Child language acquisition epitomises a uniquely rapid and sophisticated learning process underpinned by a complex interplay between innate cognitive mechanisms and environmental influences. Infants ...

The focus of this part of the project is on child language acquisition. We investigate how children deal with overabundance and defectiveness in their language input, which overabundant forms they ...

Syntactic priming is a cornerstone phenomenon in our understanding of language acquisition, reflecting how exposure to specific sentence structures subtly shapes both immediate language use and ...

Child Development, Vol. 87, No. 1, SPECIAL SECTION: Epigenetics, Child Behavior and Development: Unraveling the Gene-Environment Interaction (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016), pp. 184-193 (10 pages) Variability ...

With a new baby, it is a rite of passage for parents to worry about their adequacy as role models in the face of raising another human. How to keep them safe, what to feed them, and how to educate ...

Richy is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at CU Boulder. His research interests include bilingualism and it impacts on syntax, semantics, phonology, ...