Recent research using both naturalistic and experimental methods has found that the vast
majority of young children's early language is organized around concrete, item-based …

Akhtar [Akhtar, N.(1999). Acquiring basic word order: Evidence for data-driven learning of
syntactic structure. Journal of Child Language, 26, 339–356] taught children novel verbs in …

How do children achieve adult grammatical competence? How do they induce syntactical
rules from the bewildering linguistic input that surrounds them? The major debates in …

This study investigated the extent to which the nature of verb input accounts for the order in
which children acquire verbs. We assessed the nature of verb input using a combined …

Most research on children's lexical development has focused on their acquisition of names
for concrete objects. This is the first edited volume to focus specifically on how children …

Two‐year‐olds use the sentence structures verbs appear in—subcategorization frames—to
guide verb learning. This is syntactic bootstrapping. This study probed the developmental …

The abstractness of children's early syntactic representations has been questioned in the
recent acquisition literature. While some research has suggested that children's knowledge …

Existing work on the acquisition of syntax has been concerned mainly with the early stages
of syntactic development. In the present study we examine later syntactic development in …

Four experiments used the head-turn preference procedure to assess whether infants could
extract and remember information from auditory strings produced by a miniature artificial …

The last decade has witnessed unparalleled research on the study of early verb learning.
Rather than projecting a coherent story of how children learn their first verbs, however, the …