In this article, I discuss the acquisition of functional morphemes during the first years of life.
Infants begin to process functional items at birth. They start encoding functional elements …

Purpose Eye-gaze methods have the potential to advance the study of neurodevelopmental
disorders. Despite their increasing use, challenges arise in using these methods with …

The intermodal preferential looking paradigm (IPLP) has proven to be a revolutionary
method for the examination of infants' emerging language knowledge. In the IPLP, infants' …

This paper focuses on how phrasal prosody and function words may interact during early
language acquisition. Experimental results show that infants have access to intermediate …

Early language competence is a reliable and powerful predictor of children's success in
school, and word gaps linked to socioeconomic status disparities have cascading effects on …

Two‐year‐olds use the sentence structures verbs appear in—subcategorization frames—to
guide verb learning. This is syntactic bootstrapping. This study probed the developmental …

This study examines the role of functional morphemes in the earliest stage of lexical
development. Recent research showed that prelinguistic infants can perceive functional …

We tested toddlers' and adults' predictive use of English subject–verb agreement.
Participants saw pairs of pictures differing in number and kind (eg, one apple, two cookies) …

The ability to infer the referential intentions of speakers is a crucial part of learning a
language. Previous research has uncovered various contextual and social cues that …

During conversations participants alternate smoothly between speaker and hearer roles with
only brief pauses and overlaps. There are two competing types of accounts about how …