Wonder Kids is a series of virtual talks on the fascinating world of child development, hosted each month through June 2021.
Led by the Directors of UBC’s Early Development Research Group – some of the world’s leading developmental psychologists – we invite you to join the conversation on language, learning and social development!
Speaker:
Dr. Geoffrey Hall, Professor & Head of the Department of Psychology
Topic:
How do babies learn words?
Description:
Children are amazing word learners. They produce their first words at around one year of age, and add several new words to their vocabulary each day during the preschool years. This talk will review recent research from the Language Development Centre, focusing on some surprising discoveries about infants’ knowledge of words before their first birthday. These results highlight the remarkable language-learning accomplishments of babies as young as six months of age and challenge our current understanding of the origins of word learning in infancy.