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Casey, Kennedy; Potter, Christine E.; Lew-Williams, Casey; Wojcik, Erica H. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Why do infants learn some words earlier than others? Many theories of early word learning focus on explaining how infants map labels onto concrete objects. However, words that are more abstract than object nouns, such as "uh-oh," "hi," "more," "up," and "all-gone," are typically among the first to…
Descriptors: Nouns, Infants, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development