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edited by John Colombo, Peggy McCardle, Lisa Freund

Psychology Press

c2009

xvii, 318 p. ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index , Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Measuring Language in Infancy -- Chapter 2. What Statistical Learning Can and Canʹt Tell Us about Language Acquisition -- Chapter 3. Acquiring Grammatical Patterns: Constraints on Learning -- Chapter 4. Are Infants Constrained in Their Linguistic Generalizations: Some Theoretical and Methodological Observations -- Chapter 5. How Different Is Disordered Language? -- Chapter 6. Infant Speech Perception and Later Language Acquisition: Methodological Underpinnings -- Chapter 7. How Infants Discover Distinct Word Types and Map Them to Distinct Meanings -- Chapter 8. Early Learning through Language -- Chapter 9. Early Attentional Predictors of Vocabulary in Childhood -- Chapter 10. Social Cognition and Language: The Role of Gaze Following in Early Word Learning -- Chapter 11. Using the Hands to Study How Children Learn Language -- Chapter 12. Linking Infant Speech Perception to Language Acquisition: Phonetic Learning Predicts Language Growth -- Chapter 13. Early Word Learning and Categorization: Methodological Issues and Recent Empirical Evidence -- Chapter 14. Language Acquisition, Domain Specificity, and Descent with Modification -- Chapter 15. Neuroimaging Tools for Language Study -- Chapter 16. Pathways to Infant Language Research: Commentary and Future Directions -- Index.

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