| Autor: |
Meylan SC; Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA., Bergelson E; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Annual review of linguistics [Annu Rev Linguist] 2022; Vol. 8, pp. 77-99. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Oct 05. |
| DOI: |
10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031220-011146 |
| Abstrakt: |
Children's linguistic knowledge and the learning mechanisms by which they acquire it grow substantially in infancy and toddlerhood, yet theories of word learning largely fail to incorporate these shifts. Moreover, researchers' often-siloed focus on either familiar word recognition or novel word learning limits the critical consideration of how these two relate. As a step toward a mechanistic theory of language acquisition, we present a framework of "learning through processing" and relate it to the prevailing methods used to assess children's early knowledge of words. Incorporating recent empirical work, we posit a specific, testable timeline of qualitative changes in the learning process in this interval. We conclude with several challenges and avenues for building a comprehensive theory of early word learning: better characterization of the input, reconciling results across approaches, and treating lexical knowledge in the nascent grammar with sufficient sophistication to ensure generalizability across languages and development. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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