{"product_id":"9783030355968","title":"Language and Concept Acquisition from Infancy Through Childhood Learning from Multiple Exemplars","description":"\u003ch1\u003eLanguage and Concept Acquisition from Infancy Through Childhood\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eLearning from Multiple Exemplars\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJane B. Childers\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePsychology \/ Developmental \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the role of experience-based learning on children’s acquisition of language and concepts. It reviews, compares, and contrasts accounts of how the opportunity to recognize and generalize patterns influences learning. The book offers the first systematic integration of three highly influential research traditions in the domains of language and concept acquisition: Statistical Learning, Structural Alignment, and the Bayesian learning perspective. Chapters examine the parameters that constrain learning, address conditions that optimize learning, and offer explanations for cases in which implicit exemplar-based learning fails to occur. By exploring both the benefits and challenges children face as they learn from multiple examples, the book offers insight on how to better able to understand children’s early unsupervised learning about language and concepts. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTopics featured in this book include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCompeting models of statistical learning and how learning might be constrained by infants’ developing cognitive abilities.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow experience with multiple exemplars helps infants understand space and other relations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe emergence of category-based inductive reasoning during infancy and early childhood.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow children learn individual verbs and the verb system over time.  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow statistical learning leads to aggregation and abstraction in word learning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMechanisms for evaluating others’ reliability as sources of knowledge when learning new words.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Search for Invariance (SI) hypothesis and its role in facilitating causal learning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLanguage and Concept Acquisition from Infancy Through Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential resource for researchers, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in infancy and early child development, applied linguistics, language education, child, school, and developmental psychology and related mental health and education services.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Jane B. Childers\u003c\/b\u003e (Ph.D. 1998, University of Texas at Austin), is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology, and Director of the Linguistics Program, at Trinity University, San Antonio.  Her main focus of research examines children’s early verb learning, with an emphasis on how the comparison of events may be useful for deducing verb meaning.  Her research has been funded by the Spencer Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and she serves on the Editorial Board of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Cognition and Development\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Experimental Child Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e04 February 2021\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer International Publishing\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783030355968\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e259\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62335793365132,"sku":"9783030355968","price":179.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030355968.tif?v=1791395711","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783030355968","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}