New research overturns theory on how children learn their first words

Monday, May 23, 2011 - 15:31 in Psychology & Sociology

New research by a team of University of Pennsylvania psychologists is helping to overturn the dominant theory of how children learn their first words, suggesting that it occurs more in moments of insight than gradually through repeated exposure.

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