Modelling the dynamics of children's syntax acquisition

Professor Julian Mark Pine | Psychology | 01 July 2002

How do children learn the correct way to use syntactic units such as verbs and nouns? How do they learn when a subject is necessary and when it is not? These questions are critical to an understanding of language acquisition, and, to answer them, we ...

Sectoral transformation and labour market flows in the european union and united states

Professor David Greenaway | Economics | 01 January 2000

Over the past twenty years there have been fundamental changes in patterns of employment in the oecd, as between manufacturing and services, part-time and full-time workers, male and female employment and skilled and unskilled labour. The ability of ...

The core executive and the policy process in spain: formulation co-ordination and implementation

Prof Paul Heywood | Political Science and International Relations | 01 January 1997

This project seeks to analyse the role of the core executive in the spanish policy process. The research will focus on three key questions: what is the composition of the core executive in spain in terms of personnel and structural organisation; how ...

Datum transformations and data intergration in a gis environment

Dr Dodson | Human Geography | 01 May 1991

The acquisition of multi-word structures: an integrated framework

Professor Zoltan Dornyei | Linguistics | 01 July 2001

The project investigates the acquisition of multi-word structures in a second language over a period of 16 months. A key aspect of the project is setting up an integrated interdisciplinary framework that makes it possible to explore how combinations ...

The impact of bargaining processes and strategies on the outcomes of workplace restructuring

Professor Nicolas Bacon | Management and Business Studies | 01 September 2001

The purpose of this research is to examine the effects upon a range of key outcomes measures of different bargaining processes between management and unions for introducing new working practices. The project will study the introduction of teamworking ...

Past present and future innovations in uk management control: a critical examination of identity power and trust

Professor David Knights | Management and Business Studies | 01 January 1998

Application abstract: within the field of management innovation a pattern of successive and repetitive cycles is apparent, as each new panacea is eagerly adopted and previous ideas discarded. Whilst many of these innovat ...

Entrepreneurial behaviour among general practitioners

Prof David Whynes | Management and Business Studies | 01 October 1994

Application abstract: the restructuring of the national health service in 1990 - the 1990 nhs act and the reformed general practitioner contract - was intended to engender changes in behaviour in all agencies responsible for health care delivery. The ...

Identifying and remembering faces

Professor Vicki Bruce | 01 July 1983

The research consists of experimental studies designed to clarify our understanding of how familiar faces are identified and remembered. A functional model of face recognition will be developed and tested. The planned studies fall into three groups. ...

Gender language and social interaction in divorce mediation

Socio-Legal Studies | 01 May 1994

Application abstract: for several years now, there has been a lively debate between practitioners, academic lawyers and social scientists, and policy makers about whether the use of mediation in divorce empowers or disadvantages women. Some people ar ...