Children need to learn the demands of their native language in the early vocabulary
development phase. In this dynamic process, parental multimodal input may shape …

Memory is fundamental for comprehending and segmenting the flow of activity around us
into units called “events”. Here, we investigate the effect of the movement dynamics of …

Young children have difficulties in understanding untypical causal relations. Although we
know that hearing a causal description facilitates this understanding, less is known about …

This study focuses on adult responses to children's verb uses, the information they provide,
and how they change over time. We analyzed longitudinal samples from four children …

Before infants produce words, they can discriminate changes in motion event components
such as manner (how an action is performed) and path (trajectory of an action). Individual …

Sound symbolism, the iconic link between speech sounds and meanings, helps children's
verb learning. In sound symbolically rich languages such as Turkish, hearing sound …

It is well known that infants undergo developmental change in how they respond to
language-relevant visual contrasts. For example, when viewing motion events, infants' …

The development of event representations happens in interaction with language acquisition.
This acquisition process involves learning to form associations between verbs and …

The study implements the interdisciplinary differential approach to the identification of
predictors of learning, which explain the presence and development of linguistic abilities in …

This study investigated whether crosslinguistic differences in the expression of causality
influence causal conceptualization of observed events in 3-to 4-year-old Swiss-German …