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‘Broccoli is candy’: The role of metaphors in children’s persuasive communication
Chiara Pompei, Serena Lecce, Paola Del Sette, Elena Didoni, Luca Bischetti and Valentina Bambini
2025-10-30 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Special Issue: Development of Metaphor Comprehension • 204–236
Trajectories of early vocabulary growth in typically-developing and late-talking Hebrew-speaking toddlers: The role of comprehension
Hila Gendler-Shalev, Virginia Marchman and Esther Dromi
2025-10-04 Volume 5 • Issue 3 • 2025 • 302–328
The role of the environmental context in shaping teachers’ linguistic input
Nicola Lester, Katherine E. Twomey and Anna Theakston
2025-09-18 Volume 5 • Issue 3 • 2025 • 276–301
Models of human learning should capture the multimodal complexity and communicative goals of the natural learning environment
Jessica E Kosie, Mira Nencheva, Justin Junge and Casey Lew-Williams
2025-09-04 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Special Issue: What Large Language Models (LLMs) can('t) tell us about child language acquisition • 188–220
A vocabulary checklist for early lexical development in Tseltal
Marisa Casillas, Ruthe Foushee, Humbertina Gómez Pérez, Juan Méndez Girón, Gilles Polian, Kennedy Casey and Penelope Brown
2025-08-02 Volume 5 • Issue 3 • 2025 • 245–275
Metaphor comprehension in preschool children: Individual differences and metaphor-related factors affecting children’s metaphor comprehension
Pelin Küçükerdoğan and Deniz Tahiroğlu
2025-07-25 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Special Issue: Development of Metaphor Comprehension • 172–203
Child-directed speech in Ku Waru and Nungon (Papua New Guinea)
Hannah Sarvasy, Alan Rumsey, Josua Dahmen, John Onga and Stephanie Yam
2025-07-15 Volume 5 • Issue 3 • 2025 • 191–244
Decoupling literalist behavior from children’s early metaphor comprehension abilities
Mary Beth Neff and Ingrid Lossius Falkum
2025-07-02 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Special Issue: Development of Metaphor Comprehension • 130–171
Effects of reduced exposure to societal language on vocabulary and morphological knowledge of bilingual children
Anat Prior and Gal Pedael
2025-06-23 Volume 5 • Issue 3 • 2025 • 155-190
Quality of remotely-collected gaze data in autistic and non-spectrum children
Rhiannon Luyster, Taylor Boyd, Amelia Steele, Thuy Buonocore, Catherine Sancimino and Sudha Arunachalam
2025-06-06 Volume 5 • Issue 3 • 2025 • 131–154
Making beds and dying of boredom literally: A developmental study on the comprehension of nonliteral uses of language in autism
Marta Ponciano, Agustín Vicente, José Vicente Hernández Conde and Elena Castroviejo
2025-05-23 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Special Issue: Development of Metaphor Comprehension • 93–129
How is language knowledge related to verbal working memory among preschool children? Evidence from bilinguals and monolinguals
Farzaneh Anjomshoae, Elena Nicoladis and Anahita Shokrkon
2025-05-16 Volume 5 • Issue 3 • 2025 • 104–130
Not early, not late, but developing: Children's “good-enough” understanding of metaphors
Sarah Ferrara, Marc Aguert and Christelle Declercq
2025-05-11 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Special Issue: Development of Metaphor Comprehension • 67–92
Phonological deficits in developmental dyslexia in a psycholinguistic framework: Unguided phonological encoding
Aki Tapionkaski and Sanna Tapionkaski
2025-05-09 Volume 5 • Issue 3 • 2025 • 72–103
Comparing language input in homes of young blind and sighted children: Insights from daylong recordings
Erin E Campbell, Lillianna Righter, Eugenia Lukin and Elika Bergelson
2025-05-07 Volume 5 • Issue 3 • 2025 • 33–71
Novel metaphor processing in young autistic children
Isabel Martín-González, Kristen Frances Schroeder, Elena Castroviejo, Ingrid Lossius Falkum and Agustín Vicente
2025-04-10 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Special Issue: Development of Metaphor Comprehension • 28–66
Phonological representations at the onset of reading acquisition: Steady use of phonological detail from preschool to 2nd grade
Anne Bauch, Claudia K Friedrich and Ulrike Schild
2025-03-07 Volume 5 • Issue 3 • 2025 • 1–32
Metaphor comprehension in preschool children
Ariel Starr, Taylor Petersen and Sahana Sridhar
2025-03-05 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Special Issue: Development of Metaphor Comprehension • 1–29
Can sign-naïve adults learn about the phonological regularities of an unfamiliar sign language from minimal exposure?
Julia Hofweber, Lizzy Aumônier, Vikki Janke, Marianne Gullberg and Chloe Marshall
2024-11-26 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2024 • 455-480
Whither developmental psycholinguistics?
Victor Gomes
2024-11-07 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Special Issue: What Large Language Models (LLMs) can('t) tell us about child language acquisition • 144–187
Learning and communication pressures in neural networks: Lessons from emergent communication
Lukas Paul Achatius Galke and Limor Raviv
2024-11-07 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Special Issue: What Large Language Models (LLMs) can('t) tell us about child language acquisition • 116–140
No evidence that age affects different bilingual learner groups differently: Rebuttal to van der Slik, Schepens, Bongaerts, and van Hout (2021)
Joshua Hartshorne
2024-11-07 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2024 • 431-454
The development of color terms in Shipibo-Konibo children
Martin Fortier, Danielle Kellier, Maria Fernández Flecha and Michael C Frank
2024-09-26 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2024 • 399-430
The MacArthur Inventario del Desarrollo de Habilidades Comunicativas III: A measure of language development in Spanish-speaking two- to four-year-olds
Donna Jackson-Maldonado, Margaret Friend, Virginia Marchman, Adriana Weisleder, Alejandra Auza, Barbara Conboy, Marta Rubio-Codina and Philip S Dale
2024-08-30 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2024 • 361-398