This review article presents evidence for the claim that frequency effects are pervasive in
children's first language acquisition, and hence constitute a phenomenon that any …

Our understanding of the relationships between lexical and phonological development has
been enhanced in recent years by increased interest in this area from language scientists …

A data-driven exploration of how children's language learning varies across different
languages, providing both a theoretical framework and reference. The Wordbank Project …

Amid growing controversy about the oft‐cited “30‐million‐word gap,” this investigation uses
language data from five American communities across the socioeconomic spectrum to test …

Describes patterns of general communication development and of English specificity,
emphasizing individual patterns. This edition devotes more attention to individual …

Children learn words through an accumulation of interactions grounded in context. Although
many factors in the learning environment have been shown to contribute to word learning in …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to
support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE …

Abstract Keuleers, Stevens, Mandera, and Brysbaert (2015) presented a new variable, word
prevalence, defined as word knowledge in the population. Some words are known to more …

Previous studies demonstrated that statistical properties of adult generated free associates
predict the order of early noun learning. We investigate an explanation for this phenomenon …

Corpus linguistics is one of the fastest‐growing methodologies in contemporary linguistics.
In a conversational format, this article answers a few questions that corpus linguists regularly …