This review covers experimental approaches to sound-symbolism—from infants to adults,
and from Sapir's foundational studies to twenty-first century product naming. It synthesizes …

Highlights•Cognitive psychology and cultural psychology both examine the influence of
experience on human thought, but there has been scant communication between the two …

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 …

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 …

The intermodal preferential looking paradigm (IPLP) has proven to be a revolutionary
method for the examination of infants' emerging language knowledge. In the IPLP, infants' …

This second edition of Child Psychology reflects the increasingly sophisticated and varied
research methods used to examine the highly complex interactions contributing to children's …

Although very young children process ongoing language quickly and effortlessly, research
indicates that they continue to improve and mature in their language skills through …

Relational terms (eg, verbs and prepositions) are the cornerstone of language development,
bringing together two distinct fields: linguistic theory and infants' event processing. To …

The aim of the present study is twofold. One, we will show that Talmy's (1985, 1991, 2000)
motion typology that groups Russian and English together as satellite‐framed languages …

The domain of space presents interesting properties that can best illustrate the debate
concerning universal versus language-specific determinants on acquisition. In this context …