| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 648 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"A Bradford Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Language acquisition.
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Language acquisition. |
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Lexicology.
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Lexicology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hall, D. Geoffrey.
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Waxman, Sandra R.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weaving a lexicon. Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : MIT Press, ©2004 026208323X 026258249X (DLC) 2003060055 (OCoLC)52750077 |
| ISBN |
9780262274777 (electronic book) |
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0262274779 (electronic book) |
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1417560533 (electronic book) |
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9781417560530 (electronic book) |
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