Language Acquisition by Susan Foster-Cohen (eds.)

By Susan Foster-Cohen (eds.)

This ebook offers a image of the sector of language acquisition at the start of the twenty first Century. It represents the multiplicity of methods that symbolize the sphere and offers a overview of present subject matters and debates, in addition to addressing many of the connections among sub-fields and attainable destiny instructions for research.

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E. 2 31 Later Words a. , 2005. The words listed for each child are taken from the first biweekly session with close to 25 words. b. ’ rosinad ‘raisins’ kiik (i) ‘swing’ adapt lind (i) ‘bird’ [nIN] [nanunu] rind ‘breast’ [n´n] [ma˘sini] king ‘shoe’ [pçnini] banaan ‘banana’ [ma˘nunu] karp ‘small box’ [nIN, nIn, nEN, nQN] [pam˘, bam˘, pap] [pap] [o˘sini] kits ‘goat’ [tits, tit»] trepp ‘step, stair’ [pap˘] [kik˘] Sources: Vihman, 1996 (Virve), 1981 (Raivo). e. of ‘adapting’ targets to child system) within first 50-word period.

The final paper, by McNaughton, Amituanai-Toloa and WolfgrammFoliaki, addresses the impact of cultural expectations on literacy practices in Tongan and Samoan communities, and connects back to notions addressed in the first section around cultural expectations for first words (Peters), how one talks to children (Saxton) and what one expects of bilingual children (Müller). , Tomasello, M. and Slobin, D. I. (2005). Beyond Nature–Nurture: Essays in honor of Elizabeth Bates. Mahwah, NJ; London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

That are also produced with sufficient frequency to be subject to such a ‘pruning’ effect of the perception/ production match. This seems to be the case. Phonetic categories such as coda consonants (consonants that end syllables), which are rare in infant babbling, show the impact of distributional learning at a later stage than phonetic categories that come under infant control earlier, such as the long consonants between vowels mentioned above (Vihman and Boysson-Bardies, 1994). In fact, ease of production and input frequency interact.

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