Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to
socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage …

Traditionally, acquisition of syntactic knowledge and the development of sentence
comprehension behaviors have been treated as separate disciplines. This article reviews a …

Infants differ substantially in their rates of language growth, and slow growth predicts later
academic difficulties. In this study, we explored how the amount of speech directed to infants …

This research revealed both similarities and striking differences in early language
proficiency among infants from a broad range of advantaged and disadvantaged families …

It is widely accepted that infants begin learning their native language not by learning words,
but by discovering features of the speech signal: consonants, vowels, and combinations of …

The nature of predictive relations between early language and later cognitive function is a
fundamental question in research on human cognition. In a longitudinal study assessing …

Mastery of grammatical gender is difficult to achieve in a second language (L2). This study
investigates whether persistent difficulty with grammatical gender often observed in the …

When hearing a novel name, children tend to select a novel object rather than a familiar one,
a bias known as disambiguation. Using online processing measures with 18-, 24-, and 30 …

Using online measures of familiar word recognition in the looking‐while‐listening
procedure, this prospective longitudinal study revealed robust links between processing …

Research using online comprehension measures with monolingual children shows that
speed and accuracy of spoken word recognition are correlated with lexical development …