Some puzzling findings regarding the acquisition of verbs

On the whole, children acquire frequent words earlier than less frequent words. However, there are other factors at play, such as an early "noun bias" (relative to input frequency, toddlers learn nouns faster than verbs) and a "content-word bias" (content words are acquired dispr...

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Main Authors: Joshua Hartshorne, Lauren Skorb, Yujing Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Carnegie Mellon University Library Publishing Service 2023-03-01
Series:Language Development Research
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Online Access:https://lps.library.cmu.edu/LDR/article/id/535/