Our understanding of the relationships between lexical and phonological development has
been enhanced in recent years by increased interest in this area from language scientists …

It is with renewed appreciation for the size of the task that I come to writing the present
chapter. The number of special issues of journals dedicated to im/politeness these days …

Adult production is influenced by the larger linguistic contexts in which words appear.
Children, like adults, hear words in recurring linguistic contexts, but little is known on the …

Purpose Children variably produce grammatical morphemes at early stages of development,
often omitting inflectional morphemes in obligatory contexts. This has typically been …

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 …

Purpose To document the lexical characteristics of neighborhood density (ND) and word
frequency (WF) in the lexicons of a large sample of English-speaking toddlers. Method …

Purpose To examine the role of phonotactic probabilities at the onset of language
development, in a new language (Dutch), while controlling for word position. Method Using …

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 …

A key omission from many accounts of children's early word learning is the linguistic
knowledge that the child has acquired up to the point when learning occurs. We simulate …