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Experience, variation and generalization : learning a first language /
Are all children exposed to the same linguistic input, and do they follow the same route in acquisition? The answer is no: The language that children hear differs even within a social class or cultural setting, as do the paths individual children take. The linguistic signal itself is also variable,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
Ã2011.
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| Colección: | Trends in language acquisition research ;
v. 7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Experience, Variation and Generalization; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I. Extracting regularities; Toward a theory of gradual morphosyntactic learning; Cues to form and function in the acquisition of german number and case inflection; Developing first contrasts in Spanish verb inflection: Usage and Interaction; PART II. Multiple cues in learning to communicate; A new look at redundancy in children's gesture and word combinations; Learning the Meaning of "Um"; PART III. Discovering units; From first words to segments.
- Analysis and Generalization Across Verbs and ConstructionsTwo- and three-year-olds' linguistic generalizations are prudent adaptations to the language they hear; Units of Learning in Language Acquisition; PART IV. Individual differences; Causes and consequences of variability in early language learning; Individual differences in measures of linguistic experience account for variability in the sentence processing skill of five-ye; Genetic variation and individual differences in language; PART V. Mechanisms for learning; Language as a process.
- Memory, sleep and generalization in language acquisitionBayesian modeling of sources of constraint in language acquisition; Index.