A pervasive goal in the study of how children learn word meanings is to explain how young
children solve the mapping problem. The mapping problem asks how language learners …

The selection of books to read to young children matters enormously in the role books play
for enriching children's lives. This paper reviews the scientific evidence for the appropriate …

To what extent do children with autism (AD) versus typically developing children (TD) rely on
attentional and intentional cues to learn words? Four experiments compared 17 AD children …

Although it is well documented that children undergo a productive vocabulary spurt late in
the second year, it is unclear whether this development is accompanied by equally …

Recent research has shown that infants are sensitive to mispronunciations of words when
tested using a preferential looking task. The results of these studies indicate that infants are …

The present study investigated the brain mechanisms involved during young children's
receptive familiarization with new words, and whether the dynamics of these mechanisms …

Following the proposal that consonants are more involved than vowels in coding the lexicon
(Nespor, Peña & Mehler, 2003), an early lexical consonant bias was found from age 1; 2 in …

Using the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, language comprehension and production were
compared in a sample of 101,250 children aged 2; 00 to 9; 11 and a focus subsample of …

This article investigated how network growth algorithms—preferential attachment,
preferential acquisition, and lure of the associates—relate to the acquisition of words in the …

The role of temporal synchrony and syllable distinctiveness in preverbal infants' learning of
word–object relations was investigated. In Experiment 1, 7-and 8-month-olds (N= 64) were …