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View article: Consonant Neutralization and Vowel Space Area in Tashlhiyt Berber’s Infant-Directed Speech
Consonant Neutralization and Vowel Space Area in Tashlhiyt Berber’s Infant-Directed Speech Open
Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) and Adult-Directed Speech (ADS) are two registers that can differ across multiple linguistic domains and social contexts. In languages where the phonemes’ acoustic clarity is modified, there is a typical assump…
View article: Developing language in a developing body: genetic associations of infant gross motor behaviour and self‐care/symbolic actions with emerging language abilities
Developing language in a developing body: genetic associations of infant gross motor behaviour and self‐care/symbolic actions with emerging language abilities Open
Background Mastering gross motor abilities in early infancy and culturally defined actions (e.g. self‐care routines) in late infancy can initiate cascading developmental changes that affect language learning. Here, we adopt a genetic persp…
View article: Classification errors distort findings in automated speech processing: examples and solutions from child-development research
Classification errors distort findings in automated speech processing: examples and solutions from child-development research Open
With the advent of wearable recorders, scientists are increasingly turning to automated methods of analysis of audio and video data in order to measure children's experience, behavior, and outcomes, with a sizable literature employing long…
View article: A comparative study of child-directed language across five cultures based on data from the <i>Acquisition Sketch Project</i>
A comparative study of child-directed language across five cultures based on data from the <i>Acquisition Sketch Project</i> Open
Special Issue: In Memory of Barbara F. Kelly
View article: Classification errors distort findings in automated speech processing: examples and solutions from child-development research
Classification errors distort findings in automated speech processing: examples and solutions from child-development research Open
With the advent of wearable recorders, scientists are increasingly turning to automated methods of analysis of audio and video data in order to measure children's experience, behavior, and outcomes, with a sizable literature employing long…
View article: How Does Speaking A Free Word Order Language Influence Sentence Planning and Production? Evidence From Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia)
How Does Speaking A Free Word Order Language Influence Sentence Planning and Production? Evidence From Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia) Open
Sentence production is a stage‐like process of mapping a conceptual representation to the linear speech signal via grammatical rules. While the typological diversity of languages is vast and thus must necessarily influence sentence product…
View article: The role of executive function in the processing and acquisition of syntax
The role of executive function in the processing and acquisition of syntax Open
Language acquisition is multifaceted, relying on cognitive and social abilities in addition to language-specific skills. We hypothesized that executive function (EF) may assist language development by enabling children to revise misinterpr…
View article: Incremental processing in a polysynthetic language (Murrinhpatha)
Incremental processing in a polysynthetic language (Murrinhpatha) Open
Language processing is rapidly incremental, but evidence bearing upon this assumption comes from very few languages. In this paper we report on a study of incremental processing in Murrinhpatha, a polysynthetic Australian language, which e…
View article: The Scientific and Cultural Cost of Convenience Sampling in the Face of Rising Language Endangerment: Highlighting the Role of Language Acquisition
The Scientific and Cultural Cost of Convenience Sampling in the Face of Rising Language Endangerment: Highlighting the Role of Language Acquisition Open
We live in an unprecedented era of language endangerment and loss. In the midst of this crisis, it is becoming more and more evident that the psychological and cognitive sciences know very little about how most of the world’s languages are…
View article: The separability of early vocabulary and grammar knowledge
The separability of early vocabulary and grammar knowledge Open
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View article: Developing language in a developing body: Genetic associations of infant motor and personal-social skills with emerging language abilities
Developing language in a developing body: Genetic associations of infant motor and personal-social skills with emerging language abilities Open
Mastering developmental milestones such as infant motor and personal-social skills (including social routines and pretend-play) can initiate a cascade of developmental changes that may affect language learning. Specifically, motor developm…
View article: A meta-analysis of syntactic priming experiments in children
A meta-analysis of syntactic priming experiments in children Open
A substantial literature exists using the syntactic priming methodology with children to test hypotheses regarding the acquisition of syntax, under the assumption that priming effects reveal both the presence of syntactic knowledge and the…
