A developmental paradox is discussed: studies of infant processing of language and
language-like stimuli indicate considerable ability to abstract patterns over specific items …

Children learn most new words without direct teaching. Evidence for this comes primarily
from two sources. First, between the ages of 18 months and 18 years, children learn an …

If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective
languages? And if languages do not affect thought, why do bilinguals often perceive such …

A cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work on crosslinguistic influence, or
language transfer, this book is an authoritative account of transfer in second-language …

The chapters in this volume, along with the extensive list of frog-story studies in Appendix II,
provide a rich database for the exploration of particular questions of language use and …

The central focus of this text is language development as a field of basic research, but
applied issues are also considered. Chapter 1 provides an overview and history of the field …

The voluminous literature on linguistic relativity has concerned itself primarily with the
search for influences of particular languages on nonlinguistic cognition in situations in which …

This study investigated whether different lexicalization patterns of motion events in English
and Spanish predict how speakers of these languages perform in non-linguistic tasks. Using …

Languages vary strikingly in how they encode motion events. In some languages (eg
English), manner of motion is typically encoded within the verb, while direction of motion …

Languages differ in how they encode motion. When describing bounded motion, English
speakers typically use verbs that convey information about manner (eg, slide, skip, walk) …