Young children's language experiences and language outcomes are highly variable.
Research in recent decades has focused on understanding the extent to which family …

Various aspects of motherese also known as infant-directed speech (IDS) have been
studied for many years. As it is a widespread phenomenon, it is suspected to play some …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

This paper argues for the need to recognize a new order of syntactic phenomena, and for a
theory of syntax capable of addressing it. Dialogic syntax encompasses the linguistic …

Although the power of statistical learning (SL) in explaining a wide range of linguistic
functions is gaining increasing support, relatively little research has focused on this …

Considerable research indicates that learners are sensitive to probabilistic structure in
laboratory studies of artificial language learning. However, the artificial and simplified nature …

Language plays a pivotal role in the evolution of human culture, yet the evolution of the
capacity for language—uniquely within the hominin lineage—remains little understood …

Little is known about the brain mechanisms involved in word learning during infancy and in
second language acquisition and about the way these new words become stable …

Young children who hear more child-directed speech (CDS) tend to have larger
vocabularies later in childhood, but the specific characteristics of CDS underlying this link …

We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate the time course and distribution of
brain activity while adults performed (1) a sequential learning task involving complex …