New research from Northwestern University shows 15-month-old infants can learn words for objects they've never seen. This ...

Two studies of the acquisition of word meaning are described. The first is an experimental study designed to test the acquisition of word meaning on the basis of word definitions, as could be expected ...

Two general types of accounts have been offered to explain the smartness of young children's word learning. One account postulates that children enter the word-learning task with specific knowledge ...