By 27 months of age, toddlers hearing a novel verb in transitive syntax are able to (1)
establish an initial representation for the verb based on its syntactic properties alone, even …

To learn a new word, children must isolate the linguistic form from the sentence in which it
occurs, identify its referent in the world, and establish a map** between the form and the …

Acquiring word meanings is generally described as a social process involving live
interaction with an interlocutor and/or joint attention to the word's referent (eg, Baldwin & …