Don't preverbal infants map words onto referents?
Bloom provides a detailed account of children's word learning and comprehension. Yet, this book falls short of explaining the developmental process of word learning. The studies reviewed do not explain how infants begin to map words onto objects or the environment's facilitative role. Researchers must describe how several factors interact and explain the relative importance of each during the development of word learning.
Gogate
Lakshmi J
LJ
Department of Psychiatry, SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY 11203 Lgogate@netmail.hscbklyn.edu.