Published by De Gruyter Mouton March 11, 2009

Learning your language, outside-in and inside-out

Stephen A. Hockema and Linda B. Smith

From the journal Linguistics

https://doi.org/10.1515/LING.2009.016

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Abstract

Children learn how to learn language, and they get better as they go along. This article presents an overview of research inspired by a dynamic systems view of language learning that shows it to be a self-organizing process in which children create the units they need from the regularities present in the environment in which they are situated.

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. E-mail: smith4@indiana.edu

Received: 2005-05-13

Revised: 2008-03-19

Published Online: 2009-03-11

Published in Print: 2009-March

Learning your language, outside-in and inside-out

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