The pragmatics of word learning

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dc.audienceScience
dc.contributor.authorGrassmann, Susanne
dc.contributor.editorMatthews, Danielle
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-13T08:25:47Z
dc.date.available2017-01-13T08:25:47Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractChildren use and integrate a variety of information when learning novel words. Most strikingly, children are skillful in drawing inferences about speakers’ intentions. This chapter reviews the current state of affairs regarding the wide variety of pragmatic information that children employ in word learning. Current debates on whether seemingly pragmatic phenomena in word learning should be explained by simpler processes are addressed throughout the chapter. Suggestions for future research directions are made. Finally, I suggest that in order to acknowledge the role that pragmatic information plays in word learning, the field needs to come to an agreement on what it is that children acquire in word learning: word-object/concept-associations or means to communicate and direct other’s attention to certain objects?
dc.identifier.doi10.1075/tilar.10.09gra
dc.identifier.isbn978-90-272-3470-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11654/23823
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJohn Benjamins
dc.relation.ispartofPragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTiLAR Book series
dc.spatialAmsterdam
dc.subjectword learning
dc.subjectlanguage acquisition
dc.subjectpragmatics
dc.subjectdevelopmental psychology
dc.subject.ddc150 - Psychologiede
dc.subject.ddc400 - Sprache, Linguistikde
dc.titleThe pragmatics of word learning
dc.type04A - Beitrag Sammelband
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fhnw.affiliation.hochschulePädagogische Hochschulede_CH
fhnw.affiliation.institutInstitut Forschung und Entwicklungde_CH
fhnw.pagination139-160
fhnw.publicationStatePublished
fhnw.seriesNumber10
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