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Babies, dogs, and the riddles of word learning

Many Minds by Kensy Cooperrider

May 22, 202601:18:40Science & Medicine

It's kind of astonishing, really, that kids ever learn words. Each one poses a little riddle. Does this sound string refer to a person? A category of things? Or maybe some other feature of the blooming, buzzing world? An...

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Babies, dogs, and the riddles of word learning is an episode from Many Minds by Kensy Cooperrider. It's kind of astonishing, really, that kids ever learn words. Each one poses a little riddle. Does this sound string refer to a person? A cat...

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