A comprehensive theory of child language acquisition requires an evidential base that is
representative of the typological diversity present in the world's 7000 or so languages …

Over the last few years, the number of corpora that can be used for language comparison
has dramatically increased. The corpora are so diverse in their structure, size and …

Caretakers tend to repeat themselves when speaking to children, either to clarify their
message or to redirect wandering attention. This repetition also appears to support …

This paper presents the second part of a guide for documenting and describing child
language, child-directed language and socialization patterns in diverse languages and …

This paper reports on an on-going project designed to collect comparable corpus data on
child language and child-directed language in under-researched languages. Despite a long …

A comprehensive theory of child language acquisition requires an evidential base that is
representative of the typological diversity present in the world's 7,000 or so languages …

The commentary amplifies Kidd and Garcia's call for increased attention to language
diversity in research on language acquisition by noting several implications of language …

Multilingual language models often perform unevenly across different languages due to
limited generalization capabilities for some languages. This issue is significant because of …

This commentary on Kidd and Garcia takes a language documentation perspective on
diversifying language acquisition research. Following a brief summary of relevant research …

How much do children know about using language by age 5? Normally-developing children
typically know how to convey their wants and needs, how to answer questions, say what …