Infant research is hard. It is difficult, expensive, and time‐consuming to identify, recruit, and
test infants. As a result, ours is a field of small sample sizes. Many studies using infant …

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 …

Infants build knowledge by acting on the world. We conducted an ecologically grounded test
of an embodied learning hypothesis: that infants' active engagement with objects in the …

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 …

This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges
the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic …

The current study examines how gestural representations of motion events arise from
linguistic expressions in Farsi, as this language offers many unique characteristics; …

Accurate perception of emotional (facial) expressions is an essential social skill. It is
currently debated whether emotion categorization in infancy emerges in a “broad-to-narrow” …

To learn motion verbs, infants must be sensitive to the specific event features lexicalized in
their language. One event feature important for the acquisition of English motion verbs is the …

In the world, the manners and paths of motion events take place together, but in language,
these features are expressed separately. How do infants learn to process motion events in …