• The salience of novel words in speech directed to young children [abstract] 

    Clark, Michelle; Goodman, Judith C. (Judith Claire), 1958- (University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2008)
    When children begin to learn vocabulary, they tend to learn more nouns than verbs (Goldfield, 1982; Nelson, 1973). Several explanations for this noun bias have been offered. One possibility is that the way nouns are used ...