Breaking the Language Barrier: An Emergentist Coalition Model of Word Learning
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How do children learn their first words? The field of language development has been polarized by responses to this question. Explanations range from accounts that emphasize the importance of cognitive heuristics in language acquisition, to those that highlight the role of dumb attentional mechanisms in word learning. This monograph offers an alternative to these accounts. A hybrid view of word-learning, called the emergentist coalition theory, combines cognitive constraints, social-pragmatic factors, and global attentional mechanisms to arrive at a balanced account of how children construct principles of word learning. In 12 experiments, with children ranging from 12 to 25 months of age, data are described that support the emergentist coalition theory.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0631221549
ISBN13:9780631221548
Release Date:October 2000
Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell
Length:150 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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