Sho Tsuji (International Research Center for Neurointelligence, Univ. of Tokyo) Theories and data on language acquisition suggest a range of cues are used, ranging from information on structure found in the linguistic signal itself, to information gleaned from the environmental context or through social interaction. We propose a blueprint for computational models of the early […]

Danielle Matthews (Department of psychology, The University of Sheffield) Around the end of the first year infants make the transition from prelinguistic communication (babble, gesture, eye contact) to word use. I will present a series of studies that have  1) measured individual differences that predict this transition  2)  tested experimentally if it is possible to […]