Recent studies of adults have found evidence for consolidation effects in the acquisition of
novel words, but little is known about whether such effects are found developmentally. In two …

A crucial part of language development is learning how various social and contextual
language‐external factors constrain an utterance's meaning. This learning process is poorly …

Linguistics is experiencing a fundamental shift in the way it studies language as its object of
investigation. While traditional linguistics relied on the introspection of researchers and used …