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Weaving a lexicon /

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Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Hall, D. Geoffrey, Waxman, Sandra R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : MIT Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Language acquisition.
Lexicology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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 ... [et al.]
  • 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.