Early word learning through communicative inference /

How do children learn their first words? Do they do it by gradually accumulating information about the co-occurrence of words and their referents over time, or are words learned via quick social inferences linking what speakers are looking at, pointing to, and talking about? Both of these conception...

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Main Author: Frank, Michael C., Ph. D
Corporate Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: c2010

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Call Number: THESIS Thesis BCS 2010 Ph.D.