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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Main Author: Leung, Dilys Hay Lok
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/33957