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...... Words are not normally learned immediately when heard. Instead, the child needs acquires necessary exposure of the word over time in meaningful contexts. McGregor, Sheng and Ball provide the example of a child experiencing his birthday party. Mom says, Let me light the candle; a few seconds later, Dad says, Lets blow out the candle. Now the child has heard the lexical form two times at the same time as observing the candle at this point in time is minimal. Perhaps he will recognize the word or the object when he going to a friends birthday party which will strengthen the memory trace will Each time the boy observes more candles, he will learn to label them with characteristics such as hot, colors, sizes and wax material. It is an extended process until the word is actually known
Through this process the child is learning that words correspond to referents in their environment (Olswang et. al, 1983, p. 192). That is, a child's ability of first learning words relies in part on being able to recognize this relationship between what people are saying and the nonlinguistic context being observed. Normally in the language-learning process, parents encourage the child to

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