View article: A Comprehensive Examination of Prediction‐Based Error as a Mechanism for Syntactic Development: Evidence From Syntactic Priming
A Comprehensive Examination of Prediction‐Based Error as a Mechanism for Syntactic Development: Evidence From Syntactic Priming Open
Prediction‐based accounts of language acquisition have the potential to explain several different effects in child language acquisition and adult language processing. However, evidence regarding the developmental predictions of such accoun…
View article: Developmental changes in brain activation during novel grammar learning in 8-25-year-olds
Developmental changes in brain activation during novel grammar learning in 8-25-year-olds Open
While it is well established that grammar learning success varies with age, the cause of this developmental change is largely unknown. This study examined functional MRI activation across a broad developmental sample of 165 Dutch-speaking …
View article: Relative clause comprehension in Cantonese-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder
Relative clause comprehension in Cantonese-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder Open
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), present in 2 out of every 30 children, affects primarily oral language abilities and development in the absence of associated biomedical conditions. We report the first experimental study that examine…
View article: How does linguistic context influence word learning?
How does linguistic context influence word learning? Open
While there are well-known demonstrations that children can use distributional information to acquire multiple components of language, the underpinnings of these achievements are unclear. In the current paper, we investigate the potential …
View article: Why we need a gradient approach to word order
Why we need a gradient approach to word order Open
This article argues for a gradient approach to word order, which treats word order preferences, both within and across languages, as a continuous variable. Word order variability should be regarded as a basic assumption, rather than as som…
View article: Online data collection to address language sampling bias: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Online data collection to address language sampling bias: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has massively limited how linguists can collect data, and out of necessity, researchers across several disciplines have moved data collection online. Here we argue that the rising popularity of remote web-based experi…
View article: Close Encounters of the Word Kind: Attested Distributional Information Boosts Statistical Learning
Close Encounters of the Word Kind: Attested Distributional Information Boosts Statistical Learning Open
Statistical learning, the ability to extract regularities from input (e.g., in language), is likely supported by learners’ prior expectations about how component units co‐occur. In this study, we investigated how adults’ prior experience w…
View article: Where to from here? Increasing language coverage while building a more diverse discipline
Where to from here? Increasing language coverage while building a more diverse discipline Open
Our original target article highlighted some significant shortcomings in the current state of child language research: a large skew in our evidential base towards English and a handful of other Indo-European languages that partly has its o…
View article: The effect of children’s prior knowledge and language abilities on their statistical learning
The effect of children’s prior knowledge and language abilities on their statistical learning Open
Statistical learning (SL) is assumed to lead to long-term memory representations. However, the way that those representations influence future learning remains largely unknown. We studied how children’s existing distributional linguistic k…
View article: Acquiring verb-argument structure in Tagalog: a multivariate corpus analysis of caregiver and child speech
Acquiring verb-argument structure in Tagalog: a multivariate corpus analysis of caregiver and child speech Open
Western Austronesian languages have typologically rare but theoretically important voice systems that raise many questions about their learnability. While these languages have been featured prominently in the descriptive and typological li…
View article: Symbolic play as a zone of proximal development: An analysis of informational exchange
Symbolic play as a zone of proximal development: An analysis of informational exchange Open
Symbolic play has long been considered a beneficial context for development. According to Cultural Learning theory, one reason for this is that symbolically‐infused dialogical interactions constitute a zone of proximal development. However…
View article: The Role of Stimulus‐Specific Perceptual Fluency in Statistical Learning
The Role of Stimulus‐Specific Perceptual Fluency in Statistical Learning Open
Humans have the ability to learn surprisingly complicated statistical information in a variety of modalities and situations, often based on relatively little input. These statistical learning (SL) skills appear to underlie many kinds of le…