Grammar aids young children's vocabulary development
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MIT study shows that a grasp of grammar helps even very young children figure out when they must acquire new words.
The new insight stands in contrast to a prior explanation for how children build vocabulary: that they rely on the concept of "mutual exclusivity," meaning they treat each new word as corresponding to a new object or category.
The researchers' experiments manipulated focus in three experiments with a total of 106 children.
Children thought a new word meant the previously named object 71 percent of the time.
But when hearing the new word spoken with focus, they thought it must refer to a new object.
The researchers believe the full set of experiments sheds new light on the issue.
If the new hypothesis is correct, the researchers may have developed a more robust explanation about how children apply new words.
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