LSA.118 | Lexical Development

Susan Carey
TR 10:10-11:50
location: 32-124
course web site: http://lsa.dlp.mit.edu/Class/118

From about 18 months on, children learn over 10 new words a day. The course will cover what is known about how infants isolate words from the speech stream, and the relations between pre-linguistic representations and lexical representations that make such efficient learning possible. One extended case study will be the child's mastery of representation of number in natural languages--the count/mass distinction, classifiers, and numerals.