Conventional memory theory proposes that the hippocampus is initially responsible for
encoding new information, before this responsibility is gradually transferred to the neocortex …

The semantic bootstrapping hypothesis proposes that children acquire their native language
through exposure to sentences of the language paired with structured representations of …

Abstract Words are the essence of communication: They are the building blocks of any
language. Learning the meaning of words is thus one of the most important aspects of …

Targeted or universal pre-K? Direct instruction or learning through play? These and other
debates are heating up as more young children across the country gain access to pre-K …

We tested the effects of teaching reading skills through US history content for 38 eighth-
grade poor readers whose reading ability ranged from second-to fourth-grade levels. Half of …

In order to learn the mappings from words to referents, children must integrate co‐
occurrence information across individually ambiguous pairs of scenes and utterances, a …

We examine the benefits of visual context in training neural language models to perform
next-word prediction. A multi-modal neural architecture is introduced that outperform its …

In this paper we make one major point: that Roma children in Europe need to be tested in
their mother tongue before school placement. Roma children are in a particularly perilous …

Children's tendency to associate novel words with novel referents has been taken to reflect a
bias toward mutual exclusivity. This tendency may be advantageous both as (1) an ad-hoc …

According to usage‐based approaches to language acquisition, linguistic knowledge is
represented in the form of constructions—form‐meaning pairings—at multiple levels of …