Learning about emotions is an important part of children's social and communicative
development. How does children's emotion‐related vocabulary emerge over development …

Understanding words in unfolding speech requires the coordination of many skills to support
successful and rapid comprehension of word meanings. This multifaceted ability emerges …

Due to wide variability of typical language development, it has been historically difficult to
distinguish typical and delayed trajectories of early language growth. Improving our …

Toddlerhood is marked by advances in several lexico-semantic skills, including
improvements in the size and structure of the lexicon and increased efficiency in lexical …

Research on the early lexical-semantic system has described how toddlers organize word
representations based on semantic and phonological features. This study is a longitudinal …

In adults, nouns and verbs have varied and multilevel semantic interrelationships. In
children, evidence suggests that nouns and verbs also have semantic interrelationships …

Verbs and nouns vary in many ways—including in how they are used in language and in the
timing of their early learning. We compare the distribution of semantic features that comprise …

Verbs and nouns vary in many ways–including in how they are used in language and in the
timing of their early learning. We compare the distribution of semantic features that comprise …

Visually situated spoken words activate phonological, visual, and semantic representations
guiding overt attention during visual exploration. We compared the activation of these …

From their first interactions with caregivers, infants begin to make sense of a complex and
dynamic world brimming with sounds, words, sensations, and feelings. Two dimensions of …