How does one assess developmental change when the measures themselves change with
development? Most developmental studies of word learning use either looking (infants) or …

For both adults and children, learning from one's mistakes (error‐based learning) has been
shown to be advantageous over avoiding errors altogether (errorless learning) in …

The shape bias is an important word learning strategy in children's language development.
Although some studies have observed an absent or atypical shape bias in autistic children …

Children's ability to identify relevant object features, such as shape, plays a key role in
learning object names. However, successful attention to shape (shape bias) is dependent …

Studies of language learning often focus on how caregiver input shapes children's language
outcomes. In contrast, the role of children's own production—especially errors—is often …