Language Development and Disorders

This study analyzes 52,143 individuals to characterize paediatric speech and language disorders, identifying genetic associations and clinical patterns.

The paper investigates how brain regions supporting non-adjacent dependency learning develop in infants using fNIRS, finding left-hemispheric networks emerge and strengthen with auditory input.

The paper investigates prenatal language learning in newborns using EEG, finding evidence of discrimination between familiar and unfamiliar rhymes, prosodic learning, and correlations between maternal depression, fetal stress, and later language development.

This study provides the first large-scale empirical evidence of infant vocal category clustering and exploration during the first year of life, showing non-random patterns in vocal production.

This study uses EEG to compare neural processing of rhythmic speech in children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD), finding differences in phase entrainment, power, and coupling across frequency bands.

This study examines microstructural properties of cerebellar peduncles in children with developmental language disorder using diffusion-weighted imaging and finds reduced fractional anisotropy in the inferior cerebellar peduncles.

This study identifies genetic links between early vocabulary development and ADHD and cognition traits using genome-wide analyses.

This study shows that newborns' brain activity shows increased long-range temporal correlations after speech stimulation, particularly for the language they heard prenatally.

This study compares cortical surface area and thickness between children with developmental language disorder and controls, finding reduced surface area in specific brain regions but no differences in thickness or asymmetry.

This study investigates long-term retention of visual sequence learning in 7-year-olds and adults over one year, finding similar transfer abilities but overall better performance in adults.

This study examines how early language exposure and socioeconomic status affect brain myelination in infants at 6 and 30 months of age using MRI.

The paper shows that 3-year-olds' syntax is linked to the posterior STS, while 4-year-olds' syntax is linked to BA44 maturation.

The paper uses quantitative MRI to find reduced myelin in specific brain regions of children with DLD compared to typically developing children.

This study shows that tracking transitional probabilities and segmenting auditory sequences are separate processes in adults and neonates, with prosodic cues aiding segmentation and learning increasing neural similarity across infants.

This study uses MEG to track neural speech processing in infants and links it to later language development, finding that nonnative speech processing predicts vocabulary growth.

The paper investigates how neonates process and retain an artificial language, finding a two-step learning strategy involving neural entrainment and memory of syllable sequences.

This study evaluates the sensitivity of EEG-based frequency-tagging as a measure of statistical learning in individuals, finding low individual-level sensitivity compared to behavioral measures.

The paper quantifies the frequency of human infant laughter and protophones in natural environments, finding laughter occurs less frequently than cries and protophones dominate vocalizations.

This study identifies 18 significant genetic loci associated with speech sound disorders through GWAS and finds polygenic risk scores linked to clinical severity.

This study shows that children's ability to learn non-adjacent dependencies in a foreign language gradually declines with age, as indicated by decreasing ERP effects.

This study shows that infant white matter organization predicts kindergarten language abilities, specifically phonological awareness and vocabulary knowledge.

This study examines how a family-based intervention affecting conversational turn-taking influences neuroplasticity and language development in young children.

This study examines the development of vocalization and gesture in infants, finding that vocalizations outpace gestures in frequency across early ages.

The paper examines canonical babbling in infants, finding higher ratios during periods of vocal turn taking and vocal play, suggesting both social and endogenous motivations influence vocal development.

The paper examines infant vocalizations, finding that most protophones are produced endogenously rather than directed at others, highlighting the infant's role in vocal learning.

The paper tests 7-year-olds' ability to recall non-adjacent dependencies in a non-native language after an overnight retention period using ERPs and behavioral tasks.

This study shows that 5-month-old infants can form abstract symbolic representations and map them to arbitrary labels, suggesting symbolic thinking begins before language.

This study investigates how bilingualism and orthotactic language similarity affect word learning in children and adults, finding differences in how bilinguals process legal and illegal word patterns.

The paper examines how brain network properties at birth predict language skills and shows that syntactic abilities are affected by preterm birth.

This study analyzes linguistic isolates to show that early syntactic language exposure is critical for frontoposterior brain connections, as evidenced by their impaired performance in tasks requiring mental synthesis of objects.