The purpose of this study was to explore how 2-year-old children manage the relationship
between phonetic production and production of word combinations in their spontaneous …

Purpose This study examines the influence of word frequency, phonological neighborhood
density (PND), age of acquisition (AoA), and phonotactic probability on production variability …

Researchers frequently examine the development of the single-word lexicon in the absence
of phonetic data. Yet a large body of literature demonstrates relationships between the …

This study examined a potential lexicality advantage in young children's early speech
production: do children produce sound sequences less accurately in nonwords than real …

Previous research has rarely compared the contributions of different underlying abilities to
phonological acquisition. In this study, the auditory-visual speech perception, oro-motor and …

Toddlers in the lowest tenth percentile for lexical production, based on parental report (late
talkers), were compared with age-and language-matched controls on measures of phonetic …

Attempts to measure phonological acquisition have largely focused on segments, with less
effort made to examine whole-word productions. This article proposes four measures …

Traditional theoretical approaches to the study of child language tend to isolate individual
areas of language knowledge and often ignore important interactions between different …

The current study attempts to differentiate effects of phonotactic probability (ie the likelihood
of occurrence of a sound sequence), neighbourhood density (ie the number of …

Only one explanation of human language ontogeny fully accounts for over a decade of
findings in my laboratory concerning signing and speaking children's use of early lexical and …