This article offers a developmental theory of language and the neural systems that lead to
and subserve linguistic capabilities. Early perceptual experience and discontinuities in …

Abstract “Late talkers” is a term used in the scientific field of atypical language development
to describe toddlers who exhibit delay in expressive language skills, although they do have …

The landmark reference in the field, completely updated: a comprehensive treatment of a
disorder that is more prevalent than autism. Children with specific language impairment …

A review of the literature on quantifying vocabulary richness gives the sense of a quest for
the Holy Grail–the search for a single, all-embracing, but elusive measure of the quality of …

Using online measures of familiar word recognition in the looking‐while‐listening
procedure, this prospective longitudinal study revealed robust links between processing …

Purpose The primary objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of late
language emergence (LLE) and to investigate the predictive status of maternal, family, and …

This study explores the effects of training parents to administer focused stimulation
intervention to teach specific target words to their toddlers with expressive vocabulary …

This study examines sources of individual variation in child vocabulary competence in the
context of a multivariate developmental ecological model. Maternal sociodemographic …

Some researchers argue that the ability to acquire and use language is largely the result of
innate predispositions that are specific to language (the INNATENESS HYPOTHESIS). If the …

This study evaluated the extent to which measures of lexical diversity (type-token ratio and
number of different words produced) differentiated children with specific language …