“…Yet many studies find that children even as old as 18 months have difficulty in making the right inferences about the intended referents of novel words (e.g., Katz, Baker, & Macnamara, 1974;Hirsh-Pasek, Golinkoff, & Hollich, 1999;Moore, Angelopoulos, & Bennett, 1999;Pruden, Hirsh-Pasek, Golinkoff, & Hennon, 2006). There are studies showing that infants as young as 13 or 14 months (Woodward, Markman, & Fitzsimmons, 1994;Woodward & Hoyne, 1999;Schafer & Plunkett, 1998; but perhaps not younger, Werker, Cohen, Lloyd, Casasola, & Stager, 1998) can link a name to an object given repeated unambiguous pairings in a single session.…”