During instruction periods, a child was shown only the unknown object and told what it was called. During inference periods, the child was shown a known object and an unknown one and told to point ...

Toddlers learn new words more easily when they figure out the words' meaning for themselves, research by a 22-year-old Johns Hopkins undergraduate suggests.

Meredith Brinster, an undergraduate student in the John Hopkins University and who did the study, says she has found that learning words by inference is more powerful for 3-year-olds than just ...