https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15516709?af=R Table of Contents for Cognitive Science. List of articles from both the latest and EarlyView issues. en-US © Cognitive Science Society wileyonlinelibrary@wiley.com (Wiley Online Library) Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:48:27 +0000 Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:48:27 +0000 Atypon® Literatum™ https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html 10080 Wiley: Cognitive Science: Table of Contents Wiley Cognitive Science https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/journal-banners/15516709.jpg https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15516709?af=R https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.70230?af=R Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:49:56 -0700 2026-06-03T12:49:56-07:00 Wiley: Cognitive Science: Table of Contents Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0700 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0700 10.1111/cogs.70230 Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 6, June 2026. Issue Information Issue Information 10.1111/cogs.70230 Cognitive Science 10.1111/cogs.70230 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.70230?af=R Issue Information 50 6 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.70228?af=R Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:18:59 -0700 2026-06-02T09:18:59-07:00 Wiley: Cognitive Science: Table of Contents Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0700 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0700 10.1111/cogs.70228 Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 6, June 2026. Abstract Early language skill is predictive of many later life outcomes and is thus of great interest to developmental psychologists and clinicians. The MacArthur‐Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs), parent report instruments typically containing inventories of hundreds of children's vocabulary words, have proven to be valid and reliable instruments for measuring children's early language skill. The CDIs have been adapted to many dozens of languages, and cross‐linguistic comparisons show both consistency and variability in language acquisition trajectories. However, thousands of languages do not yet have CDIs, nor the early language corpora needed to create them, posing a significant barrier to increasing the diversity of languages that are studied. Here, we propose a method for selecting candidate words to include on new CDIs through analyzing psychometric properties of the translation‐equivalent concepts that are frequently included on existing CDIs. Leveraging 32 datasets from existing CDIs, we propose a list of 100 concepts that have low variability in their cross‐linguistic learning difficulty. This pool of common concepts—analogous to the Swadesh lists, which are basic vocabulary lists used in glottochronology for cross‐language comparison—can be used as a starting point for future CDI adaptations. We show that the proposed Swadesh‐CDI list generalizes well to data from 10 additional languages. <h2>Abstract</h2> <p>Early language skill is predictive of many later life outcomes and is thus of great interest to developmental psychologists and clinicians. The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs), parent report instruments typically containing inventories of hundreds of children's vocabulary words, have proven to be valid and reliable instruments for measuring children's early language skill. The CDIs have been adapted to many dozens of languages, and cross-linguistic comparisons show both consistency and variability in language acquisition trajectories. However, thousands of languages do not yet have CDIs, nor the early language corpora needed to create them, posing a significant barrier to increasing the diversity of languages that are studied. Here, we propose a method for selecting candidate words to include on new CDIs through analyzing psychometric properties of the translation-equivalent concepts that are frequently included on existing CDIs. Leveraging 32 datasets from existing CDIs, we propose a list of 100 concepts that have low variability in their cross-linguistic learning difficulty. This pool of common concepts—analogous to the Swadesh lists, which are basic vocabulary lists used in glottochronology for cross-language comparison—can be used as a starting point for future CDI adaptations. We show that the proposed Swadesh-CDI list generalizes well to data from 10 additional languages.</p> George Kachergis, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Virginia A. Marchman, Philip S. Dale, Michael C. Frank Regular Article Measuring Children's Early Vocabulary in Low‐Resource Languages Using a Swadesh‐Style Word List 10.1111/cogs.70228 Cognitive Science 10.1111/cogs.70228 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.70228?af=R Regular Article 50 6