Becoming a Word Learner

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

Book Overview

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"