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Clark, Eve V. – Cognition, 1997
Compares the many-perspectives account of lexical acquisition--which proposes that children learn to take alternative perspectives along with the words they acquire--to the one-perspective account--which proposes that children are at first able to use only one term to talk about an object or event. Provides evidence from a variety of sources that…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition