%A Francisco Lacerda
%A Eeva Klintfors
%A Lisa Gustavsson
%A Ellen Marklund
%A Ulla Sundberg
%T Emerging Linguistic Functions in Early Infancy
%X This paper presents results from experimental
studies on early language acquisition in infants and
attempts to interpret the experimental results within
the framework of the Ecological Theory of
Language Acquisition (ETLA) recently proposed
by (Lacerda et al., 2004a). From this perspective,
the infant?s first steps in the acquisition of the
ambient language are seen as a consequence of the
infant?s general capacity to represent sensory input
and the infant?s interaction with other actors in its
immediate ecological environment. On the basis of
available experimental evidence, it will be argued
that ETLA offers a productive alternative to
traditional descriptive views of the language
acquisition process by presenting an operative
model of how early linguistic function may emerge
through interaction.
%K ecological theory of language acquisition, infant word learning, infant directed speech, cross-modal synchrony, gaze tracking
%P 55-62
%E Luc Berthouze
%E Fr?d?ric Kaplan
%E Hideki Kozima
%E Hiroyuki Yano
%E J?rgen Konczak
%E Giorgio Metta
%E Jacqueline Nadel
%E Giulio Sandini
%E Georgi Stojanov
%E Christian Balkenius
%V 123
%D 2005
%I Lund University Cognitive Studies
%L cogprints4965

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