vocabulary

Common words, uncommon meanings: Evidence for widespread gender differences in word meaning

Communication relies on a shared understanding of word meaning; however, recent evidence suggests that individual variation in meaning exists even for common nouns. Understanding where and how this variation arises is therefore integral to …

Word prediction in context: An empirical investigation of core vocabulary

Core vocabulary is a topic of huge interest in linguistics and has been studied from a wide variety of perspectives, such as language learning, dictionary studies, and cross-linguistically. In many of these conceptions, word frequency is widely …

Core words in semantic representation

A central question in cognitive science is how semantic information is mentally represented. Two dominant theories of semantic representation are language-based distributional semantic models (which suggest that word meaning is based on which words …

A large, longitudinal audiovisual dataset recorded from the infant’s perspective

I put a camera on my toddler's head and this is the result

Picking up speed in understanding: Speech processing efficiency and vocabulary growth across the 2nd year

Longitudinal study of infants across the second year showing relationship between word learning and speech processing efficiency