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Clark, Eve V. – 1974
This paper studies aspects of the conceptual basis for language acquisition, with a focus on the perceptual-cognitive skills used to assign meanings to words. A first assumption is that the correspondence between adult and child perceptual features allows for early communication. Apparently, in the first year, naming is characterized by…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition