Early word learning / Edited by Gert Westermann and Nivedita Mani

Includes index

Before the word: acquiring a phoneme inventory -- The proto-lexicon: segmenting word-like units from the speech stream -- Intrinsic and extrinsic: cues to word learning -- Mapping words to object -- Building a lexical network -- Verbs: learning how speakers use words to refer to actions -- Listening to (and listening through) variability during word learning -- Individual differences in early word learning -- Early bilingual word learning -- ERP indices of word learning: what do they reflect and what to do they tell us about the neutral representations of early words? -- Computational models of word-learning

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