Word Learning

How do we learn new words? What guidelines do we follow for picking up new terms? In this week's episode, we take a look at vocabulary development: the difficulties in deciding what sounds go with what meanings, the assumptions we make to help us solve those challenges, and what kinds of morphemes get stored where. Hodor!

This is Topic #35!

This week's tag: Hodor!

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Sources:
The zav study: Katz, N., E. Baker and J. Macnamara (1974) What's in a Name? A Study of How Children Learn Common and Proper Names. Child Development, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Jun., 1974), 469-473.

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