The human superior temporal gyrus (STG) is critical for extracting meaningful linguistic
features from speech input. Local neural populations are tuned to acoustic-phonetic features …

Successful speech perception requires that listeners map the acoustic signal to linguistic
categories. These mappings are not only probabilistic, but change depending on the …

Infants differ substantially in their rates of language growth, and slow growth predicts later
academic difficulties. In this study, we explored how the amount of speech directed to infants …

Explicit Learning in the L2 Classroom offers a unique five-prong (theoretical, empirical,
methodological, pedagogical, and model building) approach to the issue of explicit learning …

A comprehensive overview of an interdisciplinary approach to robotics that takes direct
inspiration from the developmental and learning phenomena observed in children's …

This book offers an in-depth explanation of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the
methods necessary to implement it in the language classroom successfully. Combines a …

When we read or listen to language, we are faced with the challenge of inferring intended
messages from noisy input. This challenge is exacerbated by considerable variability …

Learners rely on a combination of experience-independent and experience-dependent
mechanisms to extract information from the environment. Language acquisition involves …

It is with renewed appreciation for the size of the task that I come to writing the present
chapter. The number of special issues of journals dedicated to im/politeness these days …

While usage-based approaches to language development enjoy considerable support from
computational studies, there have been few attempts to answer a key computational …