Words are fundamental to language, linking sound, articulation, and spelling to meaning
and syntax; and lexical deficits are core to communicative disorders. Work in language …

Second language (L2) learners must not only acquire L2 knowledge (ie vocabulary and
grammar), but they must also rapidly access this knowledge. In monolinguals, efficient …

Prior research suggests that the development of speech perception and word recognition
stabilises in early childhood. However, recent work suggests that development of these …

Objectives: To evaluate the subconscious knowledge of between-word phonological
similarities in children with cochlear implants as compared with children with typical hearing …

Children who are born profoundly deaf and use cochlear implants (CIs) exhibit reading
delays compared to their normal hearing peers. This could be because prelingually deaf CI …

An early achievement in language acquisition is carving up a variable acoustic space into
linguistic categories. The canonical story is that infants accomplish this in the first years …