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Direct linkByers-Heinlein, Krista; Werker, Janet F. – Developmental Science, 2009
How infants learn new words is a fundamental puzzle in language acquisition. To guide their word learning, infants exploit systematic word-learning heuristics that allow them to link new words to likely referents. By 17 months, infants show a tendency to associate a novel noun with a novel object rather than a familiar one, a heuristic known as…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Heuristics, Infants, Monolingualism
