Infants' use of object category distinctions in word learning
How do infants initially determine whether a novel object word labels a specific individual (e.g. Madonna) or an instance of a category (e.g., a person)? The research in this dissertation tested the hypothesis that infants assume words for objects from some categories (e.g., people) label individual...
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University of British Columbia
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/33957 |