Linking language and cognition in infancy

DR Perszyk, SR Waxman - Annual review of psychology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Human language, a signature of our species, derives its power from its links to human
cognition. For centuries, scholars have been captivated by this link between language and …

Are nouns learned before verbs? Infants provide insight into a long‐standing debate

S Waxman, X Fu, S Arunachalam… - Child development …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
For decades, a spirited debate has existed over whether infants' remarkable capacity to
learn words is shaped primarily by universal features of human language or by specific …

[图书][B] Variability and consistency in early language learning: The Wordbank project

MC Frank, M Braginsky, D Yurovsky, VA Marchman - 2021 - books.google.com
A data-driven exploration of how children's language learning varies across different
languages, providing both a theoretical framework and reference. The Wordbank Project …

Wordbank: An open repository for developmental vocabulary data

MC Frank, M Braginsky, D Yurovsky… - Journal of child …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) are a widely used
family of parent-report instruments for easy and inexpensive data-gathering about early …

[图书][B] Social understanding and social lives: From toddlerhood through to the transition to school

C Hughes - 2011 - taylorfrancis.com
Winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award (Academic Monograph category)
2013! Over the past thirty years, researchers have documented a remarkable growth in …

[HTML][HTML] A unified approach to demographic data collection for research with young children across diverse cultures.

L Singh, MD Barokova, HA Baumgartner… - Developmental …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Culture is a key determinant of children's development both in its own right and as a
measure of generalizability of developmental phenomena. Studying the role of culture in …

Education in the app store: using a mobile game to support US preschoolers' vocabulary learning

RA Dore, M Shirilla, E Hopkins, M Collins… - Journal of Children …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the prevalence of educational apps for children, there is little evidence of their
effectiveness for learning. Here, children were asked to learn ten new words in a narrative …

[图书][B] Introduction to language development

SM Kennison - 2013 - books.google.com
There are between 4,000 and 6,000 languages remaining in the world and the
characteristics of these languages vary widely. How could an infant born today master any …

Consistency and variability in children's word learning across languages

M Braginsky, D Yurovsky, VA Marchman, MC Frank - Open Mind, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
Why do children learn some words earlier than others? The order in which words are
acquired can provide clues about the mechanisms of word learning. In a large-scale corpus …

childes-db: A flexible and reproducible interface to the child language data exchange system

A Sanchez, SC Meylan, M Braginsky… - Behavior research …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract The Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) has played a critical role
in research on child language development, particularly in characterizing the early language …