Why Nouns Are Learned before Verbs [electronic resource] : Linguistic Relativity Versus Natural Partitioning. Technical Report No. 257 / Dedre Gentner.

There is overwhelming evidence that children's first words are primarily nouns even across languages. These data are interpreted as evidence of a "Natural Partitions Theory," one that holds that the concepts referred to by nouns are conceptually more basic than those referred to by ve...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Gentner, Dedre
Corporate Authors:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1982.
Subjects:	Child Language. Comparative Analysis. Contrastive Linguistics. Language Acquisition. Language Patterns. Linguistic Theory. Nouns. Perceptual Development. Verbs.