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Peer reviewedHeibeck, Tracy H.; Markman, Ellen M. – Child Development, 1987
Results from these two studies show that fast mapping--gaining information about a word from how it is used in a sentence, what words it is contrasted with, and other factors--can be used successfully by children two to four years old to form quick and rough hypotheses about the meaning of a word. (PCB)
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