Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

4-25-2025

Keywords

accomplishment, associative learning, brief entry, child, child learners, childhood, children, cognitive abilities, entry, entry sketch, environment, exposure, formal instruction, functional perspectives, impressive learners, information processing, language learning, linguistic components, linguistics, mature phonology, mechanisms, morphology, perspectives, pragmatics, processing mechanics, semantics, sentences, syntax

Disciplines

Child Psychology | Developmental Psychology

Abstract

Children are impressive learners. For instance, after a few years of exposure, they can utter sentences that resemble mature phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. They do so without formal instruction, and they do so seemingly effortlessly. What are the mechanisms by which children can accomplish such a feat? In this entry, we sketch out different perspectives on learning, focusing on language learning as an example.

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