Centre
Centre for Research in Language Development throughout the Lifespan (LaDeLi)
Language is fundamental to our lives.Â
We use it for thinking, communicating, learning and nearly everything else we do.
We're a team of internationally renowned researchers covering all aspects of language development throughout the lifespan. The broad range of our research makes us uniquely interdisciplinary, merging theories and methodologies from psychology, cognitive science, sociolinguistics and education. As the first centre in the UK to look at language throughout the lifespan, we're looking to answer difficult questions:
- How do we learn language, and how does our language change throughout our lives?
- What's different about learning a second language compared to a first?
- How do multiple languages shape our identity?
- How does our first language change over our lifetime?
- What if we stop using it regularly, or we suffer from Alzheimer's, a stroke or a brain injury?
Our Directors
Our members
Dr Tracey Costley
Member
LaDeLi - Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
Dr Alvaro Marin Garcia
Member
LaDeLi - Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
Dr Adela Ganem Gutierrez
Member
LaDeLi - Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
Dr Khadij Gharibi
Member
LaDeLi - Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
Dr Christina Gkonou
Member
LaDeLi - Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
Dr Ella Jeffries
Member
LaDeLi - Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
Dr Laurel Lawyer
Member
LaDeLi - Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
Dr Claire Delle Luche
Member
LaDeLi - Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
Dr Neophytos Mitsigkas
Member
LaDeLi - Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
Professor Monika Schmid
Member
LaDeLi - Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
Dr Sophia Skoufaki
Member
LaDeLi - Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
Participate in our research
Participant database for adults
We are always looking for new participants to join our participant pool, whether you're a:
- Monolingual speaker
- Bilingual speaker
- Second language learner
For most experiments you'll be paid for your participation. Experiments involve things like reading experiments, acoustic or listening experiments, tests of memory and individual differences.
To register for our participant database click here.
Language Games Club
Our Essex Language Games Club is an informal lunch club open to anyone, staff, student or guest, who is interested in the world of language and games. We meet weekly during term-time in our Department's social space to develop, discuss, or play language games and support charities related to language games.
To find out more about the club and how you can get involved click here.
Language, communication and dementia workshops
Our researchers are holding workshops and interviews with dementia clinicians and nurses, dementia society administrators and users, caregivers and other parties interested in Alzheimer's Disease (AD).
As part of the project that these workshops will contribute to, our researchers will develop materials and support our contributors’ future interactions with AD patients, and inform the larger community of interested parties about language-based changes related to AD.
Want to find out more about our related courses?
Join our vibrant community of staff and students working on various aspects of language development throughout the lifespan.With over fifty students on our Masters courses, as well as some twenty PhD students, we are one of the most dynamic places in the country to study language development. Many of our postgraduate students have used the international student body at Essex to conduct studies on children's acquisition of their own languages. We also offer a number of different areas of supervision for our doctoral programmes as well as research groups who meet regularly to discuss their work.
Get in touch
Centre for Research in Language Development Throughout the Lifespan
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ
Telephone:
01206 872083
Email:
ladeli@essex.ac.uk
Department of Language and Linguistics
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ
Telephone:
01206 872083
Email:
ladeli@essex.ac.uk