coordinating perceptually grounded categories through language: a case study for colour Page
1 1. Introduction This target article considers how a perceptually grounded categorical repertoire …

In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based
theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

Na primeira vez em que me propus a escrever este livro, tanto eu como os meus alunos sa
bíamos o que era necessário haver em um livro didático (ou pelo menos era assim que eu …

The central focus of this text is language development as a field of basic research, but
applied issues are also considered. Chapter 1 provides an overview and history of the field …

The contributions of social processes and computational processes to early lexical
development were evaluated. A re‐analysis and review of previous research cast doubt on …

A critical question about the nature of human learning is whether it is an all-or-none or a
gradual, accumulative process. Associative and statistical theories of word learning rely …

First word learning should be difficult because any pairing of a word and scene presents the
learner with an infinite number of possible referents. Accordingly, theorists of children's rapid …

There are an infinite number of possible word-to-word pairings in naturalistic learning
environments. Previous proposals to solve this mapping problem have focused on linguistic …

How do children learn their first words? The field of language development has been
polarized by responses to this question. Explanations range from constraints/principles …