Before and after the vocabulary spurt: Two modes of word acquisition?

Developmental Science

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 136-142

  Nazzi, Thierry ^a,b,c   Bertoncini, Josiane ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037386524     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7687.00263     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Barrett, M. (1995). Early lexical development. In P. Fletcher & B. McWhinney (Eds.), The handbook of child language (pp. 211-241). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
2. Benedict, H. (1979). Early lexical development: comprehension and production. Journal of Child Language, 6, 183-200.
3. Carey, S. (1978). The child as a word learner. In M. Halle, J. Bresnan & G.A. Miller (Eds.), Linguistic theory and psychological reality (pp. 264-293). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
4. Clark, E.V. (1983). Meanings and concepts. In J.H. Flavell & E.M. Markman (Eds.), P.H. Mussen (Series Ed.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol. 3. Cognitive development (pp. 787-840). New York: Wiley.
5. Clark, E.V. (1993). The lexicon in acquisition. New York: Cambridge University Press.
6. Corrigan, R. (1978). Language development as related to stage 6 object permanence development. Journal of Child Language, 5, 173-189.
7. Fennell, C.T., Corcoran, K.M., & Werker, J.F. (2000). Vocabulary size and fine phonetic discrimination in early word learners. Poster presented at the 12th Biennal Meeting of the International Society for Infant Studies, Brighton, UK, 16-19 July.
8. Goldfield, B.A., & Reznick, J.S. (1990). Early lexical acquisition: rate, content, and the vocabulary spurt. Journal of Child Language, 17, 171-183.
9. Goldfield, B.A., & Reznick, J.S. (1996). Measuring the vocabulary spurt: a reply to Mervis & Bertrand. Journal of Child Language, 23, 241-246.
10. Golinkoff, R.M., Mervis, C.B., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (1994). Early object labels: the case for lexical principles. Journal of Child Development, 21, 125-155.
11. Gopnik, A., & Meltzoff, A.N. (1987). The development of categorization in the second year and its relation to other cognitive and linguistic developments. Child Development, 58, 1523-1531.
12. Gopnik, A., & Meltzoff, A.N. (1992). Categorization and naming: basic-level sorting in eighteen-month-olds and its relationship to language. Child Development, 63, 1091-1103.
13. Hallé, P.A., & de Boysson-Bardies, B. (1994). Emergence of an early receptive lexicon: infants' recognition of words. Infant Behavior and Development, 17, 119-129.
14. Hallé, P.A., & de Boysson-Bardies, B. (1996). The format of representation of recognized words in infant early receptive lexicon. Infant Behavior and Development, 19, 463-481.
15. Hollich, G.J., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R.M. (2000). Breaking the language barrier: an emergentist coalition model for the origins of word learning. Monograph of the Society for the Research in Child Development, Serial No. 262, Vol. 65, No. 3.
16. Huttenlocher, J. (1974). The origins of language comprehension. In R.L. Solo (Ed.), Theories in cognitive psychology (pp. 331-368). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
17. Ingram, D. (1989). First language acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
18. Jarrold, C., & Baddeley, A.D. (1997). Short-term memory for verbal and non-verbal visuo-spatial information in Down's syndrome. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 2, 101-122.
19. Jusczyk, P.W. (1997). The discovery of spoken language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
20. Jusczyk, P.W., & Aslin, R.N. (1995). Infants' detection of the sound patterns of words in fluent speech. Cognitive Psychology, 29, 1-23.
21. Karmiloff-Smith, A. (1998). Development itself is the key to understanding developmental disorders. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2, 389-398.
22. Karmiloff-Smith, A., Grant, J., Berthoud, I., Davies, M., Howlin, P., & Udwin, O. (1997). Language and Williams syndrome: how intact is 'intact'? Child Development, 68, 246-262.
23. Klein, B.P., & Mervis, C.B. (1999). Contrasting patterns of cognitive abilities of 9- and 10-year-olds with Williams syndrome or Down syndrome. Developmental Neuropsychology, 16, 177-196.
24. Lifter, K., & Bloom, L. (1989). Object knowledge and the emergence of language. Infant Behavior and Development, 12, 395-423.
25. Lock, A. (1980). The guided reinvention of language. London: Academic Press.
26. Mandler, J.M. (2000). Perceptual and conceptual processes in infancy. Journal of Cognition and Development, 1, 3-36.
27. McShane, J. (1979). The development of naming. Linguistics, 17, 879-905.
28. Mareschal, D. (2000). Object knowledge in infancy: current controversies and approaches. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 408-416.
