
Exploring Early Speech and Language Development: Interview with Catherine Laing
Early Excellence Podcast
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The Importance of Using Iconic Words
Children produce these words a lot because they're easier for children to conceptualize so iconic or on iconic forms in general. Children can be more expressive with the way they speak by using iconic or on a matter pia words it is really interesting stuffReally interesting and then presumably then in in your research do you then focus in on that idea of why children might go for certain might learn certain words ahead of others? I'm not necessarily sold by the idea that the form and meaning a connectedness makes them easy i think actually actually I don't want to second guess your research but i guess that that's so you kind ofso there are words like like you say wolf or um you know other
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