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