Data from parent reports on 1,803 children-derived from a normative study of the MacArthur
Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs)-are used to describe the typical course and …

What are the psychological, computational and neural underpinnings of language? Are
these neurocognitive correlates dedicated to language? Do different parts of language …

A comprehensive theory of child language acquisition requires an evidential base that is
representative of the typological diversity present in the world's 7000 or so languages …

Recent research in artificial intelligence and machine learning has largely emphasized
general-purpose learning and ever-larger training sets and more and more compute. In …

This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers,
written by one of the founders of this new field. Using examples from a wide range of …

Although deep learning has historical roots going back decades, neither the term" deep
learning" nor the approach was popular just over five years ago, when the field was …

Despite a multitude of empirical studies, little consensus exists on whether neural networks
are able to generalise compositionally, a controversy that, in part, stems from a lack of …

Children learn language more easily than adults, though when and why this ability declines
have been obscure for both empirical reasons (underpowered studies) and conceptual …

Current language models can generate high-quality text. Are they simply copying text they
have seen before, or have they learned generalizable linguistic abstractions? To tease apart …

A proper understanding of intelligibility is at the heart of effective pronunciation teaching,
and with it, successful teaching of speaking and listening. Far from being an optional'add-it …