The nature and processes of preverbal learning : implications from nine-month-old infants' discrimination problem-solving
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The nature and processes of preverbal learning : implications from nine-month-old infants' discrimination problem-solving
（Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, serieal no. 241,
University of Chicago Press, 1994
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: pbk ISBN 9780226113272
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In a sequence of designed studies, the authors document infants' abilities to extract the relevant attribute from complex arrays of colour, shape and texture. The evidence indicates that the infant's discrimination is based on abstracting the dimensions of the array, rather than learning to respond to a particular example. Moreover, the process of learning takes the form of hypothesis-testing and hence implies some type of internal mediation.
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ISBN 9780226241456
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Drawing on parent's reports of more than 1800 children, this monograph describes both typical and exceptional courses of communicative development in children between the ages of eight and 30 months. The authors' large dataset offers unusually specific information on the developmentally variable course of individual lexical, gestural and grammatical skills. The wide variability found among children's acquisition of these skills presents a challenge to the concept of the "model child", and should be of interest to developmental psychologists, as well as linguists interested in language acquisition.
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