Language is a fundamentally social endeavor. Pragmatics is the study of how speakers and
listeners use social reasoning to go beyond the literal meanings of words to interpret …

Vocabulary learning is deceptively hard, but toddlers often make it look easy. Prior theories
proposed that children's rapid acquisition of words is based on language‐specific …

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 …

Toddlers learn words in the context of speech from adult social partners. The present studies
quantitatively describe the temporal context of parent speech to toddlers about objects in …

Before formal education begins, children typically acquire a vocabulary of thousands of
words. This learning process requires the use of many different information sources in their …

Toddlers learn object names in sensory rich contexts. Many argue that this multisensory
experience facilitates learning. Here, we examine how toddlers' multisensory experience is …

Children show a remarkable degree of consistency in learning some words earlier than
others. What patterns of word usage predict variations among words in age of acquisition …

Connectives such as but are critical for building coherent discourse. They also express
meanings that do not fit neatly into the standard distinction between semantics and …

Infant language learning depends on the distribution of co‐occurrences within language–
between words and other words–and between language content and events in the world …

Although previous studies have found a link between the quantity and quality of child-
directed speech learners receive and their vocabulary development, no previous studies …