A data-driven exploration of how children's language learning varies across different
languages, providing both a theoretical framework and reference. The Wordbank Project …

Children's linguistic knowledge and the learning mechanisms by which they acquire it grow
substantially in infancy and toddlerhood, yet theories of word learning largely fail to …

Abstract The Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) has played a critical role
in research on child language development, particularly in characterizing the early language …

Recent theoretical work in developmental psychology suggests that humans are
predisposed to align their mental states with those of other individuals. One way this …

The linguistic input children receive has a massive and immediate effect on their language
acquisition. This fact makes it difficult to discover the biases that children bring to language …

This article presents a developmental pathway for the acquisition of morphosyntactic
variation. Although there is abundant evidence that morphosyntactic variation is pervasive …

Full-fledged grammatical article systems as attested in Germanic and Romance languages
are rather uncommon from a typological perspective. The frequency with which articles …

The key aim of this special issue is to make developmental theory proposals concrete
enough to evaluate with empirical data. With this in mind, I discuss proposals from the …

When confronted with novel problems, problem-solvers must decide whether to copy a
modeled solution or to explore their own unique solutions. While past work has established …

This paper uses a novel data-driven probabilistic approach to address the century-old Inner-
Outer hypothesis of Indo-Aryan. I develop a Bayesian hierarchical mixed-membership model …