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Akhtar, Nameera; Jipson, Jennifer; Callanan, Maureen A. – Child Development, 2001
Three studies examined 2-year-olds' ability to learn novel words when overhearing these words used by others. Found that children ages 2.5 years were equally good at learning novel object labels and action verbs when they were overhearers as when they were directly addressed. For younger 2-year-olds, this was true for object labels, but results…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes

Rice, Mabel L.; Woodsmall, Linda – Child Development, 1988
Preschoolers were assigned to experimental and control groups to investigate whether they could learn novel words when viewing television and whether the learning was influenced by age or type of word. (PCB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aural Learning, Comprehension, Language Acquisition