Language Development Research
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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...
October 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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...
October 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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...
September 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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...
August 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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...
July 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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...
July 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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...
July 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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...
June 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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...
June 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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...
May 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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...
May 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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...
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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...
May 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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...
May 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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...
May 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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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May 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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.
ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...
ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...
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...
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...
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May 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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!
April 19, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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!
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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 🎉
Great news! 🎉 ManyLanguages now accepts proposal for #BigTeamScience projects which aim at replicating experimental linguistic phenomena across many languages. Read more here: t.co/62sBzDql2S
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April 9, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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 🎉
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...
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...
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January 15, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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...
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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
Submissions due March 1st, 2024 - for more information about the call please visit the journal website: ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu
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November 20, 2023 at 8:16 PM
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
Submissions due March 1st, 2024 - for more information about the call please visit the journal website: ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu
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this blog post is super cool and interesting even if you're not a psychologist
I just thought “this sounds like the type of thing I’d make up for a blog post” and lo and behold www.the100.ci/2023/06/13/d...
October 18, 2023 at 3:56 AM
this blog post is super cool and interesting even if you're not a psychologist
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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
Read our full statement: osf.io/y23gm
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October 12, 2023 at 2:57 PM
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
Read our full statement: osf.io/y23gm
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A guide for many authors: Writing manuscripts in large collaborations
doi.org/10.1111/spc3... 🔓
“We emphasize the importance of deliberate leadership and describe five general strategies that lead authors can employ to maximize opportunities and navigate challenges”
doi.org/10.1111/spc3... 🔓
“We emphasize the importance of deliberate leadership and describe five general strategies that lead authors can employ to maximize opportunities and navigate challenges”
September 23, 2023 at 5:07 AM
A guide for many authors: Writing manuscripts in large collaborations
doi.org/10.1111/spc3... 🔓
“We emphasize the importance of deliberate leadership and describe five general strategies that lead authors can employ to maximize opportunities and navigate challenges”
doi.org/10.1111/spc3... 🔓
“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.
September 22, 2023 at 7:19 PM
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.