Computational cognitive modeling is a tool we can use to evaluate theories of syntactic
acquisition. Here, I review several models implementing theories that integrate information …

Understanding emotion words is vital to understanding, regulating, and communicating
one's emotions. Yet, little work examines how emotion words are acquired by children …

Children acquiring language must learn a variety of words mapping on to different kinds of
concepts. Typically, word learning accounts focus on how children strategically acquire …

This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges
the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic …

Words have meanings vastly undetermined by the contexts in which they occur. Their
acquisition therefore presents formidable problems of induction. Lila Gleitman and …

Children's understanding of passives of certain mental state predicates appears to lag
behind passives of so-called actional predicates, an asymmetry that has posed a major …

Adjectives like good, nice, pretty, and big are among the most frequent adjectives heard by
children in the ambient language, and among the first adjectives produced by children …

This dissertation examines the acquisition of argument structure as a window into the role of
development in grammar learning. The way that children represent the data for language …

A verb that's passivizable is often one that can be used transitively (ie, it allows an object).
For example, eat is both passivizable (It was/got eaten) and (optionally) transitive (I ate it) …

Adjectives are a powerful tool for enriching vocabulary and developing conceptual
understanding. In early elementary and primary classrooms, across core and foundation …