Early Word-Learning and Conceptual Development: Everything Had a Name, and Each Name Gave Birth to a New Thought

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development, Second edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 180-208

  Waxman, Sandra R ^a   Leddon, Erin M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Early word learning and conceptual development everything having a name, each name giving birth to a new thought; Early word learning infants' entrance into truly symbolic systems establishing reference; Effect of novel words versus tone sequences on infants' categorization behavior; Evolution of infants' word to world expectations; Infants on threshold of word learning changing expectations of word to world mappings; Links between early language and conceptual development through lens of early word learning; Neuropsychological evidence, converging with behavioral evidence on word learning; Prelinguistic infants cognitive consequences of naming; Word learning, at the very intersection of language and cognition

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DOI: 10.1002/9781444325485.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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