Recently, researchers have measured hand movements en route to choices on a screen to
understand the dynamics of a broad range of psychological processes. We review this …

The central focus of this text is language development as a field of basic research, but
applied issues are also considered. Chapter 1 provides an overview and history of the field …

Children as old as 5 or 6 years display selective difficulties in revising initial interpretive
commitments, as indicated by both online and offline measures of sentence comprehension …

Researchers have proposed that two processes featuring distinct types of inhibition support
inhibitory control: a response threshold adjustment process involving the global inhibition of …

Classic studies reveal two striking differences between preschoolers and adults in online
sentence comprehension. Adults (a) recruit referential context cues to guide syntactic …

Language development requires children to learn how to understand ambiguous pronouns,
as in Panda Bear is having lunch with Puppy. He wants a pepperoni slice. Adults tend to link …

During spoken language comprehension, young children have difficulties in revising
incorrect predictions about the structural properties of sentences. Recent research on …

In a double-blind, randomized controlled trial, we investigated relationships between infants'
exposure to thiamine and their language-processing ability. Three hundred thirty-five …

Both 5-year-old children and adults infer the structure of a sentence as they are hearing it.
Prior work, however, has found that children do not always make use of the same …

Much work has demonstrated that children are able to use bottom-up linguistic cues to
incrementally interpret sentences, but there is little understanding of the extent to which …