TY  - GEN
T1  - Speech perception and language acquisition in the first year of life.[article].
A1  - Gervain, Judit
LA  - English
UL  - https://tuklas.up.edu.ph/Record/UP-8027390931312409692
AB  - During the first year of life , infants pass important milestones in language development. we review some of the experimental evidence concerning these milestones in the domains of speech perception, phonological development, word learning, morphosyntactic acquisition, and bilingualism,emphasizing their interactions. We discuss them in the context of their biological underpinnings, introducing the most recent advances not only in language development, but also in neighboring areas such as genetics and the comparative research on animal communication systems. We argue for na theory of language acquisition that integrates behavioral, cognitive, neural, and evolutionary considerations and proposes to unify previously opposing theoretical stances, such as statistical learning, rule-based nativist accounts, and perceptual learning theories.
KW  - Infancy.
KW  - Learning mechanisms.
KW  - Phonological  bootstrapping.
KW  - Evolution of language.
ER  -