Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword V Monika Molnar and Nuria Sebastian-Galles The Roots of Language Learning: Infant Language Acquisition 1 5 Fumitaka Homae, Hama Watanabe, and Gentaro Taga The Neural Substrates of Infant Speech Perception 6 26 Laurence White, Caroline Floccia, Jeremy Goslin, and Joseph Butler Utterance-Final Lengthening Is Predictive of Infants Discrimination of English Accents 27 44 Monika Molnar, Marie Lallier, and Manuel Carreiras The Amount of Language Exposure Determines Nonlinguistic Tone Grouping Biases in Infants From a Bilingual Environment 45 64 A'gnes M. Kova'cs Extracting Regularities From Noise: Do Infants Encode Patterns Based on Same and Different Relations? 65 85 Richard N. Aslin and Elissa L. Newport Distributional Language Learning: Mechanisms And Models of Category Formation 86 105 Jenny Saffran Sounds and Meanings Working Together: Word Learning as a Collaborative Effort 106 120 Marilyn May Vihman, Rory A. DePaolis, and Tamar Keren-Portnoy The Role of Production in Infant Word Learning 121 140 Barbara Hohle, Sabina Pauen, Volker Hesse, and Jurgen Weissenborn Discrimination of Rhythmic Pattern at 4 Months and Language Performance at 5 Years: A Longitudinal Analysis of Data From German-Learning Children 141 164 Amanda Seidl, Brian French, Yuanyuan Wang, and Alejandrina Cristia Toward Establishing Continuity in Linguistic Skills Within Early Infancy 165 183 Krista Byers-Heinlein Languages As Categories: Reframing the One Language or Two Question in Early Bilingual Development 184 201