Children are in the midst of a vast, unplanned experiment, surrounded by digital
technologies that were not available but 5 years ago. At the apex of this boom is the …

The abilities to understand and use language represent two of the most important
developmental competencies that children must master during the first 3years of life. Over …

Language learning takes place in the context of social interactions, yet the mechanisms that
render social interactions useful for learning language remain unclear. This study focuses …

Researchers examined whether contingent experience using a touch screen increased
toddlers' ability to learn a word from video. One hundred and sixteen children (24–36 …

Given a novel word and a familiar and a novel referent, children have a bias to assume the
novel word refers to the novel referent. This bias–often referred to as “Mutual …

The prototypical word learning situation in western, middle-class cultures is dyadic: an adult
addresses a child directly, ideally in a manner sensitive to their current focus of attention. But …

Zack, E., Gerhardstein, P., Meltzoff, AN & Barr, R.(2013). 15‐month‐olds' transfer of learning
between touch screen and real‐world displays: language cues and cognitive loads …

Technology is forever changing the landscape of children's education in and out of school.
But much of what masquerades for “educational” in the digital world, is not. In this chapter …

The current experiment employed a mixed design to assess word learning in 70 infants
under the age of 2. Infants (4–24 months) were randomly assigned to watch 1 of 2 …

Mutual exclusivity (ME) refers to the assumption that there are one-to-one relations between
linguistic forms and their meanings. It is used as a word-learning strategy whereby children …