LINKING WORDS TO WORLD An embodiment perspective

Children begin to comprehend words at 9 months. They say their first word at around 12 months. The pace with which children add new words to receptive and productive voca-bulary then accelerates such that by 24 to 30 months, children add words at the staggering rate of 5 to 9 new words a day (Bloom, 2000). Just as in many other cognitive learning tasks, a critica