In 2007 and 2008, Yu and Smith published their seminal studies on cross-situational word
learning (CSWL) in adults and infants, showing that word-object-mappings can be acquired …

In the first few years of life children spend a good proportion of time sleeping as well as
acquiring the meanings of hundreds of words. There is now ample evidence of the effects of …

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

In this study, the authors examined the impact of a vocabulary intervention designed to
support vocabulary depth, or the building of semantic networks, in preschool children (n …

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 …

Learning new words is a difficult task. Children are able to resolve the ambiguity of the task
and map words to referents by tracking co-occurrence probabilities across multiple moments …

Purpose Variability in the input plays an important role in language learning. The current
study examined the role of object variability for new word learning by preschoolers with …

Adults often encounter difficulty perceiving and processing sounds of a second language
(L2). In order to acquire word-meaning mappings, learners need to determine what the …

Word learning is complicated by referential ambiguity–there are often multiple potential
targets for a newly-heard word. While typically developing (TD) children can accurately infer …

Human infants learn meanings for spoken words in complex interactions with other people,
but the exact learning mechanisms are unknown. Among researchers, a widely studied …