This reference for researchers, practitioners, and educators includes a variety of cross-disciplinary research on the developmental processes and influences that contribute to word learning. With a blend of developmental psychology and artificial intelligence, the book provides an examination of language learning and related computational models. Specific topics include: a dynamic neural field model of word learning, learning words from experience, developmental language learning from human/humanoid robot social interaction, and development of word recognition across speakers and accents. Editors are Gogate (developmental psychologist and psychology, Florida Gulf Coast U.) and Hollich (psychological sciences, Purdue U.).
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