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Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a first languageEdited by Inbal Arnon and Eve V. Clark
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 7] 2011
► pp. v–vi
Edited by Inbal Arnon and Eve V. Clark
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 7] 2011
► pp. v–vi
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction
Part I. Extracting regularities
Toward a theory of gradual morphosyntactic learning
Cues to form and function in the acquisition of German number and case inflection
Developing first contrasts in Spanish verb inflection: Usage and interaction
Part II. Multiple cues in learning to communicate
A new look at redundancy in children's gesture and word combinations
Learning the meaning of “um”: Toddlers' developing use of speech disfluencies as cues to speakers' referential intentions
Part III. Discovering units
From first words to segments: A case study in phonological development
Analysis and generalization across verbs and constructions: The development of transitives and complement-clause constructions in German
Two- and three-year-olds' linguistic generalizations are prudent adaptations to the language they hear
Units of learning in language acquisition
Part IV. Individual differences
Causes and consequences of variability in early language learning
Individual differences in measures of linguistic experience account for variability in the sentence processing skill of five-year-olds
Genetic variation and individual differences in language
Part V. Mechanisms for learning
Language as a process
Memory, sleep and generalization in language acquisition
Bayesian modeling of sources of constraint in language acquisition
Index
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