Speech categorization develops slowly through adolescence.

B McMurray, A Danelz, H Rigler… - Developmental …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
The development of the ability to categorize speech sounds is often viewed as occurring
primarily during infancy via perceptual learning mechanisms. However, a number of studies …

Too much of a good thing: How novelty biases and vocabulary influence known and novel referent selection in 18‐month‐old children and associative learning …

SC Kucker, B McMurray, LK Samuelson - Cognitive science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying the referent of novel words is a complex process that young children do with
relative ease. When given multiple objects along with a novel word, children select the most …

Prereaders' eye movements during shared storybook reading are language-mediated but not predictive

SG Luke, A Asplund - Visual Cognition, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
When viewing a visual scene, eye movements are often language-mediated: people look at
objects as those objects are named. Eye movements can even reflect predictive language …

Processing intransitive verbs: How do children differ from adults?

L Koring, P Mak, I Mulders… - Language Learning and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Previous studies have demonstrated that, for adults, differences between unaccusative
verbs (eg,“fall”) and unergative verbs (eg,“dance”) lead to a difference in processing …