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How Children Learn the Meanings of Words (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)
How Children Learn the Meanings of Words - Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
Author: Paul Bloom
How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of verbs like "think," adjectives like "good," and words for abstract entities such as "mortgage" and "story"? The acquisition of word meaning is one of the fundamental...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780262523295
ISBN-10: 0262523299
Publication Date: 3/7/2002
Pages: 314
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Book Type: Paperback
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