Infant Pathways to Language: Methods, Models, and Research Directions

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ISBN: 9780805860634 | 0805860630
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Copyright: 10/15/2008

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The behavioral and brain sciences are faced with important new challenges at the beginning of the new millennium. The enormous progress in cognitive neuroscience, and the importance of genetic factors and gene-environment interactions in shaping behavioral functions in early childhood have both underscored the primacy of early experience and development on brain development and function.

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Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Contributors	p. xv
Measuring Language in Infancy	p. 1
Recognizing Patterns	p. 13
What Statistical Learning Can and Can't Tell Us about Language Acquisition	p. 15
Acquiring Grammatical Patterns: Constraints on Learning	p. 31
Are Infants Constrained in Their Linguistic Generalizations? Some Theoretical and Methodological Observations	p. 49
How Different Is Disordered Language?	p. 65
From Patterns to Meaning	p. 83
Infant Speech Perception and Later Language Acquisition: Methodological Underpinnings	p. 85
How Infants Discover Distinct Word Types and Map Them to Distinct Meanings	p. 99
Early Learning Through Language	p. 119
Predictors of Language Emergence	p. 141
Early Attentional Predictors of Vocabulary in Childhood	p. 141
Social Cognition and Language: The Role of Gaze Following in Early Word Learning	p. 169
Using the Hands to Study How Children Learn Language	p. 195
Models and Methods to Study Infant Language	p. 211
Linking Infant Speech Perception to Language Acquisition: Phonetic Learning Predicts Language Growth	p. 213
Early Word Learning and Categorization: Methodological Issues and Recent Empirical Evidence	p. 245
Language Acquisition, Domain Specificity, and Descent with Modification	p. 267
Neuroimaging Tools for Language Study	p. 287
Pathways to Infant Language Research: Commentary and Future Directions	p. 297
Index	p. 305
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Infant Pathways to Language: Methods, Models, and Research Directions

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