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 …

A pervasive goal in the study of how children learn word meanings is to explain how young
children solve the mapping problem. The mapping problem asks how language learners …

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 …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are
intimately related. This relationship is frequently suggested to derive from a language …

Classic approaches to word learning emphasize referential ambiguity: In naming situations,
a novel word could refer to many possible objects, properties, actions, and so forth. To solve …

The authors present a Bayesian framework for understanding how adults and children learn
the meanings of words. The theory explains how learners can generalize meaningfully from …

Studies examining factors that influence when words are learned typically investigate one
lexical category or a small set of words. We provide the first evaluation of the relation …

We found that infant gaze following and pointing predicts subsequent language
development. At ages 0; 10 or 0; 11, infants saw an adult turn to look at an object in an …

The remarkable way in which young children acquire language has long fascinated linguists
and developmental psychologists alike. Language is a skill that we have essentially …