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  • Why do toddlers learn words for objects before words for actions? [abstract] 

    Moore, Chesney C. (University of Missouri - Columbia Office of Undergraduate Research, 2006)
    A huge proportion of children's early vocabularies consists of nouns. Researchers call this the “noun bias” but they do not agree on why children learn a preponderance of nouns early in development. Children may be ...