TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints4965
UR  - http://cogprints.org/4965/
A1  - Lacerda, Francisco
A1  - Klintfors, Eeva
A1  - Gustavsson, Lisa
A1  - Marklund, Ellen
A1  - Sundberg, Ulla
Y1  - 2005///
N2  - 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.
PB  - Lund University Cognitive Studies
KW  - ecological theory of language acquisition
KW  -  infant word learning
KW  -  infant directed speech
KW  -  cross-modal synchrony
KW  -  gaze tracking
TI  - Emerging Linguistic Functions in Early Infancy
SP  - 55
AV  - public
EP  - 62
ER  -

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