This paper provides an overview of the features of caregiver input that facilitate language
learning across early childhood. We discuss three dimensions of input quality: interactive …

A central goal of modern generative grammar has been to discover invariant properties of
human languages that reflect “the innate schematism of mind that is applied to the data of …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech
in a nonnative language is a different experience. In this book, Anne Cutler argues that …

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 …

Infants' speech perception skills show a dual change towards the end of the first year of life.
Not only does non-native speech perception decline, as often shown, but native language …

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 …

Two studies investigated adults' use of prosodic emphasis to mark focused words in speech
to infants and adults. In Experiment 1, 18 mothers told a story to a 14-month-old infant and to …

Continuing the tradition of this series, which has become a standard reference work in
language acquisition, Volume 4 contains chapters on three additional languages/language …

In this article we define and illustrate sociophonetic variation within speech, highlighting
both its pervasiveness and also the relatively minor role it has played in the development of …