Learning is using past experiences to inform new behaviors and actions. Because all
experiences are unique, learning always requires some generalization. An effective way of …

When speaking to infants, adults often produce speech that differs systematically from that
directed to other adults. To quantify the acoustic properties of this speech style across a wide …

Many experimental research designs require images of novel objects. Here we introduce the
Novel Object and Unusual Name (NOUN) Database. This database contains 64 primary …

Recent research reported the surprising finding that even 6-mo-olds understand common
nouns [Bergelson E, Swingley D (2012) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109: 3253–3258]. However …

Understanding worldwide patterns of language diversity has long been a goal for
evolutionary scientists, linguists and philosophers. Research over the past decade has …

The landscape of service provision for young children with hearing loss has shifted in recent
years as a result of newborn hearing screening and the early provision of interventions …

This book provides an extensive overview of research into child production and perception.
It focuses primarily on the first two years of life because, for the majority of children, that …

During speech perception, listeners make judgments about the phonological category of
sounds by taking advantage of multiple acoustic cues for each phonological contrast …

Research suggests that variability of exemplars supports successful object categorization;
however, the scope of variability's support at the level of higher-order generalization remains …

In this article, I present a selective review of research on speech perception development
and its relation to reference, word learning, and other aspects of language acquisition …