In a touch-screen paradigm, we recorded 3- to 7-year-olds' (N = 108) accuracy and response times (RTs) to assess their comprehension of 2-clause sentences containing "before" and "after". Children were influenced by order: performance was most accurate when the presentation order of the 2 clauses matched the chronological order…

Do young children form "referential pacts"? If a person has referred to an object with a certain term (e.g., "the horse"), will children expect this person to use this term in the future but allow others to use a different expression (e.g., "the pony")? One hundred twenty-eight children between 3 and 5 years old…

In three experiments, 3-, 4-, and 5-year olds and adults identified words from a list presented by a single talker or multiple talkers. Subjects were less accurate identifying or slower repeating words spoken by multiple speakers than by a single speaker. Processing of multiple speakers' words became easier with age. Children matched their…