Discuss any three methods by which young children acquire the meaning of words
What will be an ideal response?
(1) Joint attention: Parents encourage word learning by watching what interests their children. (2) Constraints on word names: If an unfamiliar word is heard in the presence of objects that already have names and objects that don't, the word refers to one of the objects that doesn't have a name. (3) Sentence cues: The other words in a sentence and the overall sentence structure can be helpful clues to a word's meaning.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false