Humans differ in innumerable ways, with considerable variation observable at every level of
description, from the molecular to the social. Traditionally, linguistic and psycholinguistic …

The abilities to understand and use language represent two of the most important
developmental competencies that children must master during the first 3years of life. Over …

Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases
creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

The Psychology of Language is a thorough revision and update of the popular second
edition. It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language …

Children vary greatly in the number of words they know when they enter school, a major
factor influencing subsequent school and workplace success. This variability is partially …

The goal of this article is to make the case for a radical exemplar account of child language
acquisition, under which unwitnessed forms are produced and comprehended by on-the-fly …

Variability in children's language acquisition is likely due to a number of cognitive and social
variables. The current study investigated whether individual differences in statistical learning …

The early phases of syntactic acquisition are characterized by many input frequency and
item effects, which argue against theories assuming innate access to classical syntactic …

There are, however, major debates as to what they bring to this language learning: do they
come with innate, specifically syntactic skills or, rather, with more general cognitive and …