Young children learn words from a variety of situations, including shared storybook reading.
A recent study by Horst et al. demonstrates that children learned more new words during …

Children learn most new words without direct teaching. Evidence for this comes primarily
from two sources. First, between the ages of 18 months and 18 years, children learn an …

In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based
theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in …

The authors present a Bayesian framework for understanding how adults and children learn
the meanings of words. The theory explains how learners can generalize meaningfully from …

Four experiments explored the processes that bridge between referent selection and word
learning. Twenty‐four‐month‐old infants were presented with several novel names during a …

Drawing on a modern neurocognitive framework, this full-color textbook introduces the entire
field of cognition through an engaging narrative. Emphasizing the common neural …

Although shared storybook reading is a common activity believed to improve the language
skills of preschool children, how children learn new vocabulary from such experiences has …

Two studies examined the robustness of vocabulary learning through overhearing by testing
48 2‐year‐olds in contexts in which a potentially distracting activity was present (Studies 1 …

(Helen Keller, 1904) Acknowledgements. The National Institutes of Health (HD-28730 and
DC-006829 to the first and second authors, respectively), the National Science Foundation …

Children's remarkable ability to map linguistic labels to referents in the world is commonly
called fast map**. The current study examined children's (N= 216) and adults'(N= 54) …