Language development beyond the here-and-now: iconicity and displacement in child-directed communication
Most language use is displaced, referring to past, future, or hypothetical events, posing the challenge of how children learn what words refer to when the referent is not physically available. One possibility is that iconic cues that imagistically evoke properties of absent referents support learnin...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Society for Research in Child Development
2024
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