This chapter studies the bidirectional causal interactions between curiosity and learning and
discusses how understanding these interactions can be leveraged in educational …

Purpose This review summarizes research on disorders of speech production in Down
syndrome (DS) for the purposes of informing clinical services and guiding future research …

Purpose This research provided a first-generation standardization of automated language
environment estimates, validated these estimates against standard language assessments …

When infants and adults communicate, they exchange social signals of availability and
communicative intention such as eye gaze. Previous research indicates that when …

Behavioral scientists–including those in psychology, infant and child development,
education, animal behavior, marketing and usability studies–use many methods to measure …

This bestselling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of
language. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Yule presents information in bite …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

The mechanisms underlying the acquisition of speech-production ability in human infancy
are not well understood. We tracked 4–12-mo-old English-learning infants' and adults' eye …

We analyzed the microstructure of child-adult interaction during naturalistic, daylong,
automatically labeled audio recordings (13,836 hr total) of children (8-to 48-month-olds) with …

Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This comprehensive
textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak those languages. It brings …