The develo** infant creates a curriculum for statistical learning

LB Smith, S Jayaraman, E Clerkin, C Yu - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018‏ - cell.com
New efforts are using head cameras and eye-trackers worn by infants to capture everyday
visual environments from the point of view of the infant learner. From this vantage point, the …

The comprehension boost in early word learning: Older infants are better learners

E Bergelson - Child development perspectives, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Recent research has revealed that infants begin understanding words at around 6 months.
After that, infants' comprehension vocabulary increases gradually in a linear way over 8–18 …

[کتاب][B] Variability and consistency in early language learning: The Wordbank project

MC Frank, M Braginsky, D Yurovsky, VA Marchman - 2021‏ - books.google.com
A data-driven exploration of how children's language learning varies across different
languages, providing both a theoretical framework and reference. The Wordbank Project …

Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6-mo-olds

E Bergelson, RN Aslin - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017‏ - pnas.org
Recent research reported the surprising finding that even 6-mo-olds understand common
nouns [Bergelson E, Swingley D (2012) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109: 3253–3258]. However …

Infants who are rarely spoken to nevertheless understand many words

R Foushee, M Srinivasan - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2024‏ - pnas.org
Theories of language development—informed largely by studies of Western, middleclass
infants—have highlighted the language that caregivers direct to children as a key driver of …

Adult responses to infant prelinguistic vocalizations are associated with infant vocabulary: A home observation study

LD Lopez, EA Walle, GM Pretzer, AS Warlaumont - PLoS One, 2020‏ - journals.plos.org
This study used LENA recording devices to capture infants' home language environments
and examine how qualitative differences in adult responding to infant vocalizations related …

Finding structure in one child's linguistic experience

W Wang, WK Vong, N Kim, BM Lake - Cognitive science, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Neural network models have recently made striking progress in natural language
processing, but they are typically trained on orders of magnitude more language input than …

Linking language and categorization in infancy

B Ferguson, S Waxman - Journal of child language, 2017‏ - cambridge.org
Language exerts a powerful influence on our concepts. We review evidence documenting
the developmental origins of a precocious link between language and object categories in …

Making sense of sensory language: Acquisition of sensory knowledge by individuals with congenital sensory impairments

EE Campbell, E Bergelson - Neuropsychologia, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The present article provides a narrative review on how language communicates sensory
information and how knowledge of sight and sound develops in individuals born deaf or …

Bilingual toddlers' comprehension of mixed sentences is asymmetrical across their two languages

CE Potter, E Fourakis, E Morin‐Lessard… - Developmental …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
In bilingual language environments, infants and toddlers listen to two separate languages
during the same key years that monolingual children listen to just one and bilinguals rarely …