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Vocabulary Go
Facts of Life
August 19-25, 2007 Issue |
Posted 8/14/07 at 10:53 AM
Most toddlers speak gibberish, uttering an easy new word
here and there, before exploding into little chatterboxes seemingly overnight.
Now researchers think they know why. It’s the “word spurt” effect, according to
an intriguing new study conducted at the University of Iowa and published in
the journal Science. Lead researcher Bob McMurray, a psychology professor, says
the sudden vocabulary growth owes to the child’s need to decipher many words at
once — some of them far more difficult than others. He says that, as long as
toddlers are exposed to more difficult words than easy ones, the word spurt is
“guaranteed.”
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