Individual differences in language acquisition and processing

E Kidd, S Donnelly, MH Christiansen - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018‏ - cell.com
Humans differ in innumerable ways, with considerable variation observable at every level of
description, from the molecular to the social. Traditionally, linguistic and psycholinguistic …

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 …

Grounded language acquisition through the eyes and ears of a single child

WK Vong, W Wang, AE Orhan, BM Lake - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Starting around 6 to 9 months of age, children begin acquiring their first words, linking
spoken words to their visual counterparts. How much of this knowledge is learnable from …

What artificial neural networks can tell us about human language acquisition

A Warstadt, SR Bowman - Algebraic structures in natural …, 2022‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Rapid progress in machine learning for natural language processing has the potential to
transform debates about how humans learn language. However, the learning environments …

Young children's screen time during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 12 countries

C Bergmann, N Dimitrova, K Alaslani… - Scientific reports, 2022‏ - nature.com
Older children with online schooling requirements, unsurprisingly, were reported to have
increased screen time during the first COVID-19 lockdown in many countries. Here, we ask …

A collaborative approach to infant research: Promoting reproducibility, best practices, and theory‐building

MC Frank, E Bergelson, C Bergmann, A Cristia… - Infancy, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
The ideal of scientific progress is that we accumulate measurements and integrate these into
theory, but recent discussion of replicability issues has cast doubt on whether psychological …

Infant sustained attention but not joint attention to objects at 9 months predicts vocabulary at 12 and 15 months

C Yu, SH Suanda, LB Smith - Developmental science, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Vocabulary differences early in development are highly predictive of later language learning
as well as achievement in school. Early word learning emerges in the context of tightly …

Learning a sign language does not hinder acquisition of a spoken language

E Pontecorvo, M Higgins, J Mora… - Journal of Speech …, 2023‏ - pubs.asha.org
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine whether and how learning American Sign
Language (ASL) is associated with spoken English skills in a sample of ASL–English …

Routine language: Speech directed to infants during home activities

CS Tamis‐LeMonda, S Custode, Y Kuchirko… - Child …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Everyday activities are replete with contextual cues for infants to exploit in the service of
learning words. Nelson's (1985) script theory guided the hypothesis that infants participate in …

[HTML][HTML] Deaf children of hearing parents have age-level vocabulary growth when exposed to American Sign Language by 6 months of age

N Caselli, J Pyers, AM Lieberman - The Journal of Pediatrics, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Objective To examine whether children who are deaf or hard of hearing who have hearing
parents can develop age-level vocabulary skills when they have early exposure to a sign …