Language Development

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A model interdisciplinary diagnostic and treatment nursery. 
  • A tale of two theories: response to Fisher. 
  • A thorough evaluation of the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system. 
  • Accuracy of the Language Environment Analysis System Segmentation and Metrics: A Systematic Review. 
  • Acquiring the transitive construction in English: the role of animacy and pronouns. 
  • Adult language use and infant comprehension of English: associations with encoding and generalization across cues at 20 months. 
  • Amygdalar volume and behavioral development in autism. 
  • Articulation development in children with cleft lip/palate. 
  • At 6-9 months, human infants know the meanings of many common nouns. 
  • Behavior Profiles at 2 Years for Children Born Extremely Preterm with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia. 
  • Behavioral problems are associated with cognitive and language scores in toddlers born extremely preterm. 
  • Bootstrapping word order in prelexical infants: a Japanese-Italian cross-linguistic study. 
  • Brain responses to words in 2-year-olds with autism predict developmental outcomes at age 6. 
  • Can we dissociate contingency learning from social learning in word acquisition by 24-month-olds? 
  • Children's ability to answer different types of questions. 
  • Children's speech revisions for a familiar and an unfamiliar adult. 
  • Children's understanding of first- and third-person perspectives in complement clauses and false-belief tasks. 
  • Cognitive bases of lexical development: object permanence and relational words. 
  • Communicative cues in the absence of a human interaction partner enhance 12-month-old infants' word learning. 
  • Comprehension of novel communicative signs by apes and human children. 
  • Cross-linguistic studies of directionality in first language acquisition: the Japanese data--a response to O'Grady, Suzuki-Wei & Cho 1986. 
  • Day by day, hour by hour: Naturalistic language input to infants. 
  • Development of fricative sound perception in Korean infants: The role of language experience and infants' initial sensitivity. 
  • Development of non-native vowel discrimination: Improvement without exposure. 
  • Development of single/geminate obstruent discrimination by Japanese infants: early integration of durational and nondurational cues. 
  • Differential productivity in young children's use of nouns and verbs. 
  • Discriminating signs: perceptual precursors to acquiring a visual-gestural language. 
  • Discrimination of phonemic vowel length by Japanese infants. 
  • Do young children have adult syntactic competence? 
  • Early communicative gestures prospectively predict language development and executive function in early childhood. 
  • Early literacy gains in children with cochlear implants. 
  • Eighteen-month-old children learn words in non-ostensive contexts. 
  • Emergence of Japanese infants' prosodic preferences in infant-directed vocabulary. 
  • Even at 4 months, a labial is a good enough coronal, but not vice versa. 
  • Familiar verbs are not always easier than novel verbs: how German pre-school children comprehend active and passive sentences. 
  • Familiarity plays a small role in noun comprehension at 12-18 months. 
  • Flexibility in the semantics and syntax of children's early verb use. 
  • From babble to words: Infants' early productions match words and objects in their environment. 
  • Heterogeneous association between engrailed-2 and autism in the CPEA network. 
  • HomeBank: An Online Repository of Daylong Child-Centered Audio Recordings. 
  • How selective are 3-year-olds in imitating novel linguistic material? 
  • How toddlers and preschoolers learn to uniquely identify referents for others: a training study. 
  • Individual common variants exert weak effects on the risk for autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Infant and Toddler Child-Care Quality and Stability in Relation to Proximal and Distal Academic and Social Outcomes. 
  • Infants communicate in order to be understood. 
  • Joint attention and early language. 
  • Language in a New Key. 
  • Language input to infants of different socioeconomic statuses: A quantitative meta-analysis. 
  • Language-general biases and language-specific experience contribute to phonological detail in toddlers' word representations. 
  • Learning to use prepositions: a case study. 
  • Links between social and linguistic processing of speech in preschool children with autism: behavioral and electrophysiological measures. 
  • Look who's talking: A comparison of automated and human-generated speaker tags in naturalistic day-long recordings. 
  • Mother-child conversational interactions as events unfold: linkages to subsequent remembering. 
  • Mothers speak less clearly to infants than to adults: a comprehensive test of the hyperarticulation hypothesis. 
  • Natural reference: A phylo- and ontogenetic perspective on the comprehension of iconic gestures and vocalizations. 
  • Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6-mo-olds. 
  • Neurodevelopment in children with single-suture craniosynostosis and plagiocephaly without synostosis. 
  • Neuronal Development of Hearing and Language: Cochlear Implants and Critical Periods. 
  • Object permanence and relational words: a lexical training study. 
  • One-year-olds comprehend the communicative intentions behind gestures in a hiding game. 
  • Outcomes of unrelated umbilical cord blood transplantation for X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. 
  • Prelinguistic infants, but not chimpanzees, communicate about absent entities. 
  • Productivity of Noun Slots in Verb Frames. 
  • Rapid learning of an abstract language-specific category: Polish children's acquisition of the instrumental construction. 
  • Semantics of the transitive construction: prototype effects and developmental comparisons. 
  • Social cognition, joint attention, and communicative competence from 9 to 15 months of age. 
  • Surgical factors in pediatric cochlear implantation and their early effects on electrode activation and functional outcomes. 
  • Symbolic Play and Novel Noun Learning in Deaf and Hearing Children: Longitudinal Effects of Access to Sound on Early Precursors of Language. 
  • The acquisition of abstract words by young infants. 
  • The communicative contexts of grammatical aspect use in English. 
  • The development of Japanese passive syntax as indexed by structural priming in comprehension. 
  • The development of a phonological illusion: a cross-linguistic study with Japanese and French infants. 
  • The development of the ability to recognize the meaning of iconic signs. 
  • The effect of previously learned words on the child's acquisition of words for similar referents. 
  • The multidimensional nature of hyperspeech: evidence from Japanese vowel devoicing. 
  • The role of pronouns in young children's acquisition of the English transitive construction. 
  • The role of the input on the development of the LC bias: a crosslinguistic comparison. 
  • Timing of cochlear implantation and parents' global ratings of children's health and development. 
  • Tracking development of speech recognition: longitudinal data from hierarchical assessments in the Childhood Development after Cochlear Implantation Study. 
  • Training 2;6-year-olds to produce the transitive construction: the role of frequency, semantic similarity and shared syntactic distribution. 
  • Twelve-month-olds communicate helpfully and appropriately for knowledgeable and ignorant partners. 
  • Two- and four-year-olds learn to adapt referring expressions to context: effects of distracters and feedback on referential communication. 
  • Two-year-olds exclude novel objects as potential referents of novel words based on pragmatics. 
  • Two-year-olds learn novel nouns, verbs, and conventional actions from massed or distributed exposures. 
  • Understanding of speaker certainty and false-belief reasoning: a comparison of Japanese and German preschoolers. 
  • Using the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system in preschool classrooms with children with autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Vocal development in a large-scale crosslinguistic corpus. 
  • Vowels in infant-directed speech: More breathy and more variable, but not clearer. 
  • What Do North American Babies Hear? A large-scale cross-corpus analysis. 
  • What paradox? A response to Naigles (2002). 
  • Young German children's early syntactic competence: a preferential looking study. 
  • Young children learn to produce passives with nonce verbs. 
  • Young children spontaneously recreate core properties of language in a new modality. 
  • Young children's overgeneralizations with fixed transitivity verbs. 
  • Young children's productivity with word order and verb morphology. 
  • Young children's responses to neutral and specific contingent queries.