Lexical skills are a crucial component of language comprehension and production. This
paper reviews evidence for lexical-level deficits in children and young people with …

Why do children learn some words earlier than others? The order in which words are
acquired can provide clues about the mechanisms of word learning. In a large-scale corpus …

Early language delay (ELD) is a warning sign that may presage the presence of a later
language impairment (LI). In order to allow more targeted identification and earlier …

It has been demonstrated that statistical learning, or the ability to use statistical information to
learn the structure of one's environment, plays a role in young children's acquisition of …

To evaluate which features of spoken language aid infant word learning, a corpus of infant‐
directed speech (MR Brent & JM Siskind, 2001) was characterized on several linguistic …

Purpose To explore the efficacy of a word learning intervention for late-talking toddlers that
is based on principles of cross-situational statistical learning. Methods Four late-talking …

Children with dyslexia and/or specific language impairment have marked deficits in
phonological processing, putting them at an increased risk for reading deficits. The current …

Why do children learn some words earlier than others? Regularities and differences in the
age of acquisition for words across languages yield insights regarding the mechanisms …

Child-directed speech has long been known to influence children's vocabulary learning.
However, while we know that caregiver utterances differ from those directed at adults in …

We explored how phonological network structure influences the age of words' first
appearance in children's (14–50 months) speech, using a large, longitudinal corpus of …