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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.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Psycholinguistics

• Full title: Early Word Learning
• Author: Gert Westermann, Nivedita Mani
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9781138843516
• ISBN: 9781138843516
• ID: 10919453
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 260 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. November 2017

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