COVID‐19 has modified numerous aspects of children's social environments. Many children
are now spoken to through a mask. There is little empirical evidence attesting to the effects …

Abstract Language processing encompasses a sophisticated interplay of phonological
(sound-based) and semantic (meaning-based) processes. This intricate interaction develops …

Preregistration, the act of specifying a research plan in advance, is becoming more common
in scientific research. Infant researchers contend with unique problems that might make …

Is the developing lexicon phonologically detailed or are representations underspecified?
Experimental results from toddlers suggest phonological specificity. By contrast, the …

Visual reaction times to target pictures after naming events are an informative measurement
in language acquisition research, because gaze shifts measured in looking-while-listening …

Late talkers are a heterogeneous group of children who experience delayed language
development in the absence of other known causes. Late talkers show delays in expressive …

To learn language, children must map variable input to categories such as phones and
words. How do children process variation and distinguish between variable pronunciations …

Meta‐analyses provide researchers with an overview of the body of evidence in a topic, with
quantified estimates of effect sizes and the role of moderators, and weighting studies …

Successful word recognition requires that listeners attend to differences that are phonemic in
the language while also remaining flexible to the variation introduced by different voices and …

Before they start to talk, infants learn the form and meaning of many common words. In the
present work, we investigated the nature of this word knowledge, testing the specificity of …