Objectives: Language development is a multifaceted, dynamic process involving the
discovery of complex patterns, and the refinement of native language competencies in the …

This paper systematically reviews studies on early childhood vocabulary instruction,
specifically examining word selection methods and the characteristics of words selected for …

The relationship between musical and linguistic skills has received particular attention in
infants and school-aged children. However, very little is known about pre-schoolers. This …

Well‐developed lexical representations are important for reading comprehension, but there
have been no prior attempts to track growth in the depth of knowledge of particular words …

We explored social information processing and its relation to social and communicative
symptoms in toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their siblings. Toddlers with …

Background: This research explored the relative impact of demographic, cognitive,
behavioural, and psycholinguistic factors on vocabulary development in two‐year‐old …

Before formal education begins, children typically acquire a vocabulary of thousands of
words. This learning process requires the use of many different information sources in their …

Does making an inference lead to better learning than being instructed directly? Two
experiments evaluated preschoolers' ability to learn new words, comparing their memory for …

For infants, early word learning is a chicken-and-egg problem. One way to learn a word is to
observe that it co-occurs with a particular referent across different situations. Another way is …

The importance of early vocabulary development to later reading comprehension has been
well-established. However, there have been a number of criticisms that the assessments …