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No evidence for an input frequency effect for children’s learning of participant role markers in Japanese
Ben Ambridge, Motoki Saito, Samuel David Jones, Tomoko Tatsumi, Kumiko Fukumura, Ayuno Kawakami and Colin Bannard
2026-09-22 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 408–447
Cleanup time in the Japanese nursery school: Socialization through multimodal directive sequences
Joseph Iseri
2026-09-10 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2026 • Special Issue: Multimodal Directive-Response Trajectories in Children's Language Socialization • 27–67
Putting lexical and semantic cues into discourse context: A multifactorial corpus study of relative clauses in child-directed and child speech
Kin Chung Jacky Chan, Anna Theakston and Silke Brandt
2026-09-05 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 345–407
The power of the page: Comparing richness in text and talk during book sharing with two-year-old children
Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Kirsten Read, Sophia Gamboa, Janet Yougi Bang and Virginia Marchman
2026-08-02 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 310–344
Nonverbal cognition as a predictor of linguistic outcomes in children with and without developmental language disorder
Ashley Rae Blake, Richenda Wright, Ewa Dabrowska, Nick Greatorex Riches and Elodie Winckel
2026-07-27 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 259–309
Learning to shift: How and when L1 and early L2 kindergarteners acquire the variability between Colloquial and Standard French
Katerina Palasis and Mar Cordero-Rull
2026-07-12 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 208–258
Sampling and analysis of personal narratives of adolescents: A systematic review of the literature
Adele Karen Wallis, Marleen F Westerveld, Vani Gupta and Matthew L McKenzie
2026-06-16 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 161–207
Exploring word characteristics and evidence-based vocabulary teaching strategies used in children’s television programs
Virginia L Dubasik, Sara Kalhori Boroujerdi and Rebecca C Greene
2026-06-15 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 125–169
Characterizing children’s naturalistic narratives via machine learning
Megan Christine Waller, Dhruv Nambiar, Anthony Tomasic, Madeline Elston and Erik Thiessen
2026-05-04 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 51–124
Development of a figurative language comprehension instrument in Brazilian Portuguese: A pilot study with preschoolers
Caroline Girardi Ferrari and Maity Siqueira
2026-04-27 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 21–50
Now directives in early development
Thea Cameron-Faulkner, Ava Gordon, Chen Zhao and Tine Breban
2026-03-27 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2026 • Special Issue: Multimodal Directive-Response Trajectories in Children's Language Socialization • 1–26
Reassessing the labial-coronal asymmetry in infants’ discrimination of medial consonants
Sharon Peperkamp and Megha Sundara
2026-02-14 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 1–20
‘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
2025-10-31 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
2025-08-03 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
2025-05-10 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2025 • Special Issue: Development of Metaphor Comprehension • 67–92