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Differences in sentence complexity in the text of children’s picture books and child-directed speech

Can e-books support low SES parental mediation to enrich children’s vocabulary?

The impact of the interactional setting on the choice of referring expressions in narratives

Complement or adjunct? The syntactic principle English-speaking children learn when producing determiner–noun combinations in their early speech

Prosodic constraints on children’s use of grammatical morphemes

What do monolingual and bilingual children with and without SLI produce when phonology is too complex?

The effect of hearing impairment on the production of prominences: The case of French-speaking school-aged children using cochlear implants and children with normal hearing

The linguistic expression of causal relations in picture-based narratives: A comparative study of bilingual and monolingual children with TLD and DLD

Poor oral discourse skills are the key cognitive-linguistic weakness of Chinese poor comprehenders: A three-year longitudinal study

How mother and child co-(re) construct non-conventional productions in spontaneous interaction

Reciprocal relations between syntax and tense/agreement morphology in children’s interpretation of input: A look at children with specific language impairment

Lexically driven or early structure building? Constructing an early grammar in German child language

Effects of grammatical category and morphology on fast mapping in typically developing and late talking toddlers

Acquisition of Finnish derivational morphology: School-age children and young adults

Syntactic cues to the noun and verb distinction in Mandarin child-directed speech

Using strategic pauses during shared reading with preschoolers: Time for prediction is better than time for reflection when learning new words

Indices of social knowledge in Italian-speaking children: Relations between personal pronouns, verb conjugations and mental state language

Interaction between two determiner systems: The acquisition of English articles by a Hebrew-speaking child

A dynamic network analysis of emergent grammar

Productive use of syntactic categories in typical young French children

Profiling complex word usage in the speech of preschool children: Frequency patterns and transparency characteristics

Grouping affects children’s interpretation of a label for an animal, but not for an artifact

On the inefficiency of negative feedback in Russian morphology L1 acquisition

Scalar implicatures in Chinese children with reading difficulties

What does retelling ‘tell’ about children’s reading proficiency?

Developmental changes in the frequency and complexity of mothers’ internal state utterances across the second year

Intrasentential binding and extrasentential binding in child and adult Korean

Learning to structure sentences through the acquisition of grammatical words: Introduction to the special issue on the role of grammatical words in young children’s syntactic development