It is with renewed appreciation for the size of the task that I come to writing the present
chapter. The number of special issues of journals dedicated to im/politeness these days …

Describes patterns of general communication development and of English specificity,
emphasizing individual patterns. This edition devotes more attention to individual …

A data-driven exploration of how children's language learning varies across different
languages, providing both a theoretical framework and reference. The Wordbank Project …

Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This comprehensive
textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak those languages. It brings …

A review of the literature on quantifying vocabulary richness gives the sense of a quest for
the Holy Grail–the search for a single, all-embracing, but elusive measure of the quality of …

For decades, a spirited debate has existed over whether infants' remarkable capacity to
learn words is shaped primarily by universal features of human language or by specific …

Some teachers and researchers may assume that when a learner knows one member of a
word family (eg, stimulate), the other members (eg, stimulant, stimulative) are relatively easy …

The composition of young children's vocabularies in 7 contrasting linguistic communities
was investigated. Mothers of 269 twenty‐month‐olds in Argentina, Belgium, France, Israel …

This study assessed executive function and mental state understanding in Korean
preschoolers. In Experiment 1, forty 3.5‐and 4‐year‐old Koreans showed ceiling …

Words do not all connect to the world in the same way. Some words basically point and refer
to things in the world, while others organize the world into semantic systems and name …