Infant Word Comprehension-to-Production Index Applied to Investigation of Noun Learning Predominance Using Cross-lingual CDI database (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing theories suggest nouns should predominate verbs in children's word learning . |
| Approach: | They define a measure called the comprehension-to-production index to investigate whether nouns have predominance over verbs in children's word learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed measure indicates noun predominance in word learning by children . it could provide clues for engineering solutions for teaching words to computers . |
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