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EARLY WORD LEARNING Early Word Learning explores the processes leading to a young child learning words and their meanings. Word learning is here understood as the outcome of overlapping and interacting processes, starting with an infant’s learning of native speech sounds to segmenting proto-words from fluent speech, mapping individual words to meanings in the face of natural variability and uncertainty, and developing a structured mental lexicon. Experts in the field review the development of early lexical acquisition from empirical, computational and theoretical perspectives to examine the development of skilled word learning as the outcome of a process that begins even before birth and spans the first two years of life. Drawing on cutting- edge research in infant eye-tracking, neuroimaging techniques and computational modeling, this book surveys the field covering both established results and the most recent advances in word learning research. Featuring chapters from international experts whose research approaches the topic from these diverse perspectives using different methodologies, this book provides a comprehensive yet coherent and unified representation of early word learning. It will be invaluable for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in early language development as well as being of interest to researchers interested in lexical development. Gert Westermann is Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University. He is the Director of the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme in Interdisciplinary Research on Infant Development and currently holds a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship. Nivedita Mani is Professor of Psychology at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in Germany. In 2014 she won the Fritz-Behrens Stiftung’s Science Prize and became a Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2017. Current Issues in Developmental Psychology Series Editor: Margaret Harris Professor of Psychology, Oxford Brookes University, UK Current Issues in Developmental Psychology is a series of edited books that reflect the state-of-the-art areas of current and emerging interest in the psychological study of human development. Each volume is tightly focused on a particular topic and consists of seven to ten chapters contributed by international experts. The editors of individual volumes are leading figures in their areas and provide an introductory overview. Example topics include: developmental disorders, implicit knowledge, gender development, word learning and categorization. Published titles in the series Gender and Development Edited by Patrick Leman and Harriet Tenenbaum Trust and Skepticism Children’s Selective Learning from Testimony Edited by Elizabeth J. Robinson and Shiri Einav Current Issues in Developmental Disorders Edited by Chloë R. Marshall New Perspectives on Moral Development Edited by Charles C. Helwig Early Word Learning Edited by Gert Westermann and Nivedita Mani Understanding Motor Behaviour in Developmental Coordination Disorder Edited by Anna Barnett and Elisabeth Hill EARLY WORD LEARNING Edited by Gert Westermann and Nivedita Mani First published 2018 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2018 selection and editorial matter, Gert Westermann and Nivedita Mani; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Gert Westermann and Nivedita Mani to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Westermann, Gert, 1966- editor. | Mani, Nivedita, 1980- editor. Title: Early word learning / edited by Gert Westermann & Nivedita Mani. Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2017] Identifiers: LCCN 2017026347| ISBN 9781138843516 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138843523 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315730974 (ebk.) Subjects: LCSH: Vocabulary—Study and teaching (Early childhood) | Children—Language. | Lexicology—Psychological aspects | Language awareness in children. | Psycholinguistics. Classification: LCC PE1449 .E24 2017 | DDC 401/.93—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017026347 ISBN: 978-1-138-84351-6 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-138-84352-3 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-73097-4 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Keystroke, Neville Lodge, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton To our early word learners Karl Xunguang and Elise Yuanting (GW), and Mark Siddharth and Mayur Theodor (NM). CONTENTS List of contributors Preface 1 Before the word: Acquiring a phoneme inventory Titia Benders and Nicole Altvater-Mackensen 2 The proto-lexicon: Segmenting word-like units from the speech stream Caroline Junge 3 Intrinsic and extrinsic cues to word learning Padraic Monaghan, Marina Kalashnikova, and Karen Mattock 4 Mapping words to objects Jessica S. Horst 5 Building a lexical network Nivedita Mani and Arielle Borovsky 6 Verbs: Learning how speakers use words to refer to actions Jane B. Childers, Angeline Bottera, and Tyler Howard 7 Listening to (and listening through) variability during word learning
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