A data-driven exploration of how children's language learning varies across different
languages, providing both a theoretical framework and reference. The Wordbank Project …

Recent research has revealed that infants begin understanding words at around 6 months.
After that, infants' comprehension vocabulary increases gradually in a linear way over 8–18 …

Children's linguistic knowledge and the learning mechanisms by which they acquire it grow
substantially in infancy and toddlerhood, yet theories of word learning largely fail to …

Theories of language development—informed largely by studies of Western, middleclass
infants—have highlighted the language that caregivers direct to children as a key driver of …

Abstract The MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) are among
the most widely used evaluation tools for early language development. CDIs are filled in by …

A standard model is a theoretical framework that synthesizes observables into a quantitative
consensus. Have researchers made progress toward this kind of synthesis for children's …

It is popular in psychology to hypothesize that representations of exact number are innately
determined—in particular, that biology has endowed humans with a system for manipulating …

Assessing early vocabulary development commonly involves parent report methods and
behavioral tasks like looking‐while‐listening. While both yield reliable aggregate scores …

Children have an early ability to learn and comprehend words, a skill that develops as they
age. A critical question remains regarding what drives this development. Maturation-based …

We examine the conceptual development of kinship through the lens of program induction.
We present a computational model for the acquisition of kinship term concepts, resulting in …