Perception, production, and individual differences

In sum, recent findings suggest that there may be a closer connection between perception and production abilities than often thought, with individual differences emerging in both. This can be illuminated by collecting multiple language/gesture/ cognitive measures on the same children, shedding light on the nature of individual differences (cf. Cristia, Seidl, Junge, Soderstrom, & Hagoort, 2014). Such approaches are becoming more common in many other fields of psycholinguistic research (e.g., Montrul & Tanner, 2017), and will hopefully become more common in infant/toddler research in years to come.