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Paperback How Children Learn the Meanings of Words Book

ISBN: 0262523299

ISBN13: 9780262523295

How Children Learn the Meanings of Words

(Part of the Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change Series)

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 issues in the study of mind.

According to Paul Bloom, children learn words through sophisticated cognitive...

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