Children extend regular grammatical patterns to irregular words, resulting in
overregularizations like comed, often after a period of correct performance (" U-shaped …

This paper introduces a special issue of Cognition on lexical access in speech production.
Over the last quarter century, the psycholinguistic study of speaking, and in particular of …

It is with renewed appreciation for the size of the task that I come to writing the present
chapter. The number of special issues of journals dedicated to im/politeness these days …

Describes patterns of general communication development and of English specificity,
emphasizing individual patterns. This edition devotes more attention to individual …

This article suggests that productive disciplinary engagement can be fostered by designing
learning environments that support (a) problematizing subject matter,(b) giving students …

First Verbs is a detailed diary study of one child's earliest language development during her
second year of life. Using a Cognitive Linguistics framework, the author focuses on how his …

This comprehensive guide to research and debate centres around language learning in
childhood, the age factor and the different contexts where language learning happens …

This is a vocabulary research manual. It aims to give you the background knowledge
necessary to design rigorous and effective research studies into the behavior of L1 and L2 …

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 …

Universally, object names make up the largest proportion of any word type found in
children's early lexicons. Here we present and critically evaluate a set of six lexical …