Spoken language unfolds over time. Consequently, there are brief periods of ambiguity,
when incomplete input can match many possible words. Typical listeners solve this problem …

This study investigated the developmental time course of spoken word recognition in older
children using eye tracking to assess how the real-time processing dynamics of word …

Words are fundamental to language, linking sound, articulation, and spelling to meaning
and syntax; and lexical deficits are core to communicative disorders. Work in language …

Word recognition is a gateway to language, linking sound to meaning. Prior work has
characterized its cognitive mechanisms as a form of competition between similar-sounding …

Eight to 11% of children have a clinical disorder in oral language (Developmental Language
Disorder, DLD). Language deficits in DLD can affect all levels of language and persist …

Classic psycholinguistics seeks universal language mechanisms for all people,
emphasizing the “modal” listener: hearing, neurotypical, monolingual, and young adults …

Objectives: Work in normal-hearing (NH) adults suggests that spoken language processing
involves coping with ambiguity. Even a clearly spoken word contains brief periods of …

Word recognition is a gateway to language whose cognitive mechanisms are well
understood in typical listeners. However, cognitive science has not identified the …

Word recognition is a gateway to language, linking sound to meaning. Prior work suggests it
emerges from competition between similar-sounding words. However, the dimensions along …

Design The Growing Words Project is a longitudinal project examining language and
reading development in elementary school-age children. This accelerated longitudinal …