Considerable research indicates that learners are sensitive to probabilistic structure in
laboratory studies of artificial language learning. However, the artificial and simplified nature …

Statistical learning is a key concept in our understanding of language acquisition. Ample
work has highlighted its role in numerous linguistic functions—yet statistical learning is not a …

Now in its third edition, Teaching and Researching Reading charts the field of reading (first
and second language) systematically and coherently for the benefit of language teaching …

A Map to the Magic of Reading Stop for a moment and wonder: what's happening in your
brain right now—as you read this paragraph? How much do you know about the …

Exposure to faces is known to shape and change the face processing system; however, no
study has yet documented infants' natural daily first‐hand exposure to faces. One‐and three …

Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) served as a test case for determining
the role of extant vocabulary knowledge, endogenous attention, and phonological working …

Word-object co-occurrence statistics are a powerful information source for vocabulary
learning, but there is considerable debate about how learners actually use them. While …

Statistical learning is a fundamental component of language acquisition, yet to date,
relatively few studies have examined whether these abilities differ in bilinguals. In the …

This second edition of Child Psychology reflects the increasingly sophisticated and varied
research methods used to examine the highly complex interactions contributing to children's …

Vocabulary learning is deceptively hard, but toddlers often make it look easy. Prior theories
proposed that children's rapid acquisition of words is based on language‐specific …