Moo-cow! Mummy! More! How do children learn so many words?

Bob McMurray

doi:10.1111/j.1740-9713.2007.00258.x

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Moo-cow! Mummy! More! How do children learn so many words?

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Moo-cow! Mummy! More! How do children learn so many words?

Bob McMurray

Significance (Oxford, England), Vol.4(4), pp.159-163

12/2007

DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2007.00258.x

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Abstract

Learning the words of your language is a huge challenge for children. In particular, it is a challenge of scale. At least 40,000 words have to be learnt. At 18 months a child's vocabulary starts to explode. How do they do it? Bob McMurray says it is all to down to statistics.

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Title: Subtitle: Moo-cow! Mummy! More! How do children learn so many words?
Creators: Bob McMurray - Teaches developmental and cognitive psychology at the University of Iowa
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Significance (Oxford, England), Vol.4(4), pp.159-163
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2007.00258.x
ISSN: 1740-9705
eISSN: 1740-9713
Language: English
Date published: 12/2007
Academic Unit: Linguistics; Communication Sciences and Disorders; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Otolaryngology; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984070717302771

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