This paper provides an overview of the features of caregiver input that facilitate language
learning across early childhood. We discuss three dimensions of input quality: interactive …

Humans communicate with small children in unusual and highly conspicuous ways (child-
directed communication (CDC)), which enhance social bonding and facilitate language …

Explicit Learning in the L2 Classroom offers a unique five-prong (theoretical, empirical,
methodological, pedagogical, and model building) approach to the issue of explicit learning …

This article reports on an individual differences study that investigated the role of implicit
statistical learning in the acquisition of syntax in children. One hundred children ages 4 …

Bilingual children experience more variation in their language environment than
monolingual children and this impacts their rate of language development with respect to …

Much recent scholarship has sought to identify the linguistic and social factors that favor the
expression or omission of subject pronouns in Spanish. This volume brings together leading …

Unter normalen Umständen erwerben alle Kinder ihre Muttersprache. Meist lernen sie in der
Kindheit nur diese eine Sprache. Diese erste Sprache bleibt in der Regel die wichtigste …

Why are children better language learners than adults despite being worse at a range of
other cognitive tasks? Here, we explore the role of multiword sequences in explaining L1 …

Reading picture books to pre-literate children is associated with improved language
outcomes, but the causal pathways of this relationship are not well understood. The present …

This chapter introduces the main facets of the notion of entrenchment and highlights its role
as a potential mediator between linguistic and psychological approaches to the study of …