PGR poster conference

The Language Development & Cognition satellite is hosting a mini poster conference to give PhD students the opportunity to showcase their research.

All welcome!  There will be tea/coffee and "home made" biscuits.

Preliminary programme:

• How does prioritisation and probe frequency affect visual working memory in children?
  Amy Atkinson – School of Psychology (Supervisors: Richard Allen and Amanda Waterman)

• Do task-relevant stimuli arrangements boost working memory performance in children?
  Ed Berry – School of Psychology (Supervisor: Amanda Waterman)

• The Role of Syntactic Priming in Auditory Word Identification
  Basma Elkhafif – School of Psychology (Supervisor: Jelena Havelka)

• A pilot study examining academic reading comprehension skills in EFL students
  Handan Lu – School of Education (Supervisors: Richard Badger; Shirley Anne-Paul)

• Do italics facilitate processing of contrastive focus?
  Chris Norton  – Linguistics & Phonetics (Supervisors: Cat Davies and Diane Nelson)

• The Language Profile of the Born in Bradford cohort
  Lydia Gunning – School of Psychology (Supervisor: Ekaterini Klepousniotou)

• Effects of verb-semantic and discourse-contextual information in the interpretation of reflexive ziji by (English-L1) L2 learners of Chinese
  Mengling Xu  – Linguistics & Phonetics (Supervisor: Cecile De Cat)