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 * 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. _______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-subscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-unsubscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu