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Concept-Based Word Learning Analysis

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In the article Concept-Based Word Learning in Human Infants there is an idea that babies learn their language through listening to what there mother has to say as oppose to learning from other people. There were infants that were taught to say the word chaser in order to see if infants can learn through movement.
This article reminds me of the language acquisition that we learned in class and how children have a critical period in their life where they have to learn language. Children seem to have a gene where they can easily acquire language and learn what different meanings mean to different words. Children can prime certain words to a shape or an object such as if the moon is round anything that is round a child will call the moon. Or …show more content…

The only time the infant had direct brain activity was when there was direct contact towards the child as well as a direct gaze. Infants did better when there was actual gaze in front of them. Most of the infants in the study only responded when a person was in front of them.
Children were presented with new agents and within the new agents there was an idea if children could learn a new word such as the word chaser and with the meaning of the word chaser. There were two types of training words. Children grow up learning to hear what it is that there mother or people around them are saying.
The language acquisition in childhood development is interesting because this is how we as humans learn to communicate with each other. While doing research to see how it is we are able to communicate with each other. Children are able to learn languages very quickly especially since young kids learn languages right away. Kids learn the differences between concepts and objects because that is what their language allows them to use their concepts and how much they will utilize their

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