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Direct linkNamy, Laura L. – Language Learning and Development, 2012
This paper evaluates the proposal that general associative mechanisms underlie the earliest stages of word learning but that these same general mechanisms, operating over language input, enable children to identify domain-specific cues that ultimately help to constrain word learning, rendering children more sophisticated language users. As a…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Vocabulary Development, Cues, Linguistic Input
