Language and Concept Acquisition from Infancy Through Childhood: Learning from Multiple Exemplars

by Jane B Childers (Editor)

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 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 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.

280 pages, Paperback

Published February 4, 2021

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[Suddhasattwa Das · Rating 4 out of 5]

অসাধারণ কিছু পরীক্ষা-নিরিক্ষার বর্ণনা আছে, প্রত্যেকটাই শিশুদের মনোজগত আর শেখবার ক্ষমতা বুঝে নিতে| প্রত্যেকটা পরিচ্ছদ এমন একটা পরীক্ষণ নিয়ে| পরীক্ষাগুলির উদ্দেশইয় ছিল কোনো একটা মূলনীতি যাঁচাই করে দেখা| মূলনীতিগুলির প্রত্যেকটাই খুব ভাষা-বিশেষ আর সমাজ-বিশেষের নিরপেক্ষ, আর তাদের বয়ানগুলি খুবই গণিত সুলভ| মূলনীতিগুলি পরখ করবার জন্য কি ভাবে পরীক্ষণ সাজাতে হবে, তার বর্ণনাগুলি খুবই যুক্তিসম্মত|