The view that humans comprise only two types of beings, women and men, a framework that
is sometimes referred to as the “gender binary,” played a profound role in shaping the …

A growing number of children and adolescents report having gender identities or
expressions that differ from their birth‐assigned gender or from social and cultural gender …

Iconicity, a resemblance between properties of linguistic form (both in spoken and signed
languages) and meaning, has traditionally been considered to be a marginal, irrelevant …

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 …

Many theories of early word learning begin with the uncertainty inherent to learning a word
from its co-occurrence with a visual scene. However, the relevant visual scene for infant …

Vocabulary differences early in development are highly predictive of later language learning
as well as achievement in school. Early word learning emerges in the context of tightly …

Long before we learn to talk, our expectations concerning novel members of a category are
shaped by our experience with already-encountered members. We expect, for example, that …

Neonates prefer human speech to other nonlinguistic auditory stimuli. However, it remains
an open question whether there are any conceptual consequences of words on object …

Recent studies reveal that naming has powerful conceptual consequences within the first
year of life. Naming distinct objects with the same word highlights commonalities among the …

How and when infants and young children begin to develop emotion categories is not yet
well understood. Research has largely treated the learning problem as one of identifying …