In this article, I advocate for an enriched view of children's linguistic input, with the aim of
building sustainable and tangible links between theoretical models of language …

Many domains of inquiry in psychology are concerned with rich and complex phenomena. At
the same time, the field of psychology is grappling with how to improve research practices to …

Descriptive developmental research seeks to document, describe and analyze the
conditions under which infants and children live and learn. Here, we articulate how open …

Assessing infant carrying and holding (C/H), or physical infant-caregiver interaction, is
important for a wide range of contexts in development research. An automated detection and …

Why do infants learn some words earlier than others? Many theories of early word learning
focus on explaining how infants map labels onto concrete objects. However, words that are …

Neurocognitive and genetic approaches have made progress in understanding language-
music interaction in the adult brain. Although there is broad agreement that learning …

Experience‐dependent change pervades early human development. Though trajectories of
developmental change have been well charted in many domains, the episode‐to‐episode …

Recent advances in recording technology provide unique opportunities to observe children's
everyday speech environments using daylong audio recordings. A number of studies have …

ABSTRACT In August of 2022, the Anti-Racism and Equity Committee of the Society for
Music Perception and Cognition held a special session at the biennial meeting of the …

In this chapter, I examine how methods of environmental description shape the way that
researchers think about the environment and consequently its relation to behavior and …