An early achievement in language is carving a variable acoustic space into categories. The
canonical story is that infants accomplish this by the second year, when only unsupervised …

Spoken language unfolds over time. Consequently, there are brief periods of ambiguity,
when incomplete input can match many possible words. Typical listeners solve this problem …

Abstract The Visual World Paradigm (VWP) is a powerful experimental paradigm for
language research. Listeners respond to speech in a “visual world” containing potential …

The development of the ability to categorize speech sounds is often viewed as occurring
primarily during infancy via perceptual learning mechanisms. However, a number of studies …

Words are fundamental to language, linking sound, articulation, and spelling to meaning
and syntax; and lexical deficits are core to communicative disorders. Work in language …

This study investigated the developmental time course of spoken word recognition in older
children using eye tracking to assess how the real-time processing dynamics of word …

Lexical competition is a hallmark of proficient, automatic word recognition. Previous
research suggests that there is a delay before a new spoken word becomes engaged in this …

Eight to 11% of children have a clinical disorder in oral language (Developmental Language
Disorder, DLD). Language deficits in DLD can affect all levels of language and persist …

Lexical competition that occurs as speech unfolds is a hallmark of adult oral language
comprehension crucial to rapid incremental speech processing. This study used pause …

Efficient word recognition depends on the ability to overcome competition from overlapping
words. The nature of the overlap depends on the input modality: spoken words have …