Becoming a Word Learner

by Linda B. Smith, Nameera Akhtar, George Hollich, et al.

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Language acquisition is a contentious field of research occupied by cognitive and developmental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and biologists. Perhaps the key component to understanding how language is mastered is explaining word acquisition. At twelve months, an infant learns new words slowly and laboriously but at twenty months he or she acquires an average of ten new words per day. How can we explain this phenomenal change? A theory of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195130324

ISBN13:9780195130324

Release Date:November 2000

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:216 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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