Adults commonly struggle with perceiving and recognizing the sounds and words of a
second language (L2), especially when the L2 sounds do not have a counterpart in the …

Fourteen‐month‐olds are sensitive to mispronunciations of the vowels and consonants in
familiar words (N. Mani & K. Plunkett (2007), Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 252; D …

To succeed at cross-situational word learning, learners must infer word-object map**s by
attending to the statistical co-occurrences of novel objects and labels across multiple …

Previous research has demonstrated that infants under 17 months have difficulty learning
novel words in the laboratory when the words differ by only one consonant sound …

This study introduces a method ideally suited for investigating toddlers' ability to detect
mispronunciations in lexical representations: pupillometry. Previous research has …

Cross‐situational statistical learning of words involves tracking co‐occurrences of auditory
words and objects across time to infer word‐referent map**s. Previous research has …

Associative word learning, the ability to pair a concept to a word, is an essential mechanism
for early language development. One common method by which researchers measure this …

The present study provides a formal account for three types of experimental findings
recurrently reported in the literature, yet not integrated into current L2 speech theories …

Cross‐situational word learning (XSWL) tasks present multiple words and candidate
referents within a learning trial such that word–referent pairings can be inferred only across …

Research has shown that novel words can be learned through the mechanism of statistical
or cross‐situational word learning (CSWL). So far, CSWL studies using adult populations …