Humans differ in innumerable ways, with considerable variation observable at every level of
description, from the molecular to the social. Traditionally, linguistic and psycholinguistic …

New efforts are using head cameras and eye-trackers worn by infants to capture everyday
visual environments from the point of view of the infant learner. From this vantage point, the …

Starting around 6 to 9 months of age, children begin acquiring their first words, linking
spoken words to their visual counterparts. How much of this knowledge is learnable from …

Rapid progress in machine learning for natural language processing has the potential to
transform debates about how humans learn language. However, the learning environments …

Older children with online schooling requirements, unsurprisingly, were reported to have
increased screen time during the first COVID-19 lockdown in many countries. Here, we ask …

The ideal of scientific progress is that we accumulate measurements and integrate these into
theory, but recent discussion of replicability issues has cast doubt on whether psychological …

Objective To examine whether children who are deaf or hard of hearing who have hearing
parents can develop age-level vocabulary skills when they have early exposure to a sign …

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 …

Without explicit feedback, humans can rapidly learn the meaning of words. Children can
acquire a new word after just a few passive exposures, a process known as fast mapping …

NOW PUBLISHED BY PLURAL! This classic text now in its tenth edition and now available
from Plural Publishing, The Development of Language continues its focus on language …