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How fast does a child learn a word?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2002

Michael Maratsos
Michael Maratsos
Affiliation:
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 [email protected]
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Abstract

This discussion argues that for many word meanings, the child has to assemble a new category, using relatively slow information-sifting processes. This does not cause high semantic errors, because children probably hold off using a word until much such sifting has occurred, rather than producing the new word as soon as they have any information on it.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 6 , December 2001 , pp. 1111 - 1112
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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