Sometimes we accept propositions, sometimes we reject them, and sometimes we take
propositions to be worth considering but not yet established, as merely possible. The result …

A data-driven exploration of how children's language learning varies across different
languages, providing both a theoretical framework and reference. The Wordbank Project …

When perceptually available information is scant, we can leverage logical connections
among hypotheses to draw reliable conclusions that guide our reasoning and learning. We …

In this review we provide a discussion of the concept of alternatives and its role in linguistic
and psycholinguistic theorizing in the context of the contributions that have appeared in the …

Recent research suggests that infants tend to add words to their vocabulary that are
semantically related to other known words, though it is not clear why this pattern emerges. In …

Although the size of a child's vocabulary associates with language‐processing skills, little is
understood regarding how this relation emerges. This investigation asks whether and how …

Human thought and language is traditionally considered as abstract, amodal, and symbolic.
However, recent theories propose that high-level human cognition is directly linked to basic …

Negation is known to have inhibitory consequences for the information under its scope.
However, how it produces such effects remains poorly understood. Recently, it has been …

ABSTRACT For adults,“no” and “not” change the truth-value of sentences they compose
with. To investigate children's emerging understanding of these words, an experimenter hid …

Adults routinely use the context of utterances to infer a meaning beyond the literal semantics
of their words (eg, inferring from “She ate some of the cookies” that she ate some, but not …