Children acquiring language must learn a variety of words mapping on to different kinds of
concepts. Typically, word learning accounts focus on how children strategically acquire …

Adjectives are a powerful tool for enriching vocabulary and developing conceptual
understanding. In early elementary and primary classrooms, across core and foundation …

In the face of unfamiliar language or objects, description is one cue people can use to learn
about both. Beyond narrowing potential referents to those that match a descriptor (eg,“tall”) …

Perspective‐taking, which is important for communication and social activities, can be
cultivated through joint actions, including musical activities in children. We examined how …

Adults readily coordinate on temporary pacts about how to refer to things in conversation.
Young children are also capable of forming pacts with peers given appropriate experimenter …

Caregivers' language input supports children's language development, and it is often tuned
to the child's current level of skill. Evidence suggests that parental input is tuned to …

Abstract This study examined 4‐and 5‐year‐olds' incremental interpretation of size
adjectives, focusing on whether contrastive inferences are modulated by speaker behavior …

Combining adjective meaning with the modified noun is particularly challenging for children
under three years. Previous research suggests that in processing noun-adjective phrases …

Antonymy is a lexical-semantic relation of opposition which plays a central role in the
organization of the mental lexicon and discourse (Cruse 1988; Dees 1962; 1964; Jones …

Die Forschung zum kindlichen Wortlernen hat in den letzten Jahren aufgezeigt, dass der
Erwerb eines neuen Wortes durch Prozessualität gekennzeichnet ist. Ein aktuelles …