Remembering new words: Integrating early memory development into word learning

EH Wojcik - Frontiers in psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
In order to successfully acquire a new word, young children must learn the correct
associations between labels and their referents. For decades, word-learning researchers …

Input and first language acquisition: Evaluating the role of frequency

E Lieven - Lingua, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the relationship between the frequency of morphological, lexical and
syntactic forms in the input and children's language acquisition. The problem of obtaining …

The ecology of prelinguistic vocal learning: Parents simplify the structure of their speech in response to babbling

SL Elmlinger, JA Schwade, MH Goldstein - Journal of child language, 2019 - cambridge.org
What is the function of babbling in language learning? We examined the structure of
parental speech as a function of contingency on infants' non-cry prelinguistic vocalizations …

Let's talk about emotions: The development of children's emotion vocabulary from 4 to 11 years of age

G Grosse, B Streubel, C Gunzenhauser, H Saalbach - Affective Science, 2021 - Springer
Learning to use language in an adult-like way is a long-lasting process. This may
particularly apply to complex conceptual domains such as emotions. The present study …

Designing speech for a recipient

K Fischer - 2016 - torrossa.com
Designing Speech for a Recipient. The roles of partner modeling, alignment and feedback
in so-called ‘simplified registers’ Page 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company Designing …

Easy words: Reference resolution in a malevolent referent world

LR Gleitman, JC Trueswell - Topics in cognitive science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This article describes early stages in the acquisition of a first vocabulary by infants and
young children. It distinguishes two major stages, the first of which operates by a stand …

How does maternal education influence the linguistic environment supporting bilingual language development in child second language learners of English?

T Sorenson Duncan, J Paradis - International Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims: In monolingual situations, mothers with higher levels of education are more likely to
provide their children with enriched linguistic input. However, in bilingual situations, the …

Turn-taking, timing, and planning in early language acquisition

M Casillas, SC Bobb, EV Clark - Journal of child language, 2016 - cambridge.org
Young children answer questions with longer delays than adults do, and they don't reach
typical adult response times until several years later. We hypothesized that this prolonged …

Parents fine-tune their speech to children's vocabulary knowledge

A Leung, A Tunkel, D Yurovsky - Psychological Science, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Young children learn language at an incredible rate. Although children come prepared with
powerful statistical-learning mechanisms, the statistics they encounter are also prepared for …

New horizons in the study of child language acquisition

D Roy - 2009 - dspace.mit.edu
Naturalistic longitudinal recordings of child development promise to reveal fresh
perspectives on fundamental questions of language acquisition. In a pilot effort, we have …