languageacquisition

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 …

Category clustering and morphological learning

Inflectional affixes expressing the same grammatical category (e.g., subject agreement) tend to appear in the same morphological position in the word. We hypothesize that this cross-linguistic tendency toward category clustering is at least partly …

The role of stimulus-specific perceptual fluency in statistical learning

Humans have the ability to learn surprisingly complicated statistical information in a variety of modalities and situations, often based on relatively little input. These statistical learning (SL) skills appear to underlie many kinds of learning, but …

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

Generic noun phrases in child speech