Nature Reviews Psychology - Learning words in context

Growing up with multiple siblings might negatively affect language development. This study examined the associations between birth order, sibling characteristics and parent-reported vocabulary size i....

Previous research suggests that acoustic features of infant-directed speech (IDS) might be beneficial for infants’ language development. However, cons…

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Caregivers often modulate their speech when interacting with infants, adapting a register that has been suggested to have attentional, affective and didactic purposes. The present preregistered study ...

In the current preregistered study, we tested n = 67 6-month-old Norwegian infants’ discrimination of a native vowel contrast /y-i/ and a non-native (…

Associations between shared book reading, daily screen time and infants’ vocabulary size