This review article presents evidence for the claim that frequency effects are pervasive in
children's first language acquisition, and hence constitute a phenomenon that any …

In this article we review publications relevant to addressing widely reported claims in both
the academic and popular press that chimpanzees working memory (WM) is comparable to …

Children learn language more easily than adults, though when and why this ability declines
have been obscure for both empirical reasons (underpowered studies) and conceptual …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

In this study we argue that narrative storytelling and expository discussion, as 2 distinct
discourse genres, differ both in linguistic expression and in their underlying principles of …

This study reconsiders the acquisition of relative clauses based on data from two
sentencerepetition tasks. Usingmaterials modeled on the relative constructions of …

The Relativized Minimality approach to A′-dependencies (Friedmann et al., 2009) predicts
that headed object relative clauses (RCs) and which—questions are the most difficult, due to …

We present the results from four studies, two corpora and two experimental, which suggest
that English-and German-speaking children (3; 1–4; 9 years) use multiple constraints to …

The authors tested theoretically driven predictions as to the ways in which syntactic
awareness, or awareness of word order within sentences, might contribute to reading …