A new webinar on the power of reading

5 Nov 2025, 1-2pm

I’m excited to be giving a webinar for Tooled Up Education on the power of reading for children’s outcomes! I’ll be speaking to parents about why reading is so impactful and, importantly, how we can help children get the most out of their reading experience. [Read More]
Tags: impact, outreach, reading, children's books, corpus

CYP-LEX goes online!

Now available as an interactive online tool

The Children and Young People’s Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX) I developed is now available as an interactive website: https://cyp-lex.rastlelab.com/. This online platform allows you to explore the database by querying specific words or extracting words with particular characteristics. Simply enter the words you’d like to look up – or upload an... [Read More]
Tags: cyplex, lexical statistics, reading, children's books, corpus

New paper!

Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience

Read our new paper on behavioural and electrophysiological markers of integration of novel words into semantic memory - published in LCN open access! [Read More]
Tags: papers, research output, integration, semantic priming, EEG, word learning, Bayesian analysis

The Children and Young People's Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX)

What words do children encounter when they read for pleasure?

Our paper introducing CYP-LEX, a large-scale lexical database of books popular with children and young people in the UK, is finally out! It’s open access and free to download. Kathy and I also wrote a short and accessible blog post summarsing the main insights from this work. We are now... [Read More]
Tags: corpus linguistics, lexical database, reading, word frequency, children's books