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Moo-cow! Mummy! More! How do children learn so many words? |
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| Authors: | Bob McMurray |
| Institution: | Teaches developmental and cognitive psychology at the University of Iowa. |
| Abstract: | Learning the words of your language is a huge challenge for children. In particular, it is a challenge of scale. At least 40,000 words have to be learnt. At 18 months a child's vocabulary starts to explode. How do they do it? Bob McMurray says it is all to down to statistics. |
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