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Peer reviewedAkhtar, Nameera; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined two-year-olds' word learning. In one study, adults modeled the new word for an object novel to the children; in another, the object was novel only for the adult. Subjects displayed significant learning of new words in both settings, suggesting that toddlers understand that novelty in a discourse setting is determined from the speaker's…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Oral Language
