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 …

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 …

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 …

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. The roles of partner modeling, alignment and feedback
in so-called ‘simplified registers’ Page 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company Designing …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Naturalistic longitudinal recordings of child development promise to reveal fresh
perspectives on fundamental questions of language acquisition. In a pilot effort, we have …