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Toddlers can learn verbs even in non-social contexts

November 14, 2013 by

Language acquisition has traditionally been considered a social, interactive process, however new research reveals that toddlers are able to acquire the meanings of words even in “socially impoverished contexts” where social or visual information is absent.

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