Any theory of language must account for how children learn verbs, the gateway to grammar.
Yet verbs can be difficult to learn. Building on Gentner's 'natural partitions hypothesis' we …

Relational terms (eg, verbs and prepositions) are the cornerstone of language development,
bringing together two distinct fields: linguistic theory and infants' event processing. To …

Norms permeate human life. Most of people's activities can be characterized by rules about
what is appropriate, allowed, required, or forbidden—rules that are crucial in making people …

Publisher Summary Since the 1990s, there has been emerging consensus that the process
of word learning will not be best described through deference to one approach or the other …

This second edition of Child Psychology reflects the increasingly sophisticated and varied
research methods used to examine the highly complex interactions contributing to children's …

Do 14-to 17-month-olds notice the paths and manners of motion events? English-and
Spanish-learning infants were habituated to an animated motion event including a manner …

Abstract Language that describes actions, for instance verbs, can help to predict future
actions of conspecifics in social interactions. Language and action are therefore interrelated …

In the world, the manners and paths of motion events take place together, but in language,
these features are expressed separately. How do infants learn to process motion events in …

Verb use and the production of verb argument structure in the written texts of children in
elementary school is a key stepping stone towards academic writing success that has …

The relation between event apprehension and utterance formulation was examined in
children and adults. English-speaking adults and 4-year-olds viewed motion events while …