Learning from Infants' First Verbs Commentary on Naigles, Hoff and Vear

Across the centuries, people have been fascinated with infants’ first words. This fascination is not a special characteristic of parents of young children, developmental psychologists or psycholinguistics. Instead, this fascination is widespread, and infants’ first words can serve as entry points to heated discussions of topics as far ranging as innate knowledge, the nature of intelligence, and the development of national character.