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Becoming a word learner [electronic resource] : a debate on lexical acquisition / Roberta Michnick Golinkoff [and others].

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 208 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Golinkoff, Roberta M.
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Word Learning: Icon, Index, or Symbol? / Kathy Hirsh-Pasek / Roberta Michnick Golinkoff -- 2.The Intentionality Model of Word Learning: How to Learn a Word, Any Word / Lois Bloom -- 3.Learning How to Learn Words: An Associative Crane / Linda B. Smith -- 4.Constraining the Problem Space in Early Word Learning / Amanda L. Woodward -- 5.The Social Nature of Words and Word Learning / Nemeera Akhtar / Michael Tomasello -- 6.An Emergentist Coalition Model for Word Learning: Mapping Words to Objects Is a Product of the Interaction of Multiple Cues / Roberta Michnick Golinkoff / George Hollich / Kathy Hirsh-Pasek -- 7.Counterpoint Commentary -- "What Can We Take for Granted in Word Learning?" / Lois Bloom -- "Avoiding Associations When It's Behaviorism You Really Hate" / Linda B. Smith -- "There Is No Silver Bullet for Word Learning: Why Monolithic Accounts Miss the Mark" / Amanda L. Woodward -- "Five Questions for Any Theory of Word Learning" / Michael Tomasello / Nameera Akhtar -- "The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts, or Why the Emergentist Coalition Model Works" / Kathy Hirsch-Pasek / Roberta Michnick Golinkoff.
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True to the Counterpoints format, each contributor puts forth in the strongest possible terms, his or her own theory of language acquisition. In the final commentary chapter, a lively exchange between competing colleagues develops the debate.
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9780199893898 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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