Business-Standard.com: Toddlers Can Understand Words Just By Hearing Them

(11/17/13) Assistant Professor Sudha Arunachalam quoted.

Expert quote:

“The only information provided was linguistic. Our goal was to determine whether 2-year-olds, on hearing new verbs in informative sentences, could use their syntactic content alone to map the novel verbs to meaning, even though no social or visual information was available.”