The social-pragmatic theory of word learning.

By Michael Tomasello. 2000

190 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Okko Johannes Räsänen
2. Herman Kamper
3. Emmanuel Dupoux
4. Sharon Goldwater
5. Aren Jansen

In Language and Linguistics

1. Okko Johannes Räsänen

Citations in the corpus

• Computational modeling of phonetic and lexical learning in early language acquisition: Existing models and future directions (2012, background): “The social-pragmatic theory of word learning states that a linguistic symbol itself is a tool to share attention between multiple persons and that learning children already know that the function of language is to direct the attention of others (Tomasello, 2000).”