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Publications

	Alcock, Katherine Jane Rimba,K Newton,C R J C (in press). Early production of the passive in two Eastern Bantu languages First Language, , .
	Alcock, K J; Krawczyk, K; Connor, S; (2010). Oral and gestural motor abilities and early language - Talking with the mouth: ICIS. .
	Alcock, KJ Krawczyk, K (2010). Individual differences in language development: Relationship with motor skill at 21 months Developmental Science, 13 (5), 677-691.
	Alcock, KJ; Ngorosho, D; Deus, C; Jukes, MCH (2010). We don't have language at our house: Disentangling the relationship between phonological awareness, schooling, and literacy British Journal of Educational Psychology, 80 (1), 55-76.
	Nampijja, M.; Apule, B.; Lule, S.; Akurut, H.; Muhangi, L.; Elliott, A. M.; Alcock, K. J. (2010). Adaptation of Western measures of cognition for assessing 5-year-old semi-urban Ugandan children British Journal of Educational Psychology, 80 (1), 15-30.
	Prado, Elizabeth L.; Hartini, Sri; Rahmawati, Atik; Ismayani, Elfa; Hidayati, Astri; Hikmah, Nurul; Ullman, Michael T.; Shankar, Anuraj H.; Alcock, Katherine J. (2010). Test Selection, Adaptation, and Evaluation: Three Critical Steps to Assess Nutritional Influences on Child Development in Developing Countries British Journal of Educational Psychology, 80 (1), 31-53.
	Alcock, KJ (2009). The quick brown fox run over one lazy geese: Phonological and morphological processing of plurals in English Center for Research in Language Technical Report, 21(1), 3-21.
	Abubakar, A; Alcock, K; Holding, P (2008). Adapting Western Developmental Measures for Use in Resource Poor Settings: Methodological Issues Archives of Disease in Childhood, , .
	Alcock, K. J., Holding, P. A., Mung'ala Odera, V., & Newton, C. R. J. C. (2008). Constructing tests of cognitive abilities for schooled and unschooled children Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology , 39, 529-551.
	Alcock, K.J. & Ngorosho, D. (2007). Learning to spell and learning phonology: The spelling of nasal consonants in Kiswahili. Reading and Writing, 20, 643-670.
	Alcock, K (2006). The development of oral motor control and language. Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 11 (1), 1-8.
	Grigorenko, E. L., Sternberg, R. J., Jukes, M., Alcock, K., Lambo, J., Ngorosho, D., Nokes, C. & Bundy, D. A. (2006). Effects of antiparasitic treatment on dynamically and statically tested cognitive skills over time Journal Of Applied Developmental Psychology, 27, 499-526.
	Mung'ala-Odera, V., Meehan, R., Njuguna, P ; Mturi, N; Alcock, K.J. & Newton, C.R.J.C. (2006). Prevalence and risk factors of neurological disability and impairment in children living in rural Kenya. International Journal of Epidemiology, 35, 683-688.
	Alcock, K. J., Rimba, K., Tellaie, M., & Newton, C. R. J. C. (2005). Learning the passive in natural(istic) settings. : Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, 2005.
	Alcock,K J (2005). Literacy in Kiswahili. Chapter in Joshi,R.Malatesha, Aaron,P.G.: Handbook of orthography and literacy. Mahwah, NJ: LEA.
	Alcock, K.J. & Ngorosho, D. (2004). Interaction between phonological and grammatical processing in single word production in Kiswahili. Language and Speech, 47(1), 1-30.
	Mung'ala-Odera, V., Meehan, R., Njugana, P., Mturi, N., Alcock, K., Carter, J. A., & Newton, C. R. J. C. (2004). Validity and Reliability of the 'Ten Questions' Questionnaire for Detecting Moderate to Severe Neurological Impairment in Kenyan Children. Neuroepidemiology, 23, 67-74.
	Alcock, K.J. & Ngorosho, D. (2003). Learning to spell a regularly spelled language is not a trivial task - patterns of errors in Kiswahili. Reading and Writing, 16 (7), 635-666.
	Jukes, M.C.H., Nokes, C.A., Alcock, K.J., Lambo, J.K., Kihamia, C., Ngorosho, N., Mbise, A., Lorri, W., Yona, E., Mwanri, L., Grantham-McGregor, S.M., Baddeley, A.M., Hall, A., & Bundy, D.A.P (2002). Heavy schistosomiasis associated with poor short-term memory and slower reaction times in Tanzanian school children. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 7(2), 104-117.
	Alcock, K J and Bundy, D. A. P. (2001). The impact of infectious disease on cognitive development. Chapter in R. Sternberg and E Grigorenko: Environmental effects on cognitive abilities. Mahwah, NJ: LEA.
	May, J., Alcock, K. J., Robinson, L., & Mwita, C. (2001). A computerized test of speed of language comprehension unconfounded by literacy. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 15, 433-443.
	Alcock, K.J.; Nokes, K; Ngowi, F; Musabi, C; McGregor, S; Mbise, A; Mandali, R; Bundy, D; Baddeley, A (2000). The development of reading tests for use in a regularly spelt language. Applied Psycholinguistics , 21(4), 525-555.
	Alcock, K.J.; Passingham, R.E.; Watkins, K; Vargha-Khadem, F (2000). Oral dyspraxia in inherited speech and language impairment and acquired dysphasia. Brain and Language , 75(1), 17-33.
	Alcock, K.J.; Wade, D, Anslow, P &. Passingham, R.E. (2000). Pitch and timing abilities in adult left hemisphere dysphasic and right hemisphere damaged subjects. Brain and Language , 75(1), 47-65.
	Alcock, KJ; Passingham, R.E.; Watkins, K; Vargha-Khadem, (2000). Pitch and timing abilities in inherited speech and language impairment. Brain and Language, 75 (1), 34-46.
	Vargha-Khadem, F; Watkins, K.E.; Price, CJ; Ashburner, J; Alcock, K.J.; Connelly, A; Frackowiak, R.S.J.; Friston, K.J.; Pembrey, M.E.; Mishkin, M; Gadian, D.G.; Passingham, R.E. (1998). Neural basis of an inherited speech and language disorder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA , 95, .
	Vargha-Khadem, F; Watkins, K; Alcock, K.J.; Fletcher, P & Passingham, R.E. (1995). Praxic and nonverbal cognitive deficits in a large family with a genetically transmitted speech and language disorder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA , 92, 930-933.

Grants

• 2012 (for 30 months), Project Grant from ESRC.
  UK standardisation of Communicative Development Inventory - Words & Gestures
  with Caroline Rowland at Liverpool, Kerstin Meints at Lincoln.
  
• 2007 (for one year), small grant from Lancaster University.
  Variabilty in Child Language: the Child Language Survey
  with Kate Cain (Psychology), Andrew Hardie, Sebastian Hoffman (LAEL), Paul Rayson (Computing).
  More details about this grant can be found here.
  
• 2006 (for 1 year) from Allen Foundation.
  Developmental outcomes of maternal micronutrient supplementation at three years of age
  
  
• 2005 (for 1 year), Small grant from Nuffield Foundation.
  Tests of oral motor skills and language impairment
  
  
• 2004 (for 1 year), small grant from ESRC.
  Individual differences and the vocabulary burst
  
  
• 2004 (for two years) from NIH.
  Developing a Measure of Brain Insults In Kilifi District, Kenya
  with Penny Holding, Charles Newton (KEMRI CGMR, Kilifi, Kenya), Judith Waudo (Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya), Kim Espy (Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, USA).