Children are able to resolve the referential ambiguity of learning new words by tracking co-
occurrence probabilities across moments in time, a behavior termed cross-situational word …

High frequency words have been suggested to benefit both speech segmentation and
grammatical categorization of the words around them. Despite utilizing similar information …

Cross‐situational word learning (XSWL) tasks present multiple words and candidate
referents within a learning trial such that word–referent pairings can be inferred only across …

Word learning happens in everyday contexts with many words and many potential referents
for those words in view at the same time. It is challenging for young learners to find the …

Children learning language in multilingual settings have to learn that objects take different
labels within each different language to which they are exposed. Previous research has …

One powerful way children can learn word meanings is via cross-situational learning, the
ability to discern consistent word-referent mappings from a series of ambiguous scenes and …

Fifty years ago, doing language development research typically meant doing diary studies
(ie, studying orthographic transcriptions of children's language productions, often recorded …

[eng] This dissertation was written to answer some questions about the different roles played
by memory in school-age Catalan-Spanish children with specific language impairment (SLI) …