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Acquiring Language

A multi-disciplinary look at how we acquire language: from the perspectives of developmental psychology, applied linguistics, computational linguistics and English language.

This is one of a series of themed discussions with Oxford academics from different disciplines. See the complete collection here. 
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Professor Kim Plunkett

Professor Plunkett is the Director of the Oxford BabyLab, which investigates language and cognitive development in infants. 

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Dr Friederike Otto

Friederike (Fredi) is Associate Director of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, and an Associate Professor in the Global Climate Science Programme.

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Professor Stephen Pulman

Professor Pulman, a computer linguist, looks at how we can get computers to simulate language learning and what it is currently impossible to get a computer to understand that a human can do intuitively.

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Professor Victoria Murphy

Professor Murphy from the Oxford Department of Education looks at the differences in literacy and linguistic development in bilingual compared to monolingual children.