Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain how young children solve the puzzle of
mapping spoken words to their meanings. The influential syntactic bootstrapping theory …

In the second year of life, infants begin to rapidly acquire the lexicon of their native
language. A key learning mechanism underlying this acceleration is syntactic bootstrapping …

The ability to rapidly recognize words and link them to referents is central to children's early
language development. This ability, often called word recognition in the developmental …

Whether young infants can exploit sociopragmatic information to interpret new words is a
matter of debate. Based on findings and theories from the action interpretation literature, we …

Children have an early ability to learn and comprehend words, a skill that develops as they
age. A critical question remains regarding what drives this development. Maturation-based …

In this commentary, we suggest that infancy researchers should carefully consider validity
when taking steps to improve reliability. Zooming in to focus on looking‐time methods, we …

Very preterm children (born< 32 gestational weeks) are at risk for weak language skills,
including delayed lexical processing and development. Because preterm children show …

How do infants become word meaning experts? This registered report investigated the
structure of infants' early lexical representations by manipulating the typicality of exemplars …

Children have an early ability to learn and comprehend words, a skill that develops as they
age. A critical question remains regarding what drives this development. Maturation-based …

Developmental theories of word learning seek to chart early linguistic milestones and aim to
explain how children acquire words. Verbs are an important aspect of word learning …