The goal of this article is to make the case for a radical exemplar account of child language
acquisition, under which unwitnessed forms are produced and comprehended by on-the-fly …

This book provides an extensive overview of research into child production and perception.
It focuses primarily on the first two years of life because, for the majority of children, that …

Purpose: The purpose of this article was to investigate the relationship between speech
error variability and phonological awareness. Method: This article begins with a narrative …

Iconic mappings between words and their meanings are far more prevalent than once
estimated and seem to support children's acquisition of new words, spoken or signed. We …

Over the course of the first 2 years of life, infants are learning a great deal about the sound
system of their native language. Acquiring the sound system requires the infant to learn …

We heartily endorse the overarching proposal of Ambridge, Kidd, Rowland, and Theakston
(this issue) that frequency effects are ubiquitous and that models of first language acquisition …

The development of phonological awareness, the knowledge of the structural
combinatoriality of a language, has been widely investigated in relation to reading (dis) …

The central assertion in this volume is that the young child uses general skills, scaffolded by
adults, to acquire the complex knowledge of sound patterns and the goal-directed behaviors …

Introduction The current work presents a framework of motoric complexity where stimuli differ
according to movement elements across a sound sequence (ie, consonant transitions and …

Purpose Network science has been a valuable tool in language research for investigating
relationships between complex linguistic elements but has not yet been applied to sound …