Computational cognitive modeling is a tool we can use to evaluate theories of syntactic
acquisition. Here, I review several models implementing theories that integrate information …

Understanding emotion words is vital to understanding, regulating, and communicating
one's emotions. Yet, little work examines how emotion words are acquired by children …

Children acquiring language must learn a variety of words mapping on to different kinds of
concepts. Typically, word learning accounts focus on how children strategically acquire …

This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges
the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic …

Adjectives like good, nice, pretty, and big are among the most frequent adjectives heard by
children in the ambient language, and among the first adjectives produced by children …

A verb that's passivizable is often one that can be used transitively (ie, it allows an object).
For example, eat is both passivizable (It was/got eaten) and (optionally) transitive (I ate it) …

This article reports on two novel word-learning experiments examining children's use of
subject animacy to categorize novel adjectives as either tough adjectives (eg, easy, hard) or …

We explore children's use of syntactic distribution in the acquisition of attitude verbs, such as
think, want, and hope. Because attitude verbs refer to concepts that are opaque to …

How do young children learn the meanings of adjectives that label emotions and mental
states, like happy or confident? The concepts behind these words seem easy to grasp, and …

How do children learn the meaning of words like “pretty” and “tall,” which are not only
gradable and context dependent (Kennedy & McNally 2005), but encode speaker …