The next talk in the Cognitive Development Center at CEU seminar series will
be given by:
Sandra Waxman, Northwestern University
Date: Monday, January 17, 5 PM
Cognitive Development Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor
*EARLY WORD LEARNING: LINKING INFANTS' LINGUISTIC AND CONCEPTUAL ADVANCES
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Abstract: Word learning stands at the cross-road between linguistic and
conceptual organization. To learn the meaning of a word, infants must set
their sights in two distinct directions. Facing the conceptual domain, they
must form core concepts to capture the various relations among the objects
and events that they encounter. Facing the linguistic domain, they must cull
words and phrases from the melody of the human language in which they are
immersed. Decades of research have revealed that even before they begin to
speak, infants’ advances in each of these domains are powerfully linked. I
will review this evidence, focusing first on infants on the threshold of
word learning and then moving on present new evidence from infants as young
as 3- and 4-months of age.
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