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Title Current perspectives on child language acquisition : how children use their environment to learn / edited by Caroline F. Rowland, Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge, Katherine E. Twomey.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 330 pages)
Series Trends in language acquisition research volume 27
Trends in language acquisition research ; volume 27.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Learning how to communicate in infancy / Danielle Matthews -- Heads, shoulders, knees and toes : what developmental robotics can tell us about language acquisition / Katherine E. Twomey and Angelo Cangelosi -- Insights from studying statistical learning / Rebecca L.A. Frost and Padraic Monaghan -- From grammatical categories to processes of categorization : the acquisition of morphosyntax from a usage-based perspective / Heike Behrens -- The retreat from transitive-causative overgeneralization errors : a diary study / Ben Ambridge and Chloe Ambridge -- Where form meets meaning in the acquisition of grammatical constructions / Anna L. Theakston -- Social cognitive and later language acquisition / Silke Brandt -- The emergence of gesture during prelinguistic interaction / Thea Cameron-Faulkner -- Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications / Evan Kidd, Amy Bidgood, Seamus Donnelly, Samantha Durrant, Michelle S. Peter and Caroline F. Rowland -- Understanding the cross-linguistic pattern of verb-marking error in typically developing children and children with developmental language disorder : why the input matters / Julian M. Pine, Daniel Freudenthal and Fernand Gobet -- Sampling linguistic diversity to understand language development / Sabine Stoll -- Lessons from studying language development in bilingual children / Ludovica Serratrice -- Language disorders and autism : Implications for usage-based theories of language development / Kirsten Abbot-Smith.
Summary "In recent years there has been an increasing realisation that the full complexity of language acquisition demands theories that (a) explain how children integrate information from multiple sources in the environment, (b) build linguistic representations at a number of different levels, and (c) learn how to combine these representations in order to communicate effectively. These new findings have stimulated new theoretical perspectives that are more centered on explaining learning as a complex dynamic interaction between the child and her environment. This book is the first attempt to bring these new theoretical perspectives together in one place. It is a collection of essays written by a group of researchers who all take an approach centered on child-environment interaction, and all of whom have been influenced by the work of Elena Lieven, to whom this collection is dedicated"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Lieven, Elena V. M.
Children -- Language.
Language acquisition.
Sociolinguistics.
Language and languages -- Variation.
sociolinguistics.
Children -- Language
Language acquisition
Language and languages -- Variation
Sociolinguistics
Genre/Form Festschriften
Festschriften.
Added Author Rowland, Caroline, 1971- editor.
Theakston, Anna L., editor.
Ambridge, Ben, 1977- editor.
Twomey, Katherine (Katherine Elizabeth), editor.
Lieven, Elena V. M., honouree.
Other Form: Print version: Current perspectives on child language acquisition. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020] 9789027207074 (DLC) 2020015564
ISBN 9789027261007 (electronic book)
9027261008 (electronic book)
9789027207074 (hardcover)