Learning your language, outside-in and inside-out

Byline: Stephen A. Hockema; Linda B. Smith Abstract Children learn how to learn language, and they get better as they go along. This article presents an overview of research inspired by a dynamic systems view of language learning that shows it to be a self-organizing process in which children create the units they need from the regularities present in the environment in which they are situated. Article History: Date received: May 13, 2005 Date revision received: March 19, 2008