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Peer reviewedTomasello, Michael; Akhtar, Nameera – Cognitive Development, 1995
Attempts to determine whether children can use social-pragmatic cues to determine "what kind" of referent, object, or action an adult intends to indicate with a novel word. Doubts that children assume that a novel word refers to whatever nameless object is present. Suggests that lexical acquisition rests fundamentally on children's…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
