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Whitehurst, Grover J., Jurgen Kedesdy and Thomas G. White. 1982. A functional analysis of meaning. In Kuczaj, Stan A. II, ed. Language development. L. Erlbaum. pp. 397–427.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

informativeness in child language | lexical meaning, L1-acquisition of

Annotation

Report of results of several experiments isolating variables functioning in children's word learning. Contiguity, informativeness and referent value are shown to be important variables.