Parents can help toddlers' language skills by showing them a variety of examples of different actions, according to new research. Previous research has shown that verbs pose particular difficulties to ...

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Using modified clips from the program Sesame Beginnings, researchers studied children's ability -- with and without adult support -- to learn a new verb and apply that word to a new scene. The ...

An influential account claims that whereas children have a “coalition of cues” available during word learning, they initially weight perceptual cues more, only later attending to linguistic and social ...

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