Dr Claire Delle Luche
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Email
c.delleluche@essex.ac.uk -
Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872113
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Location
4.313, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
I am on research leave in the Autumn term 2023-2024. Normal Academic support hours will start again in January but email me if you want to get in touch.
Profile
Qualifications
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PhD in Cognitive Science, specialisation in Linguistics Universite Lumiere Lyon 2,
Appointments
University of Essex
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Lecturer in psycholinguistics, Language and Linguistics, University of Essex (4/1/2015 - present)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Language variability: accents (children), bilingualism (children)
Semantic processing (children)
Speech perception (infants, children, adults)
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Child Language Development (LG115)
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Research methods for language and linguistics (LG213)
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English Language Processing (LG215)
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Language and the Mind (LG358)
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Developmental Psycholinguistics (LG421)
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Project: Linguistics (LG831)
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Group Project: Linguistics (LG832)
Current supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Psycholinguistics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 24/3/2023
Publications
Journal articles (17)
Plunkett, K., Delle Luche, C., Hills, T. and Floccia, C., (2022). Tracking the associative boost in infancy. Infancy. 27 (6), 1179-1196
Floccia, C., Delle Luche, C., Lepadatu, I., Chow, J., Ratnage, P. and Plunkett, K., (2020). Translation equivalent and cross-language semantic priming in bilingual toddlers. Journal of Memory and Language. 112, 104086-104086
Frank, MC., Alcock, KJ., Arias-Trejo, N., Aschersleben, G., Baldwin, D., Barbu, S., Bergelson, E., Bergmann, C., Black, AK., Blything, R., Böhland, MP., Bolitho, P., Borovsky, A., Brady, SM., Braun, B., Brown, A., Byers-Heinlein, K., Campbell, LE., Cashon, C., Choi, M., Christodoulou, J., Cirelli, LK., Conte, S., Cordes, S., Cox, C., Cristia, A., Cusack, R., Davies, C., de Klerk, M., Delle Luche, C., Ruiter, LD., Dinakar, D., Dixon, KC., Durier, V., Durrant, S., Fennell, C., Ferguson, B., Ferry, A., Fikkert, P., Flanagan, T., Floccia, C., Foley, M., Fritzsche, T., Frost, RLA., Gampe, A., Gervain, J., Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Gupta, A., Hahn, LE., Kiley Hamlin, J., Hannon, EE., Havron, N., Hay, J., Hernik, M., Höhle, B., Houston, DM., Howard, LH., Ishikawa, M., Itakura, S., Jackson, I., Jakobsen, KV., Jarto, M., Johnson, SP., Junge, C., Karadag, D., Kartushina, N., Kellier, DJ., Keren-Portnoy, T., Klassen, K., Kline, M., Ko, E-S., Kominsky, JF., Kosie, JE., Kragness, HE., Krieger, AAR., Krieger, F., Lany, J., Lazo, RJ., Lee, M., Leservoisier, C., Levelt, C., Lew-Williams, C., Lippold, M., Liszkowski, U., Liu, L., Luke, SG., Lundwall, RA., Macchi Cassia, V., Mani, N., Marino, C., Martin, A., Mastroberardino, M., Mateu, V., Mayor, J., Menn, K., Michel, C., Moriguchi, Y., Morris, B., Nave, KM., Nazzi, T., Noble, C., Novack, MA., Olesen, NM., John Orena, A., Ota, M., Panneton, R., Esfahani, SP., Paulus, M., Pletti, C., Polka, L., Potter, C., Rabagliati, H., Ramachandran, S., Rennels, JL., Reynolds, GD., Roth, KC., Rothwell, C., Rubez, D., Ryjova, Y., Saffran, J., Sato, A., Savelkouls, S., Schachner, A., Schafer, G., Schreiner, MS., Seidl, A., Shukla, M., Simpson, EA., Singh, L., Skarabela, B., Soley, G., Sundara, M., Theakston, A., Thompson, A., Trainor, LJ., Trehub, SE., Trøan, AS., Tsui, AS-M., Twomey, K., Von Holzen, K., Wang, Y., Waxman, S., Werker, JF., Wermelinger, S., Woolard, A., Yurovsky, D., Zahner, K., Zettersten, M. and Soderstrom, M., (2020). Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 3 (1), 24-52
