Young children are proficient word learners especially during this time of their development and this accomplishment is made less demanding by certain biases such as shape biases. Shape bias is a lexical principle of strategy that children utilize during language acquisition to rapidly learn new nouns. The bias is exhibited when a child extends the name of an object to new objects of the same shape rather than color, materials, and textures. I believe shape bias is important for children’s language development because children who learn shape bias increase their vocabulary, the dimension of shape takes precedence over the dimension of size and texture, and divide the world largely according to shape.
Learning the shape bias can result in an
Learning the shape bias can result in an