Although research suggests that responsive interactions are imperative for language
development, the advent of mobile technology means that parent-child exchanges are often …

The intermodal preferential looking paradigm (IPLP) has proven to be a revolutionary
method for the examination of infants' emerging language knowledge. In the IPLP, infants' …

This second edition of Child Psychology reflects the increasingly sophisticated and varied
research methods used to examine the highly complex interactions contributing to children's …

This topically-organized text provides a comprehensive overview of infant development with
a strong theoretical and research base. Readers gain a clear understanding of infant …

This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges
the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic …

The current study examines how gestural representations of motion events arise from
linguistic expressions in Farsi, as this language offers many unique characteristics; …

Across languages and event types (ie, agentive and nonagentive motion, transfer, change of
state, attach/detach), goal paths are privileged over source paths in the linguistic encoding …

Fundamental to amassing a lexicon of relational terms (ie, verbs, prepositions) is the ability
to abstract and categorize spatial relations such as a figure (eg, boy) moving along a path …

In the world, the manners and paths of motion events take place together, but in language,
these features are expressed separately. How do infants learn to process motion events in …

Introduction Infant-directed speech (IDS) refers to how people in many societies talk with
young children. Compared to speech directed to an adult (ADS), IDS includes a slower rate …