Floccia, C., Sambrook, TD., Delle Luche, C., Kwok, R., Goslin, J., White, L., Cattani, A., Sullivan, E., Abbot‐Smith, K., Krott, A., Mills, D., Rowland, C., Gervain, J. and Plunkett, K., (2018). I: INTRODUCTION. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 83 (1), 7-29
Floccia, C., Sambrook, TD., Delle Luche, C., Kwok, R., Goslin, J., White, L., Cattani, A., Sullivan, E., Abbot‐Smith, K., Krott, A., Mills, D., Rowland, C., Gervain, J. and Plunkett, K., (2018). II: METHODS. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 83 (1), 30-42
Floccia, C., Sambrook, TD., Delle Luche, C., Kwok, R., Goslin, J., White, L., Cattani, A., Sullivan, E., Abbot‐Smith, K., Krott, A., Mills, D., Rowland, C., Gervain, J. and Plunkett, K., (2018). III: ANALYSES AND RESULTS FOR STUDY 1: ESTIMATING THE EFFECT OF LINGUISTIC DISTANCE ON VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 83 (1), 43-60
Floccia, C., Sambrook, TD., Delle Luche, C., Kwok, R., Goslin, J., White, L., Cattani, A., Sullivan, E., Abbot‐Smith, K., Krott, A., Mills, D., Rowland, C., Gervain, J. and Plunkett, K., (2018). IV: RESULTS FOR STUDIES 2 AND 3: THE UKBTAT MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION TO NONTARGET ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE LEARNERS. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 83 (1), 61-67
Floccia, C., Sambrook, TD., Delle Luche, C., Kwok, R., Goslin, J., White, L., Cattani, A., Sullivan, E., Abbot‐Smith, K., Krott, A., Mills, D., Rowland, C., Gervain, J. and Plunkett, K., (2018). V: GENERAL DISCUSSION. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 83 (1), 68-80
Delle Luche, C., Floccia, C., Granjon, L. and Nazzi, T., (2017). Infants' First Words are not Phonetically Specified: Own Name Recognition in British English-Learning 5-Month-Olds. Infancy. 22 (3), 362-388
Floccia, C., Keren-Portnoy, T., DePaolis, R., Duffy, H., Delle Luche, C., Durrant, S., White, L., Goslin, J. and Vihman, M., (2016). British English infants segment words only with exaggerated infant-directed speech stimuli. Cognition. 148, 1-9
Delle Luche, C., Durrant, S., Poltrock, S. and Floccia, C., (2015). A methodological investigation of the Intermodal Preferential Looking paradigm: Methods of analyses, picture selection and data rejection criteria. Infant Behavior and Development. 40, 151-172
DURRANT, S., DELLE LUCHE, C., CATTANI, A. and FLOCCIA, C., (2015). Monodialectal and multidialectal infants’ representation of familiar words. Journal of Child Language. 42 (2), 447-465
Delle Luche, C., Durrant, S., Floccia, C. and Plunkett, K., (2014). Implicit meaning in 18‐month‐old toddlers. Developmental Science. 17 (6), 948-955
Delle Luche, C., Poltrock, S., Goslin, J., New, B., Floccia, C. and Nazzi, T., (2014). Differential processing of consonants and vowels in the auditory modality: A cross-linguistic study. Journal of Memory and Language. 72, 1-15
FLOCCIA, C., NAZZI, T., DELLE LUCHE, C., POLTROCK, S. and GOSLIN, J., (2014). English-learning one- to two-year-olds do not show a consonant bias in word learning. Journal of Child Language. 41 (5), 1085-1114
Floccia, C., Delle Luche, C., Durrant, S., Butler, J. and Goslin, J., (2012). Parent or community: Where do 20-month-olds exposed to two accents acquire their representation of words?. Cognition. 124 (1), 95-100
Politzer, G., Van der Henst, J-B., Delle Luche, C. and Noveck, IA., (2006). The Interpretation of Classically Quantified Sentences: A Set-Theoretic Approach. Cognitive Science. 30 (4), 691-723
Books (1)
Floccia, C., Sambrook, TD., Delle Luche, CH., Kwok, R., Goslin, J., White, L., Cattani, A., Sullivan, E., Abbot-Smith, K., Krott, A., Mills, DL., Rowland, CF., Gervain, J. and Plunkett, K., (2018). Vocabulary of 2-year-olds learning English and an additional language: Norms and effects of linguistic distance. Wiley. 978-1-119-50789-5
Conferences (1)
White, L., Luche, CD. and Floccia, C., (2016). Five-month-old infants’ discrimination of unfamiliar languages does not accord with "rhythm class"
Grants and funding
2016
How does phonological distance impact the early bilingual lexicon
The British Academy
Phonological representations of regional accents in the child�s lexicon
Experimental Psychology Society
Contact
Academic support hours:
I am on research leave in the Autumn term 2023-2024. Normal Academic support hours will start again in January but email me if you want to get in touch.
