Infant pathways to language [electronic resource] : methods, models, and research directions / edited by John Colombo, Peggy McCardle, Lisa Freund.

Cover
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Chapter 1. Measuring Language in Infancy
Chapter 2. What Statistical Learning Can and Can't 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.