During development we transition from coregulation (where regulatory processes are
shared between child and caregiver) to self‐regulation. Most early coregulatory interactions …

During everyday interactions, mothers and infants achieve behavioral synchrony at multiple
levels. The ebb-and-flow of mother-infant physical proximity may be a central type of …

Actions in the world elicit data for learning and do so in a stream of interconnected events.
Here, we provide evidence on how toddlers with their parent sample information by acting …

It has been argued that a necessary condition for the emergence of speech in humans is the
ability to vocalise irrespective of underlying affective states, but when and how this happens …

Cross-situational word learning, the ability to decipher word-referent links over multiple
ambiguous learning events, has been documented across development and proposed to be …

Everyday caregiver‐infant interactions are dynamic and multidimensional. However, existing
research underestimates the dimensionality of infants' experiences, often focusing on one or …

Infants are sensitive to statistics in spoken language that aid word‐form segmentation and
immediate mapping to referents. However, it is not clear whether this sensitivity influences …

Studies have shown the importance of caregivers' multimodal behaviours (eg, prosody,
gestures, gaze) on children's word learning. However, most studies focus on only one …

Because information theory equates information with event occurrence probabilities, when
applying its methods, language researchers typically take the information provided by words …

The present study examined adults' understanding of children's early word learning.
Undergraduates, non-parents, parents, and Speech-Language Pathologists (N= 535, 74 …