Although children typically comprehend the links between specific forms and their meanings
before they produce the forms themselves, the opposite pattern also occurs. The nature of …

What is the relation between language and thought? Specifically, how do linguistic and
conceptual representations make contact during language learning? This paper addresses …

Evidentiality in language marks how information contained in a sentence was acquired. For
instance, Turkish has two past-tense morphemes that mark whether access to information …

This paper is concerned with the acquisition of the semantics and pragmatics of evidential
markers in Turkish. Evidential markers encode the speaker's source for the information …

Evidentials are grammatical elements such as affixes and particles indicating the source of
knowledge. We provide an overview of this grammatical category and consider three …

How do children learn the evidential system of their language? The primary goal of this
chapter is to summarize existing research on this topic. Its secondary goal is to position this …

This paper investigates six-to nine-year-old children's acquisition of evidentiality. In two
minimally different tasks we assess whether children can be made to use a particular source …

We describe the nature of the evidential system in Tibetan and consider the challenges that
any evidential system presents to language acquisition. We present data from Tibetan …

Recent research has indicated that conceptual development in a specific domain may not be
independent of the way it is mapped linguistically. We explore this claim in the semantic …

The perennial fascination with the relationship between language and thought has
generated much research across various disciplines. In recent years, commentators have …