Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing, and artificial intelli...

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
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English-Corpora: NOW 10 billion word corpus from web-based newspapers and magazines, 2010 through yesterday

Der umfangreiche NOW-Korpus (www.english-corpora.org/now/) ist für aktuelle Zeitungstexte (ab 2010) glaub ich gut geeignet. Ansonsten sind die Tools und Korpora der Seite english-corpora.org generell nicht schlecht (detailliertere Suchen sind auch mit Registrierung möglich).

Frequency, redundancy, and context in bilingual acquisition | Journal of Child Language | Cambridge Core Frequency, redundancy, and context in bilingual acquisition

New paper with Paul Ibboston, Antje Quick & Nikolas Koch: #Frequency, #redundancy, and #context in bilingual #LanguageAcquisition doi.org/10.1017/S030...

Background: a child looking out of a pair of binoculars. Text overlay: Latest from the Baby Blog - Towards a science of both variability and consistency in infant development by Leher Singh, Dean D'Souza and Michael C. Frank

New Baby Blog post by @lehersingh.bsky.social, Dean D'Souza and Michael C. Frank: Towards a science of both variability and consistency in infant development #infantstudies #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #DevelopmentalPsychology infantstudies.org/towards-a-sc...