This article reviews the some of the most widely used methods used for studying children's
language acquisition including (1) spontaneous/naturalistic, diary, parental report data,(2) …

Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

Previous research suggests that English-speaking children comprehend agent–patient verb
passives earlier than experiencer–theme verb passives (Maratsos, Fox, Becker, & Chalkley …

Children's difficulty understanding passives in English has been attributed to the syntactic
complexity, overall frequency, cue reliability, and/or incremental processing of this …

We show that children's syntactic production is immediately affected by individual
experiences of structures and verb–structure pairings within a dialogue, but that these …

This chapter outlines a constructivist account of the process of language acquisition. It
summarizes the constructivist account of development, and the current state of the empirical …

The implicit learning account of syntactic priming proposes that the same mechanism
underlies syntactic priming and language development, providing a link between a child and …

We used eye-tracking to investigate if and when children show an incremental bias to
assume that the first noun phrase in a sentence is the agent (first-NP-as-agent bias) while …

Theories of language acquisition vary significantly in their assumptions regarding the
content of children's early syntactic representations and how they subsequently develop …

By about age three, English-learning children begin to understand passive sentences with
familiar verbs. We probed the nature of children's linguistic representations by asking …