Consistency and Variability in Children’s Word Learning Across Languages
Why do children learn some words earlier than others? The order in which words are acquired can provide clues about the mechanisms of word learning. In a large-scale corpus analysis, we use parent-report data from over 32,000 children to estimate the acquisition trajectories of around 400 words in e...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The MIT Press
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Open Mind |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/opmi_a_00026 |