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Language and Concept Acquisition from Infancy Through Childhood - Learning from Multiple Exemplars (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Language and Concept Acquisition from Infancy Through Childhood - Learning from Multiple Exemplars (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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This book examines the role of experience-based learning on
children's acquisition of language and concepts. It reviews,
compares, and contrasts accounts of how the opportunity to
recognize and generalize patterns influences learning. The book
offers the first systematic integration of three highly influential
research traditions in the domains of language and concept
acquisition: Statistical Learning, Structural Alignment, and the
Bayesian learning perspective. Chapters examine the parameters that
constrain learning, address conditions that optimize learning, and
offer explanations for cases in which implicit exemplar-based
learning fails to occur. By exploring both the benefits and
challenges children face as they learn from multiple examples, the
book offers insight on how to better able to understand children's
early unsupervised learning about language and concepts. Topics
featured in this book include: Competing models of statistical
learning and how learning might be constrained by infants'
developing cognitive abilities. How experience with multiple
exemplars helps infants understand space and other relations. The
emergence of category-based inductive reasoning during infancy and
early childhood. How children learn individual verbs and the verb
system over time. How statistical learning leads to aggregation and
abstraction in word learning. Mechanisms for evaluating others'
reliability as sources of knowledge when learning new words. The
Search for Invariance (SI) hypothesis and its role in facilitating
causal learning. Language and Concept Acquisition from Infancy
Through Childhood is an essential resource for researchers,
clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in
infancy and early child development, applied linguistics, language
education, child, school, and developmental psychology and related
mental health and education services.
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