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Language Development

Language development is the progressive process through which individuals acquire communicative competence by systematically mastering phonological, semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic linguistic components across identifiable developmental stages.

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Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants

Jenny R. Saffran, Richard Ν. Aslin, Elissa L. Newport · Science · 1996 · 5.7K citations

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Constructing a language: a usage-based theory of language acquisition

Choice Reviews Online · 2003 · 4.5K citations

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A First Language: The Early Stages

Rod Gardner, Beatrice T. Gardner, Roger Brown · The American Journal of Psychology · 1974 · 4.2K citations

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The CHILDES project: tools for analyzing talk

Brian MacWhinney · Child Language Teaching and Therapy · 1992 · 3.4K citations

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CANALIZATION OF DEVELOPMENT AND THE INHERITANCE OF ACQUIRED CHARACTERS

C. H. Waddington · Nature · 1942 · 3.3K citations

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    Michael Tomasello

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    88 publications · 15.2K citations

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    Laura M. Justice

    The Ohio State University, United States

    77 publications · 7.3K citations

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    Laurence B. Leonard

    Purdue University West Lafayette, United States

    102 publications · 6.2K citations

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    Susan Goldin‐Meadow

    University of Chicago, United States

    62 publications · 8.9K citations

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    Catherine E. Snow

    Harvard University, United States

    59 publications · 10.9K citations

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  1. Google (United States)

    Mountain View, United States

    138 h-index

    2.7K publications

    208.1K citations

  2. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    87 h-index

    484 publications

    66.7K citations

  3. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    84 h-index

    489 publications

    43.3K citations

  4. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    82 h-index

    362 publications

    44.1K citations

  5. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    81 h-index

    482 publications

    38.3K citations

  6. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    76 h-index

    363 publications

    35.1K citations

  7. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    75 h-index

    363 publications

    42.9K citations

  8. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    74 h-index

    365 publications

    43.7K citations

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  1. Journal of Child Language

    807 publications · 69.7K citations

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  2. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research

    JSLHR · 764 publications · 61.5K citations

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  3. Child Development

    506 publications · 66K citations

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  4. Developmental Psychology

    291 publications · 35.1K citations

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  5. Cognition

    224 publications · 32K citations

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See also

Language Development

Developmental Stages

Acquisition Theories

Influencing Factors