Слово.ру: Балтийский акцент
How can the ability of six-month-old infants to learn words, meanings, and referential categories be explained?
... + concept” from a very early age. This clearly contradicts the generally accepted paradigm. To explain how early words appear in infants, this article introduces a hypothesis, which states the innateness of the dual structure of the referential word in infants: “the sound template of the name + the conceptual template of the meaning”, in which the name and the meaning are initially connected. As infants accrue speech experience, this structure is transformed into a referential word in ...
