Infant language learning

Karen Mattock

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_1830

Infant language learning

Karen Mattock

School of Psychology

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Infant language learning refers to how young children (0-2 years) acquire knowledge about what sounds are in their language, how they learn where words begin and end in fluent speech and that words map on to referents in their environment, and how vocabulary (expressive and receptive) and sensitivity to syntactic forms (word order/ sentence structure) is acquired. There are a number of accounts of infant language learning that differ in terms of their emphasis on endogenous mechanisms, environmental influences, or a combination.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning
Editors	Norbert M. Seel
Place of Publication	U.S.A.
Publisher	Springer
Pages	1542-1544
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781441914286
ISBN (Print)	9781441914279
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_1830
Publication status	Published - 2012

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infants
language acquisition

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