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| Cognitive Processes | 1 |
| Infants | 1 |
| Language Acquisition | 1 |
| Language Skills | 1 |
| Learning Processes | 1 |
| Learning Theories | 1 |
| Perception | 1 |
| Retention (Psychology) | 1 |
| Verbal Learning | 1 |
| Word Recognition | 1 |
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| Psychological Review | 1 |
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| Macnamara, John | 1 |
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Peer reviewedMacnamara, John – Psychological Review, 1972
Presents evidence to support theory that infants learn their language by first determining, independent of language, the meaning which a speaker intends to convey... and by then working out the relationship between the meaning and the expression they heard. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Skills
