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Soja, N.; And Others – 1985
Between their second and fifth years, young children learn approximately 15 new words a day. For every word the child hears, he or she must choose the correct referent out of an infinite set of candidates. An important problem for developmental psychologists is to understand the principles that limit the child's hypotheses about word meanings. A…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Research, Nouns, Semantics
