Humans communicate with small children in unusual and highly conspicuous ways (child-
directed communication (CDC)), which enhance social bonding and facilitate language …

Objective The scientific study of the perception of spoken language has been an exciting,
prolific, and productive area of research for more than 50 yr. We have learned much about …

Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech
in a nonnative language is a different experience. In this book, Anne Cutler argues that …

This study explores the power of intonation to convey meaningful information about the
communicative intent of the speaker in speech addressed to preverbal infants and in speech …

Two studies investigated adults' use of prosodic emphasis to mark focused words in speech
to infants and adults. In Experiment 1, 18 mothers told a story to a 14-month-old infant and to …

How do children learn their first words? The field of language development has been
polarized by responses to this question. Explanations range from constraints/principles …

Continuing the tradition of this series, which has become a standard reference work in
language acquisition, Volume 4 contains chapters on three additional languages/language …

In Chapters 1 and 2, I made the claim that developing an explanatory theory of SLA will
necessarily involve finding a way to link a theory of grammar to theories of perception …

Infant-directed maternal speech is an important component of infants' linguistic input.
However, speech from other speakers and speech directed to others constitute a large …

Most theories of language acquisition implicitly assume that the language learner is able to
arrive at a segmentation of speech into clausal units. The present studies employed a …