the Book "How Children Learn Words" George A. Miller and Patricia M. Gildea, in Scientific American (Sept. 1987), 415 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017.
By the age of 12, the average child learns 5,000 new words each year, or about 13 every day-yet no more than 200 words are taught in a school year. How do children manage to learn so many words on their own? Miller, a psychologist at Princeton, and Gildea, professor of psychology at Rutgers University, believe students learn many new...