29. Markman, E.M. (1989). Categorization and naming in children: Problems of induction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
30. Merriman, W.E., & Bowman, L. (1989). The mutual exclusivity bias in children's word learning. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 54, (3-4, Serial No. 220).
31. Mervis, C.B., & Bertrand, J. (1994). Acquisition of the novel name-nameless category (N3C) principle. Child Development, 65, 1646-1662.
32. Mervis, C.B., & Bertrand, J. (1995). Acquisition of the novel name-nameless category (N3C) principle by young children who have Down syndrome. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 100, 231-243.
33. Mervis, C.B., & Bertrand, J. (1997). Developmental relations between cognition and language: evidence from Williams syndrome. In L.B. Adamson & M.A. Romski (Eds.), Research on communication and language disorders: Contributions to theories of language development (pp. 75-106). New York: Brookes.
34. Mills, D.L., Coffey-Corina, S., & Neville, H.J. (1997). Language comprehension and cerebral specialization from 13 to 20 months. Developmental Neuropsychology, 13, 397-445.
35. Nazzi, T. (2001). Object categorization by typically developing infants and children with Williams syndrome. Paper presented at the Xth European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Uppsala, Sweden, 22-26 August.
36. Nazzi, T., & Gopnik, A. (2000). A shift in children's use of perceptual and causal cues to categorization. Developmental Science, 3, 389-396.
37. Nazzi, T., & Gopnik, A. (2001). Linguistic and cognitive abilities in infancy: when does language become a tool for categorization? Cognition, 80, B11-B20.
38. Nazzi, T., Jusczyk, P.W., & Bhagirath, K.M. (1999). Infants' segmentation of verbs from fluent speech. Poster presented at the Biennal Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18 April.
39. Nazzi, T., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2002). Early categorization abilities in young children with Williams syndrome. Neuroreport, 13, 1259-1262.
40. Nelson, K. (1973). Structure and strategy in learning to talk. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 38, (1-2 Serial No. 149).
41. Nelson, K., & Lucariello, J. (1985). The development of meaning in first words. In M. Barrett (Eds.), Children's one-word speech (pp. 59-83). New York: Wiley.
42. Oviatt, S.L. (1980). The emerging ability to comprehend language: an experimental approach. Child Development, 51, 97-106.
43. Paterson, S.J., Brown, J.H., Gsoedl, M.K., Johnson, M.H., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (1999). Cognitive modularity and genetic disorders. Science, 286, 2355-2358.
44. Plunkett, K. (1993). Lexical segmentation and vocabulary growth in early language acquisition. Journal of Child Language, 20, 43-60.
45. Quinn, P.C., & Eimas, P.D. (1997). A reexamination of the perceptual-to-conceptual shift in mental representations. Review of General Psychology, 1, 271-287.
46. Schafer, G., & Plunkett, K. (1998). Rapid word learning by fifteen-month-olds under tightly controlled conditions. Child Development, 69, 309-320.
47. Singer, N.G., Bellugi, U., Bates, E., Jones, W., & Rossen, M. (1997). Contrasting profiles of language development in children with Williams and Down syndromes. Developmental Neuropsychology, 13, 345-370.
48. Stager, C.L., & Werker, J.F. (1997). Infants listen for more phonetic detail in speech perception than in word-learning tasks. Nature, 388, 381-382.
49. Stevens, T., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (1997). Word learning in a special population: do individuals with Williams syndrome obey lexical constraints? Journal of Child Language, 24, 737-765.
50. Swingley, D., & Aslin, R.N. (2000). Spoken word recognition and lexical representation in very young children. Cognition, 76, 147-166.
51. Swingley, D., Pinto, J.P., & Fernald, A. (1999). Continuous processing in word recognition at 24 months. Cognition, 71, 73-108.
52. Tincoff, R., & Jusczyk, P.W. (1999). Some beginnings of word comprehension in 6-month-olds. Psychological Science, 10, 172-175.
53. Vicari, S., Brizzolara, D., Carlesimo, G.A., Pezzini, G., & Volterra, V. (1996). Memory abilities in children with Williams syndrome. Cortex, 32, 503-514.
54. Waxman, S.R., & Markow, D.B. (1995). Words as invitations to form categories: evidence from 12- to 13-month-old infants. Cognitive Psychology, 29, 257-302.
55. Werker, J.F., Cohen, L.B., Lloyd, V.L., Casacola, M., & Stager, C.L. (1998). Acquisition of word-object associations by 14-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 34, 1289-1309.
56. Woodward, A.L., Markman, E.M., & Fitzsimmons, C.M. (1994). Rapid word learning in 13- and 18-month-olds. Developmental Psychology, 30, 553-566.
57. Younger, B.A., & Cohen, L.B. (1986). Developmental change in infants' perception of correlations among attributes. Child Development, 57, 803-815.