The intermodal preferential looking paradigm (IPLP) has proven to be a revolutionary
method for the examination of infants' emerging language knowledge. In the IPLP, infants' …

This second edition of Child Psychology reflects the increasingly sophisticated and varied
research methods used to examine the highly complex interactions contributing to children's …

The distinctions between red and yellow or arm and hand may seem self-evident to English
speakers, but they are not: Languages differ in the named distinctions they make. To help …

To study concepts, cognitive scientists need to be able to identify them. The prevailing
assumption has been that general-purpose, nonlinguistic concepts are revealed by words …

To learn motion verbs, infants must be sensitive to the specific event features lexicalized in
their language. One event feature important for the acquisition of English motion verbs is the …

Knowledge of words and knowledge of the world must somehow be linked. Words evoke
knowledge about the world, and thoughts about the world are conveyed through words. The …

To learn relational terms such as verbs and prepositions, children must first dissect and
process dynamic event components. This paper investigates the way in which 8-to 14-month …

In this paper we report a large-scale developmental study of early productive vocabulary
acquisition by 928 Chinese-speaking children aged between 1; 0 and 2; 6, using the Early …

Die Entwicklung in der Kindheit ist geprägt durch eine Fülle faszinierender Veränderungen.
Wie Kinder die Welt wahrnehmen und mit ihr interagieren, wie sie über sie denken und …

The aim of this chapter is to use the pair situation/action-schema to analyze the development
of the representational meanings of whole and rational numbers. Numbers are conventional …