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

Making adults learn from larger linguistic units can facilitate learning article–noun
agreement. Here we ask whether initial exposure to larger units improves learning by …

What aspects of word meaning are important in early word learning and lexico-semantic
network development? Adult lexico-semantic systems flexibly encode multiple types of …

Objective: The objective of this study was to characterize the dynamics of real-time lexical
access, including lexical competition among phonologically similar words, and spreading …

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 …

Children fast‐map new words to their referents early on but may not show robust retention of
the learning of word–object map**s until much later. This study examines whether …

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 typical adults, recognizing both spoken and written words is thought to be served by a
process of competition between candidates in the lexicon. In recent years, work has used …

Semantic feature production norms have several desirable characteristics that have
supported models of representation and processing in adults. However, several key …