Studying How Children Learn Words With No Meaning

ENN
Aug 17, 2023, 2:00 pm193 pts
Researchers at the MIT Language Acquisition Lab are using funds from the 2022 Levitan Prize in the Humanities to carry out a set of studies investigating children's acquisition of "expletives" or “dummy words” — words that don't seem to have any meaning.

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