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Adult language features vision verbs frequently, followed by hearing, but rarely touch. In young children's language, we find vision verbs do appear first and more frequently, but touch appears before hearing, consistent with embodied accounts of meaning. doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13469
Vision Verbs Emerge First in English Acquisition but Touch, not Audition, Follows Seconddoi.org Words that describe sensory perception give insight into how language mediates human experience, and the acquisition of these words is one way to examine how we learn to categorize and communicate se....
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This is really interesting