Evan Kidd|Seamus Donnelly
Individual Differences in First Language Acquisition
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|Australian National University|Australian Research Council|Australian National University|Australian Research Council
humans vary almost every dimension imaginable language exception article review past research focused individual differences ids first language acquisition first consider different theoretical traditions language acquisition treat ids argue focus ids important given potential reveal developmental dynamics architectural constraints linguistic system review ids research examined variation childrens linguistic input early speech perception vocabulary grammatical development case observe systematic meaningful variation variation one domain eg early auditory speech processing meaningful developmental consequences development higherorder domains eg vocabulary research suggests high degree integration across linguistic system development across multiple linguistic domains tightly coupled