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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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 |