creators_name: Lacerda, Francisco
creators_name: Klintfors, Eeva
creators_name: Gustavsson, Lisa
creators_name: Marklund, Ellen
creators_name: Sundberg, Ulla
editors_name: Berthouze, Luc
editors_name: Kaplan, Frédéric
editors_name: Kozima, Hideki
editors_name: Yano, Hiroyuki
editors_name: Konczak, Jürgen
editors_name: Metta, Giorgio
editors_name: Nadel, Jacqueline
editors_name: Sandini, Giulio
editors_name: Stojanov, Georgi
editors_name: Balkenius, Christian
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2006-07-23
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:29
metadata_visibility: show
title: Emerging Linguistic Functions in Early Infancy
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-lang
subjects: dev-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: ecological theory of language acquisition, infant word learning, infant directed speech, cross-modal synchrony, gaze tracking
abstract: 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.
date: 2005
date_type: published
volume: 123
publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies
pagerange: 55-62
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Lacerda, Francisco and Klintfors, Eeva and Gustavsson, Lisa and Marklund, Ellen and Sundberg, Ulla  (2005) Emerging Linguistic Functions in Early Infancy.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/4965/1/lacerda.pdf