Language Development Research

Language Development Research, Volume 5, Issue 3 is now available for download on the LDR website. Thank you to all of our contributors!

Wishing everyone a joyous New Year!

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Announcing publication of the full Special Issue of LDR on the Development of Metaphor. Thank you to Ingrid Lossius Falkum and Mary Beth Neff, PhD for organizing this volume and serving as Guest Editors! ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/issue/100/in...

Congratulations to Chiara Pompei, Serena Lecce, Paola Del Sette, Elena Didoni, Luca Bischetti & Valentina Bambini on publication of The Role of Metaphor in Children's Persuasive Communication in the LDR Special Issue on Development of Metaphor Comprehension. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

Congratulations to Hila Gendler Shalev, Virginia Marchman, and Esther Dromi on their new paper in LDR! Learn what variation in expressive vocabulary skill can tell us about children's later language development. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

New paper by @jesskosie.bsky.social, Mira Nencheva, Justin Junge & Casey Lew-Williams "Models of human learning should capture the multimodal complexity and communicative goals of the natural learning environment." in the LDR Special Issue on LLMs. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/7...

Congrats to Marisa Casillas, @ruthefoushee.bsky.social, Humbertina Gómez Pérez, Juan Méndez Girón, Gilles Polian, Kennedy Casey & Penelope Brown on their work adapting the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories for Tseltal, out today in LDR ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

Read new work by Pelin Küçükerdoğan and Deniz Tahiroğlu on children's metaphor comprehension in Language Development Research! ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

Excited to share this newly published paper on child-directed speech in the Ku Waru and Nungon languages of Papua New Guinea. Congratulations to Hannah Sarvasy, Alan Rumsey, Josua Dahmen, John Onga, and Stephanie Yam! ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

Congratulations to Mary Beth Neff and Ingrid Lossius Falkum on publication of their new paper "Decoupling literalist behavior from children’s early metaphor comprehension abilities" in LDR as part of a special issue on development of metaphor comprehension. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

Congrats to Anat Prior & Gal Pedael on publication of their new paper on bilingual language development in Language Development Research! It illustrates differential effects of type and token frequencies in the input on children's lexical & morphol. knowledge. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/7...

Congratulations to Rhiannon Luyster, Taylor Boyd, Amelia Steele, Thuy Buonocore, Catherine Sancimino, and Sudha Arunchalam on the publication of their paper "Quality of remotely-collected gaze data in autistic and nonspectrum children" in LDR! ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/6...

Check out important new work on metaphor comprehension in autistic children in Language Development Research. Kudos to Marta Ponciano Lázaro, Agustín Vicente, Jose Vicente Hernández-Conde, and Elena Castroviejo! ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

New work by Farzaneh Anjomshoae, Elena Nicoladis, and Anahita Shokrkon, Ph.D. suggests that nonword repetition may be relatively independent of vocabulary knowledge in bilinguals. Read more about this important work in Language Development Research. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/6...

Never heard of this journal? Check it out and follow!! Completely open access - great editorial team - all about language development. What more do you want!! #speechies #childlanguage #openaccess

Do preschool children grasp metaphors? Check out new work by Ariel Starr, Taylor Petersen, and Sahana Sridhar to learn more. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/7...

Sharing a new paper on novel metaphor processing in autistic children by Isabel Martín-González, Kristen Frances Schroeder, Elena Castroviejo, Ingrid Lossius Falkum & Agustín Vicente. If this topic interests you, please consider submitting your work. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

Important new work by Sarah Ferrara, Mark Aguert, and Christelle Declercq on children's understanding of metaphors just out in Language Development Research! This paper is part of a special issue on the Development of Metaphor Comprehension.
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Phonological deficits in developmental dyslexia in a psycholinguistic framework: Unguided phonological encoding Developmental dyslexia (DD) is associated with phonological deficits. In this article, we will discuss the phonological deficits occurring in DD by applying psycholinguistic models of speech productio...

Excited to share work by Aki Tapionkaski and Sanna Tapionkaski presenting a new framework for understanding phonological deficits in speech, language and reading disorders. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

We are looking for a new Editor in Chief! For more information, please see the information on our home page - ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu - Self nominations are welcome!

A friendly reminder that we are approaching the first deadline for an initial expression of interest letter. Submit your proposal until the 15th of April and do Big Team Science across ManyLanguages with us 🎉

Syntactic adaptation and word learning in children and adults Syntactic adaptation may be a key mechanism underlying children’s learning of novel words. Havron et al. (2019) exposed French-speaking children (ages 3 to 4) to a speaker biased toward using either...

Another new year, another fantastic new article - this one from Elizabeth Swanson, @mcxfrank.bsky.social and Judith Degen: Syntactic adaptation and word learning in children and adults. Like every LDR article, it's free to read, free to publish! doi.org/10.34842/0ef...

I am also excited to announce a call for papers for our special issue on Metaphor Comprehension Development (in @langdevres.bsky.social) 🙌

Submissions due March 1st, 2024 - for more information about the call please visit the journal website: ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu

this blog post is super cool and interesting even if you're not a psychologist

NEW: Following a breach of Registered Report evaluation norms, the Managing Board of @pci-regreports.bsky.social has removed the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General from our list of PCI RR-interested journals & is launching an updated policy.

Read our full statement: osf.io/y23gm

A guide for many authors: Writing manuscripts in large collaborations

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“We emphasize the importance of deliberate leadership and describe five general strategies that lead authors can employ to maximize opportunities and navigate challenges”

Science is for everyone. We set up Language Development Research because we don't believe in locking articles behind paywalls, in charging taxpayers and universities to publish research they've already funded, or in privileging papers that are "exciting" over those committed to scientific rigour.

Another NEW platinum-open-access article with important real-world implications:

"Bilingual children’s comprehension of code-switching at an uninformative adjective"

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