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1 online resource (xvii, 648 pages) : illustrations |
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Weaving an introduction / D. Geoffrey Hall and Sandra R. Waxman -- Learning to identify spoken words / Cynthia Fisher, Barbara A. Church, and Kyle E. Chambers -- The identification of words and their meanings : from perceptual biases to language-specific cues / Catharine H. Echols and C. Nathan Marti -- Listening to sounds versus listening to words : early steps in word learning / Janet F. Werker and Christopher Fennell -- Perceptual units and their mapping with language : how children can (or can't?) use perception to learn words / Barbara Landau -- Infants' use of action knowledge to get a grasp on words / Amanda L. Woodward -- Hybrid theories at the frontier of developmental psychology : the emergentist coalition model of word learning as a case in point / Kathy Hirsh-Pasek [and others] -- Myths of word learning / Paul Bloom -- Lexical development without a language model : are nouns, verbs, and adjectives essential to the lexicon? / Susan Goldin-Meadow -- Why it is hard to label our concepts / Jesse Snedeker and Lila R. Gleitman -- Everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought : links between early word learning and conceptual organization / Sandra R. Waxman -- Preschoolers' use and misuse of part-of-speech information in word learning : implications for lexical development / D. Geoffrey Hall and Tracy A. Lavin -- Acquiring and using a grammatical form class : lessons from the proper-count distinction / Ellen M. Markman and Vikram K. Jaswal -- The nature of word-learning biases and their roles for lexical development : from a crosslinguistic perspective / Mutsumi Imai and Etsuko Haryu -- Learning words for kinds : generic noun phrases in acquisition / Susan A. Gelman -- Contexts of early word learning / Nameera Akhtar -- Converging on word meaning / Megan M. Saylor, Dare A. Baldwin, and Mark A. Sabbagh -- The role of comparison in children's early word learning / Dedre Gentner and Laura L. Namy -- Keeping verb acquisition in motion : a comparison of English and Spanish / Jill M. Hohenstein, Letitia R. Naigles, and Ann R. Eisenberg -- Kidz in the 'hood : syntactic bootstrapping and the mental lexicon / Jeffrey Lidz, Henry Gleitman, and Lila R. Gleitman |
| Summary |
The studies in Weaving a Lexicon make a significant contribution to the growing field of lexical acquisition by considering the multidimensional way in which infants and children acquire the lexicon of their native language. They examine the many strands of knowledge and skill--including perceptual sensitivities, conceptual and semantic constraints, and communicative intent--that children must weave together in the process of word learning, and show the different mix of these factors used at different developmental points. In considering the many different factors at work, the contributors avoid both the "either-or" approach, which singles out one strand to explain word learning throughout childhood, and the "all-inclusive" approach, which considers the melange of factors together. Their goal is to discover precisely which strands of ability or understanding make which contributions to acquisition at which points in infancy and childhood. The nineteen chapters are arranged in two broadly thematic sections. The chapters in "Initial Acquisitions," focus on issues involved in word learning during infancy, including how learners represent the sound patterns of words, infants' use of action knowledge to understand the meaning of words, and the links between early word learning and conceptual organization. In "Later Acquisitions," the chapters treat topics concerning the stages of toddler and preschooler language acquisition, including part-of- speech information in word learning, the proper-count distinction, and a comparison of verb acquisition in English and Spanish. Because the contributors present their work in the broader context of the interconnection of different processes in lexical acquisition, the chapters in Weaving A Lexicon should suggest new directions for research in the field |
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COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General |
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COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology |
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"A Bradford Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Language acquisition.
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Lexicology.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Psycholinguistics.
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Language acquisition.
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Lexicology.
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Language acquisition
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Lexicology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hall, D. Geoffrey
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Waxman, Sandra R
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| ISBN |
9780262274777 |
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0262274779 |
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1417560533 |
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9781417560530 |
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