Language Development

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A model interdisciplinary diagnostic and treatment nursery. 
  • Amygdalar volume and behavioral development in autism. 
  • Are outcomes of extremely preterm infants improving? Impact of Bayley assessment on outcomes. 
  • Articulation development in children with cleft lip/palate. 
  • At 6-9 months, human infants know the meanings of many common nouns. 
  • Bayesian Word Learning in Multiple Language Environments. 
  • 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. 
  • Cross-linguistic studies of directionality in first language acquisition: the Japanese data--a response to O'Grady, Suzuki-Wei & Cho 1986. 
  • 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. 
  • Discriminating signs: perceptual precursors to acquiring a visual-gestural language. 
  • Discrimination of phonemic vowel length by Japanese infants. 
  • Early communicative gestures prospectively predict language development and executive function in early childhood. 
  • Early language development in children exposed to or infected with human immunodeficiency virus. 
  • Early literacy gains in children with cochlear implants. 
  • 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. 
  • Heterogeneous association between engrailed-2 and autism in the CPEA network. 
  • HomeBank: An Online Repository of Daylong Child-Centered Audio Recordings. 
  • Individual common variants exert weak effects on the risk for autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Klinefelter syndrome: expanding the phenotype and identifying new research directions. 
  • Language-general biases and language-specific experience contribute to phonological detail in toddlers' word representations. 
  • Links between social and linguistic processing of speech in preschool children with autism: behavioral and electrophysiological measures. 
  • 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. 
  • Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6-mo-olds. 
  • Neurodevelopment in children with single-suture craniosynostosis and plagiocephaly without synostosis. 
  • Orthography and the development of reading processes: an eye-movement study of Chinese and English. 
  • Outcomes of unrelated umbilical cord blood transplantation for X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. 
  • 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 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 ordinal numerical competence in young children. 
  • The multidimensional nature of hyperspeech: evidence from Japanese vowel devoicing. 
  • 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. 
  • Using the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system in preschool classrooms with children with autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Vowels in infant-directed speech: More breathy and more variable, but not clearer.