Within the subfields of linguistics, traditional approaches tend to examine different
phenomena in isolation. As Stoel-Gammon (this issue) correctly states, there is little …

Converging findings from English, Mandarin, and other languages suggest that observed
“universals” may be algorithmic. First, computational principles behind recently developed …

Crianças com atraso de desenvolvimento das funções linguísticas podem futuramente
apresentar dificuldades de leitura e escrita. Os problemas sociais podem agravar ainda …

One of the most important tasks for language learning children is the identification of the
grammatical category to which words belong. This is essential in order to be able to form …

This thesis addresses computational modeling of early language acquisition using statistical
learning mechanisms. There is a constantly increasing amount of evidence from …

This is an exciting time to be studying language development, as is well illustrated in the
collection of papers for this special section on core computational principles of language …

Probabilistically cued co-occurrence relationships between word categories are common in
natural languages but difficult to acquire. For example, in English, determiner-noun and …

Fragile X syndrome is the leading inherited cause of intellectual disability. Most boys with
fragile X syndrome have impaired cognition and language deficits, with significant within …

A crucial skill in acquiring language is the ability to find words in fluent speech. This is
difficult, as words are often presented without explicit boundaries. Despite this challenge …

Existing regimes on training Japanese learners of English to acquire the nonnative
contrast/l/and/r/in English focus on having the learners attend to differences in acoustics …