Traditionally, acquisition of syntactic knowledge and the development of sentence
comprehension behaviors have been treated as separate disciplines. This article reviews a …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

In this review, we summarize studies investigating comprehension of three core grammatical
structures (Subject-Verb-Object word order, grammatical aspect and wh-questions) in …

The contributions of mothers' and children's oral language to children's school readiness
were longitudinally examined among 75 low-income mothers and children. When children …

The human ability to produce and understand an indefinite number of sentences is driven by
syntax, a cognitive system that can combine a finite number of primitive linguistic elements to …

Children use syntax to learn verbs, in a process known as syntactic bootstrapping. The
structure‐mapping account proposes that syntactic bootstrapping begins with a universal …

Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) rarely produce wh‐questions (eg “What hit
the book?”) in naturalistic speech. It is unclear if this is due to social–pragmatic difficulties, or …

Research on the effects of Direct Instruction (DI) among students with Autism Spectrum
Disorder (ASD) has only recently emerged. A benefit of DI is that it can be implemented with …

Bilingual children demonstrate varying levels of proficiency in each of the two languages to
which they are exposed. Even though it is widely acknowledged that bilingual children are …

Relative clauses have been extensively studied in language acquisition due to their
complex structure and the apparent difficulty children have with them. Their study has been …