A Debate on Lexical Acquisition
by
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, Lois Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2000
Language acquisition is a contentious field of research occupied by cognitive and developmental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and biologists. Perhaps the key component to understanding how language is mastered is explaining word acquisition. At twelve months, an infant learns new words slowly...