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How fast does a child learn a word?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2002
Abstract
This discussion argues that for many word meanings, the child has to assemble a new category, using relatively slow information-sifting processes. This does not cause high semantic errors, because children probably hold off using a word until much such sifting has occurred, rather than producing the new word as soon as they have any information on it.
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