Initial stages of infant language acquisition

Research in this area addresses a number of questions such as:
 * When are early words produced and understood
 * Are infants aware of the connections between words like 'cat' and 'dog'?
 * When do children know about the sounds that make up the words they know?
 * When do children use the order of words in a sentence in learning the meanings of new words?
 * How do infants form categories?
 * What information do children use to identify visual objects? Do they process objects in a different way when the object looked at is named?

Papers

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