The interaction between cognitive and linguistic categorisation in early word learning

This thesis investigates the strategies infants use to generalise labels to different objects in the early stages of lexical development. It aims to directly test the assumption that a taxonomic bias exists which guides infants to extend words to categories of objects instead of individual instances...

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Main Author: Taxitari, Loukia
Other Authors: Plunkett, Kim
Published: University of Oxford 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504616