For this study, we evaluated the independent and additive predictive effects of psychological maltreatment on an array of behavioral problems, symptoms, and disorders in a large national sample of clinic-referred children and adolescents drawn from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Core Data Set (CDS; see Layne, Briggs-King, & Courtois, 2014). We analyzed a subsample of 5,616 youth wi...

Objectives. Previous research has shown that the acquisition of personal pronouns benefits from input with higher amounts stable reference. This paper aims to provide more evidence how is structured. The language under study Slovak, a pro-drop language, allowing extend verb marking. Participants and setting. longitudinal follows speech directed three children in two families age 1;9 3;0. Hypoth...

Foreigner-directed and Lombard speech are two examples of speech modes that have increased intelligibility compared to normal speech. Investigating the interactions between altered speech modes and phonological contrasts may throw light on the question of which details are vital in intelligibility enhancement. The present study compares the production of vowel shortening in English, a duration-...

Language acquisition represents one of the great learning achievements in human cognitive development. Perhaps, this process takes place in a relatively automatic manner in which, simply through exposure to language input, the child configures her language organ to coincide with the structure of the maternal language. In this context, the problem of the vast uncertainty between speech input and...

We address the question whether children can acquire mature use of higher-level grammatical choices from the linguistic input, given only general prior knowledge and learning biases. We do so on the basis of a case study with the dative alternation in English, building on a study by De Marneffe et al. (2012) who model the production of the dative alternation by seven young children, using data ...