Colleen McDonough

TL;DR: One hypothesis about the difference between noun and verb acquisition is examined, suggesting the advantage nouns have is not a function of grammatical form class but rather related to a word's imageability.

TL;DR: Whereas early Chinese and English nouns do not differ in imageability, verbs receive higher imageability ratings in Chinese than in English, and imageability independently accounts for a portion of the variance in age of acquisition (AoA) of verb learning in Chinese andEnglish.

TL;DR: Attention to repeated utterances precedes word segmentation and sensitivity to statistical cues in continuous speech, and might play a role in the discovery of these and other aspects of linguistic structure.

TL;DR: There is a great deal of evidence that phonological awareness is a prerequisite for reading an alphabetic orthography (McCardle, Scarborough, & Catts, 2001; NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2005; as discussed by the authors ).

TL;DR: This article found that stereotypes about race continue to exist in the U.S. despite the fact that immigration and globalization have dramatically changed the ethnic landscape of the United States, and that foreign language classrooms are at the heart of the education system.