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Author Westermann, Gert, author

Title Early Word Learning / Gert Westermann
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Current Issues in Developmental Psychology
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 Before the word: Acquiring a phoneme inventory -- 2 The proto-lexicon: Segmenting word-like units from the speech stream -- 3 Intrinsic and extrinsic cues to word learning -- 4 Mapping words to objects -- 5 Building a lexical network -- 6 Verbs: Learning how speakers use words to refer to actions -- 7 Listening to (and listening through) variability during word learning -- 8 Individual differences in early word learning
9 Early bilingual word learning10 ERP indices of word learning: What do they reflect and what do they tell us about the neural representations of early words? -- 11 Computational models of word learning
Summary "Early Word Learning explores the processes leading to a young child learning words and their meanings. Word learning is here understood as the outcome of overlapping and interacting processes, starting with an infant's learning of native speech sounds to segmenting proto-words from fluent speech, mapping individual words to meanings in the face of natural variability and uncertainty, and developing a structured mental lexicon. Experts in the field review the development of early lexical acquisition from empirical, computational and theoretical perspectives to examine the development of skilled word learning as the outcome of a process that begins even before birth and spans the first two years of life. Drawing on cutting-edge research in infant eye-tracking, neuroimaging techniques and computational modelling, this book surveys the field covering both established results and the most recent advances in word learning research. Featuring chapters from international experts whose research approaches the topic from these diverse perspectives using different methodologies, this book provides a comprehensive yet coherent and unified representation of early word learning. It will be invaluable for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in early language development as well as being of interest to researchers interested in lexical development."--Provided by publisher
Subject Children -- Language
Language awareness in children
Lexicology -- Psychological aspects
Psycholinguistics
Vocabulary -- Study and teaching (Early childhood)
Children -- Language.
Language awareness in children.
Lexicology -- Psychological aspects.
Psycholinguistics.
Form Electronic book
Author Mani, Nivedita
ISBN 9781315730974
1315730979