Language Development Research
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Congratulations to Kin Chung Jacky Chan, Anna Theakston, and Silke Brandt on the publication of their new paper on children's acquisition of relative clauses! ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/9...
September 4, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Congratulations to Kin Chung Jacky Chan, Anna Theakston, and Silke Brandt on the publication of their new paper on children's acquisition of relative clauses! ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/9...
New paper by Alvin W. M. Tan, Kirsten Read, Sophia Gamboa, Janet Bang, and @vmarchman.bsky.social showing text in children's books is lexically and grammatically richer than spontaneous child-directed speech. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/9...
August 2, 2026 at 10:10 PM
New paper by Alvin W. M. Tan, Kirsten Read, Sophia Gamboa, Janet Bang, and @vmarchman.bsky.social showing text in children's books is lexically and grammatically richer than spontaneous child-directed speech. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/9...
New research by @ashleyrblake.bsky.social, Richenda Wright, Ewa Dabrowska, Nick Riches & Elodie Winckel in LDR, linking individual differences in analogical reasoning with linguistic outcomes of children with DLD and their typically developing peers. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/9...
July 27, 2026 at 12:56 PM
New research by @ashleyrblake.bsky.social, Richenda Wright, Ewa Dabrowska, Nick Riches & Elodie Winckel in LDR, linking individual differences in analogical reasoning with linguistic outcomes of children with DLD and their typically developing peers. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/9...
Congratulations to Katerina Palasis and Mar Cordero Rull on the publication of their new paper on children's acquisition of French linguistic variants! ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/9...
July 12, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Congratulations to Katerina Palasis and Mar Cordero Rull on the publication of their new paper on children's acquisition of French linguistic variants! ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/9...
Check out a new LDR paper by Adele Wallis,
@mwslp.bsky.social, @vanigupta.bsky.social, and Matthew McKenzie, PhD, on narrative development in adolescents!
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@mwslp.bsky.social, @vanigupta.bsky.social, and Matthew McKenzie, PhD, on narrative development in adolescents!
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June 17, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Check out a new LDR paper by Adele Wallis,
@mwslp.bsky.social, @vanigupta.bsky.social, and Matthew McKenzie, PhD, on narrative development in adolescents!
ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/9...
@mwslp.bsky.social, @vanigupta.bsky.social, and Matthew McKenzie, PhD, on narrative development in adolescents!
ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/9...
Congratulations to Virginia Dubasik, Sara Kalhori Boroujerdi, and Rebecca Green on their new LDR paper on vocabulary teaching strategies in children's television programs!
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June 17, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Congratulations to Virginia Dubasik, Sara Kalhori Boroujerdi, and Rebecca Green on their new LDR paper on vocabulary teaching strategies in children's television programs!
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Congratulations to Megan Waller, Dhruv Nambiar, Anthony Tomasic, Madeline Elston, and Erik Thiessen on the publication of their new paper on children's narratives in Language Development Research! ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/9...
Characterizing children’s naturalistic narratives via machine learning
Storytelling is a fundamental human behavior, and narrative skill is predictive of success in many domains, such that the development of narrative skill is an important process in childhood and adoles...
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May 4, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Congratulations to Megan Waller, Dhruv Nambiar, Anthony Tomasic, Madeline Elston, and Erik Thiessen on the publication of their new paper on children's narratives in Language Development Research! ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/9...
Congratulations to Caroline Girardi Ferrari & Maity Siqueira on the publication of their new paper on figurative language comprehension in LDR! This is LDR's first publication to feature dual language abstracts (English and Brazilian Portuguese). Enjoy! ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/1...
Development of a figurative language comprehension instrument in Brazilian Portuguese: A pilot study with preschoolers
This study pilot-tests a figurative language comprehension instrument in Brazilian Portuguese, evaluating its applicability and sensitivity with preschoolers aged 3 to 6 years. The instrument comprehe...
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April 27, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Congratulations to Caroline Girardi Ferrari & Maity Siqueira on the publication of their new paper on figurative language comprehension in LDR! This is LDR's first publication to feature dual language abstracts (English and Brazilian Portuguese). Enjoy! ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/1...
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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Wishing everyone a joyous New Year!
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December 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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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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...
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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...
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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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.
ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...
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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...