Infant research is hard. It is difficult, expensive, and time‐consuming to identify, recruit, and
test infants. As a result, ours is a field of small sample sizes. Many studies using infant …

According to traditional linguistic theories, the construction of complex meanings relies firmly
on syntactic structure-building operations. Recently, however, new models have been …

In language, the relative order of words in sentences carries important grammatical
functions. However, the developmental origins and the neural correlates of the ability to track …

To understand language, humans must encode information from rapid, sequential streams
of syllables–tracking their order and organizing them into words, phrases, and sentences …

In two experiments, we assessed whether infants are able to learn rules predicated on two
abstract relations linked by negation: same and different (not same). In an anticipatory …

Each language has its unique way to mark grammatical information such as gender, number
and tense. For example, English marks number and tense/aspect information with …

Human languages rely on the ability to learn and produce an indefinite number of words by
combining consonants and vowels in a lawful manner. The categorization of speech …

How do infants' thoughts compare to the thoughts adults express with language? In
particular, can infants entertain negative representations, such as not red or not here? In four …

Infants' capacity to extract statistical regularities from sequential information is impressive
and well documented. However, statistical learning's underlying mechanism remains mostly …

Coordinated studies provide evidence that very young infants, like human adults and
nonhuman animals, readily discriminate small and large number of visual displays on the …