"4965","Emerging Linguistic Functions in Early Infancy","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.","http://cogprints.org/4965/","Lacerda, Francisco and Klintfors, Eeva and Gustavsson, Lisa and Marklund, Ellen and Sundberg, Ulla","Berthouze, Luc and Kaplan, Frédéric and Kozima, Hideki and Yano, Hiroyuki and Konczak, Jürgen and Metta, Giorgio and Nadel, Jacqueline and Sandini, Giulio and Stojanov, Georgi and Balkenius, Christian","       <span class=\"person_name\">Lacerda, Francisco</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Klintfors, Eeva</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Gustavsson, Lisa</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Marklund, Ellen</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Sundberg, Ulla</span>     (2005)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/4965/\"><em>Emerging Linguistic Functions in Early Infancy.</em></a>       [Conference Paper]           ","","2005"