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Causes of the noun bias in early vocabulary development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)Children typically learn many more nouns than verbs early in vocabulary development. The cause of this "noun-bias" is unclear. One possibility is that caregivers use more nouns and prompt for nouns more often. That is, the ...