Child Language

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Frequent frames" in German child-directed speech: a limited cue to grammatical categories. 
  • A dense corpus study of past tense and plural overregularization in English. 
  • A process model of attachment-friend linkages: hostile attribution biases, language ability, and mother-child affective mutuality as intervening mechanisms. 
  • Acquiring the transitive construction in English: the role of animacy and pronouns. 
  • An examination of sex differences on neurocognitive functioning and behavior problems in maltreated youth. 
  • At 6-9 months, human infants know the meanings of many common nouns. 
  • Bayesian Word Learning in Multiple Language Environments. 
  • Breastfeeding and verbal ability of 3-year-olds in a multicity sample. 
  • Children aged 2 ; 1 use transitive syntax to make a semantic-role interpretation in a pointing task. 
  • Children's speech revisions for a familiar and an unfamiliar adult. 
  • Cochlear implantation update. 
  • Comparing different accounts of inversion errors in children's non-subject wh-questions: 'What experimental data can tell us?'. 
  • Cross-linguistic studies of directionality in first language acquisition: the Japanese data--a response to O'Grady, Suzuki-Wei & Cho 1986. 
  • Differential productivity in young children's use of nouns and verbs. 
  • Discriminating signs: perceptual precursors to acquiring a visual-gestural language. 
  • Early syntactic creativity: a usage-based approach. 
  • Eighteen-month-old children learn words in non-ostensive contexts. 
  • Error patterns in young German children's wh-questions. 
  • Factors affecting young children's use of pronouns as referring expressions. 
  • German children's productivity with tense morphology: the Perfekt (present perfect). 
  • Joint attention on actions: acquiring verbs in ostensive and non-ostensive contexts. 
  • Language ability predicts the development of behavior problems in children. 
  • Language in a New Key. 
  • Learnability of prosodic boundaries: Is infant-directed speech easier? 
  • Point, walk, talk: Links between three early milestones, from observation and parental report. 
  • Productivity of Noun Slots in Verb Frames. 
  • Responding to joint attention and language development: a comparison of target locations. 
  • Segmental distributions and consonant-vowel association patterns in Japanese infant- and adult-directed speech. 
  • Semantics of the transitive construction: prototype effects and developmental comparisons. 
  • The acquisition of German relative clauses: a case study. 
  • The contribution of children's time-specific and longitudinal expressive language skills on developmental trajectories of executive function. 
  • The role of language in the development of false belief understanding: a training study. 
  • The role of perceptual availability and discourse context in young children's question answering. 
  • The role of the input in the acquisition of third person singular verbs in English. 
  • Two-year-old children differentiate test questions from genuine questions. 
  • Vowels in infant-directed speech: More breathy and more variable, but not clearer. 
  • What hinders child semantic computation: children's universal quantification and the development of cognitive control. 
  • What paradox? A response to Naigles (2002). 
  • Young German children's early syntactic competence: a preferential looking study. 
  • Young children's knowledge of the "determiner" and "adjective" categories. 
  • Young children's responses to neutral and specific contingent queries. 
  • Young children's understanding of markedness in non-verbal communication. 
  • Young children's use of prosody in sentence parsing.