The cognitive neuroscience of semantics has focused largely on object knowledge. By
contrast, spatial semantics, especially as related to language, has received little attention …

Viewing data were reported every 3 months beginning at 6 months of age by the parents of
51 infants and toddlers. Viewing logs were coded for program, content, and intended …

Relational terms (eg, verbs and prepositions) are the cornerstone of language development,
bringing together two distinct fields: linguistic theory and infants' event processing. To …

Words do not all connect to the world in the same way. Some words basically point and refer
to things in the world, while others organize the world into semantic systems and name …

The idea that concepts are embodied by our motor and sensory systems is popular in
current theorizing about cognition. Embodied cognition accounts come in different versions …

Different languages map semantic elements of spatial relations onto different lexical and
syntactic units. These crosslinguistic differences raise important questions for language …

Learning relational categories—whose membership is defined not by intrinsic properties but
by extrinsic relations with other entities—poses a challenge to young children. The current …

Words are the building blocks of language. An understanding of how words are learned is
thus central to any theory of language acquisition. Although there has been a surge in our …

The embodied-cognition approach views cognition and language as grounded in daily
sensorimotor child–environment interactions. Therefore, the attainment of motor milestones …

Publisher Summary Since the 1990s, there has been emerging consensus that the process
of word learning will not be best described through deference to one approach or the other …