… How do individuals differ in what they know about word meanings … Identifying factors that can
convey word meanings to students in a way that will promote comprehension is … Drum and Konopak
caution, however, that exposure to words in context may not be sufficient for building …

… William E. Merriman, john Marazita, and Lorna jaruis Lexical Principles Can Be Extended to … Parillo
The Dual Category Problem in the Acquisition of Action Words Katherine Nelson … Brooks
Hedgehogs, Foxes, and the Acquisition of Verb Meaning Michael Maratsos and Gedeon …

… hard sounds for C /k/, and G /g/, all letters whose names do not contain … Also embedded mnemonics
can be devised to teach letter-sound correspondences to students learning a … Children were given
several practice trials to learn the pronunciations and meanings of the words …

… There are no shortcuts to an under- standing of words, meanings, and messages … For every
compound, we can thus raise both syntactic and semantic questions. The former have, in the
example, had to do with the legitimacy of a given combination, the latter with the signification …

… in their environment, and they avail themselves of quite sophisticated learning mechanisms to
do so … vowels (section 2.2.3). After 2 minutes of exposure, 8-month-old infants can compute statisti …
syllables (section 3.1.2.3), an ability that may be useful for extracting words from the …

… they are names for objects, actions or properties? How do they learn the meanings
of words? We will argue below that sound symbolism can help children overcome
these challenges. When a child hears a word in an …

… Over time, these patterns are overgeneralized to the production of words that do not automatically
match … Conventional words are forms for which we can assume (or have evidence to show) that …
These were almost exclusively animals and vehicles but also words such as a clock …

… L2 activities Classification of activities involving language use Fifty most frequent words in written …
These questions can be used as topics for student essays, class debates, or mini … website), as
well as additional suggestions for graded assignments and projects students might do …

… Indeed, developmental studies do exist that have addressed exactly this question … principle (Odic,
Le Corre, & Halberda, 2015), while at the same time they can map symbolic … first step toward an
understanding of how symbols (in this case number words) represent numerosity …

… that single words receive greater attention from adult readers than their particular recurring
combinations do … For example, the perceived novelty of an element in the input can render that
element … It is known from eye-tracking experiments, for instance, that words that are new to …