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Book SynopsisThe contributions to this special issue were selected from a wealth of studies presented at the first Workshop on Infant Language Development held in Europe (Donostia, Spain) including keynote talks by such prominent infant researchers as Jenny Saffran, Marilyn Vihman, Krista Byers-Heinlin, and Dick Aslin. One of the many goals of this meeting was to bring together researchers who work on the acquisition of various languages. For this reason, research reported in this special issue includes experimental data from German, Japanese, Basque, Spanish, Italian, French, British, English, and American English infants. By investigating various abilities of infants from all these linguistic backgrounds, the articles published within this volume cover the research fields of speech perception development, cognitive development, and the development of word comprehension and production.
Table of ContentsForeword V
Monika Molnar and Nuria Sebastian-Galles
The Roots of Language Learning: Infant Language Acquisition 1–5
Fumitaka Homae, Hama Watanabe, and Gentaro Taga
The Neural Substrates of Infant Speech Perception 6–26
Laurence White, Caroline Floccia, Jeremy Goslin, and Joseph Butler
Utterance-Final Lengthening Is Predictive of Infants’ Discrimination of English Accents 27–44
Monika Molnar, Marie Lallier, and Manuel Carreiras
The Amount of Language Exposure Determines Nonlinguistic Tone Grouping Biases in Infants From a Bilingual Environment 45–64
A´gnes M. Kova´cs
Extracting Regularities From Noise: Do Infants Encode Patterns Based on Same and Different Relations? 65–85
Richard N. Aslin and Elissa L. Newport
Distributional Language Learning: Mechanisms And Models of Category Formation 86–105
Jenny Saffran
Sounds and Meanings Working Together: Word Learning as a Collaborative Effort 106–120
Marilyn May Vihman, Rory A. DePaolis, and Tamar Keren-Portnoy
The Role of Production in Infant Word Learning 121–140
Barbara Höhle, Sabina Pauen, Volker Hesse, and Jürgen Weissenborn
Discrimination of Rhythmic Pattern at 4 Months and Language Performance at 5 Years: A Longitudinal Analysis of Data From German-Learning Children 141–164
Amanda Seidl, Brian French, Yuanyuan Wang, and Alejandrina Cristia
Toward Establishing Continuity in Linguistic Skills Within Early Infancy 165–183
Krista Byers-Heinlein
Languages As Categories: Reframing the “One Language or Two” Question in Early Bilingual Development 184–201
