Word learning does not end at fast-mapping: Evolution of verb meanings through reorganization of an entire semantic domain

Cognition

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-61

  Saji, Noburo ^a   Imai, Mutsumi ^a   Saalbach, Henrik ^b   Zhang, Yuping ^c   Shu, Hua ^c   Okada, Hiroyuki ^d  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Lexical development; Reorganizaiton of word meaning; Word meaning representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; ASIAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 79952782705     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.09.007     Document Type: Article

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