Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

Building lexical knowledge is one of the most fundamental developments in early childhood;
as such development is associated with children's later academic achievement and other …

Morphological complexity (MC) is a relatively new construct in second language acquisition
(SLA). After critically discussing existing approaches to calculating MC in first-and second …

Determining how and why adult outcomes of heritage speaker (HS) bilingualism differ from
monolinguals is difficult because it requires the reconstruction of developmental paths from …

Constructivist approaches to language acquisition predict that form-function map**s are
derived from distributional patterns in the input, and their contextual embedding. This …

Bilingual children experience a rapid shift in language preference and input dominance from
L1 to L2 upon entering kindergarten when regular contact with L2 starts. Though this change …

Learners of most languages are faced with the task of acquiring words to talk about number
and quantity. Much is known about the order of acquisition of number words as well as the …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to
support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE …

The aim of this large-scale, preregistered, cross-linguistic study was to mediate between
theories of the acquisition of inflectional morphology, which lie along a continuum from rule …

Morphology is the study of the relationship between form and meaning. The study of
morphology involves understanding the rules and processes that underlie word formation …