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Title Becoming a word learner : a debate on lexical acquisition / Roberta Michnick Golinkoff [and others]
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 208 pages) : illustrations
Series Counterpoints
Counterpoints (Oxford University Press)
Contents Word learning : icon, index, or symbol? / Roberta Michnick Golinkoff & Kathy Hirsh-Pasek -- Intentionality model of word learning : how to learn a word, any word / Lois Bloom -- Learning how to learn words : an associative crane / Linda B. Smith -- Constraining the problem space in early word learning / Amanda L. Woodward -- Social nature of words and word learning / Nameera Akhtar & Michael Tomasello -- Emergentist coalition model for word learning : mapping words to objects is a product of the interaction of multiple cues / Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, & George Hollich -- What can we take for granted in word learning? / Lois Bloom -- Avoiding associations when it's behaviorism you really hate / Linda B. Smith -- There is no silver bullet for word learning : why monolithic accounts miss the mark / Amanda L. Woodward -- Five questions for any theory of word learning / Michael Tomasello & Nameera Akhtar -- Whole is greater than the sum of the parts, or why the emergentist coalition model works / Kathy Hirsch-Pasek & Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
Summary True to the Counterpoints format, each contributor puts forth, in the strongest possible terms, his or her own theory of language acquisition. In the final commentary chapter, a lively exchange between competing colleagues develops the debate
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Language acquisition.
Vocabulary.
French language -- Vocabulary.
Language Development
Vocabulary
vocabulary.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Psycholinguistics.
French language -- Vocabulary
Language acquisition
Vocabulary
Wortschatz
Spracherwerb
Taalverwerving.
Woordenschat.
Taalontwikkeling.
Woorden.
Form Electronic book
Author Golinkoff, Roberta M.
ISBN 9780195351477
0195351479
9780195130317
0195130316
9786610833078
6610833079