A new born baby learn

new words inductively

Vertical development

is the reason of overgeneralization . 

Children not only acquire the words from adults’ speech but also they

learn the same meaning.

Children’s vocabulary reflects the frequency of words used by the

adults.

The number of active

vocabulary is likely to be higher than the passive vocabulary. 

A child first includes a word in its mental dictionary and gradually

learns the semantic features. This phenomenon is known as

By the age of seven, a kid knows

Referring to all the men as “daddy” is an example of

Which type of words do the kids learn first?

A child at the age of

five has at least …………. active vocabulary.