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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 364, Issue 1536, Pages 3617-3632Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0107
Keywords
language acquisition; language development; word learning; speech perception; lexicon
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- NIH [R01 HD49681]
- NSF [HSD 0433567]
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Infants learn the forms of words by listening to the speech they hear. Though little is known about the degree to which these forms are meaningful for young infants, the words still play a role in early language development. Words guide the infant to his or her first syntactic intuitions, aid in the development of the lexicon, and, it is proposed, may help infants learn phonetic categories.
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