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Direct linkMaguire, Mandy J.; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Brandone, Amanda C. – Developmental Science, 2008
One of the most prominent theories for why children struggle to learn verbs is that verb learning requires the abstraction of relations between an object and its action (Gentner, 2003). Two hypotheses suggest how children extract relations to extend a novel verb: (1) seeing "many different" exemplars allows children to detect the invariant…
Descriptors: Verbs, Child Development, Young Children, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
