Kirsten Abbot-Smith

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kirsten Abbot-Smith plays a role.

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Abbot-Smith, Kirsten 2020 Language disorders and autism: Implications for usage-based theories of language developmentCurrent Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn, Rowland, Caroline F., Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey (eds.), pp. 287–321 | Chapter
Usage-based theories explain language development in terms of the specific characteristics of language input in combination with a child’s own inherent ability to engage in shared intentionality and statistical learning. In this chapter, I discuss these mechanisms in relation to evidence from… read more