
The Impact of Covid-19 on Key Learning and Education (ICKLE)	ESRC	1 September 2020	30 August 2021
Children's experience, understanding, and use of adjectives across the socioeconomic spectrum	Economic and Social Research Council	1 February 2018	31 January 2021
Speech tempo perception and missing sounds	Leverhulme Trust	4 September 2017	1 October 2020
“Reading to Learn” – cognitive processes involved in learning Chinese characters	LCS	1 May 2019	31 July 2019
ManyBabies1: Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference	APS	1 May 2017	1 April 2018
Early discourse competence in preschool children: An elicitation study	AHRC	1 September 2016	1 December 2017
Syllables, segments and how to measure speech tempo: Evidence from listening experiments	British Academy / Leverhulme Trust	4 July 2016	3 September 2017
Exploring psycholinguistic eye tracking methodologies and data analytic techniques	British Academy	1 January 2014	31 December 2015
Referential communication and executive function skills in bilingual children	Leverhulme Trust	1 October 2012	30 June 2015
New statistical methods to analyse psycholinguistic data	British Academy	1 January 2014	1 December 2014
The Bantu-Romance connection	ESF / British Academy	1 May 2006	1 May 2007