Item Function and Word Learning in Toddlers: What's it Called? and What's it Dos?

The aim of this study was to examine how providing functional information affects three year olds’ word learning. Previous work has demonstrated that children use perceptual or functional information about an object to aid in word learning. That is, they tend to base word meaning on the shape of the...

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Main Author: Andrew, Erin
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2013
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1017
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2149&context=theses