Infants learn the forms of words by listening to the speech they hear. Though little is known
about the degree to which these forms are meaningful for young infants, the words still play …

An investigation of how children balance rules and exceptions when they learn languages.
All languages have exceptions alongside overarching rules and regularities. How does a …

Although it is generally accepted that phonological development is grounded in phonetic
learning, there is less agreement for the proposition supported here, that the first …

The remarkable way in which young children acquire language has long fascinated linguists
and developmental psychologists alike. Language is a skill that we have essentially …

This book provides an extensive overview of research into child production and perception.
It focuses primarily on the first two years of life because, for the majority of children, that …

The goal of this technical report on childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) was to assemble
information about this challenging disorder that would be useful for caregivers, speech …

Abstract “Radical” templatic phonology is a template-based approach to segmental
phonological representation. The central hypothesis is that the segmental phonological …

The interaction between prosodic and segmental aspects of infant representations for
speech was explored using the head-turn paradigm, with untrained everyday familiar words …

Researchers have long noted that children's grammatical morphemes are variably
produced, raising questions about when and how grammatical competence is acquired. This …

This investigation focuses on the development of intonation patterns in four Catalan-
speaking children and two Spanish-speaking children between 0; 11 and 2; 4. Pitch …