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Early word-learning entails reference, not merely associations
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Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of classic tensions concerning the fundamental nature of human knowledge and the processes underlying its acquisition. This tension, especially evident in research on the acquisition of words and concepts, arises when researchers pit one type of content against another (perceptual vs. conceptual) and one type of process against another (associative vs. theory-based). But these dichotomies are false; they rest upon insufficient consideration of the structure and diversity of the words and concepts that we naturally acquire. As infants and young children establish categories and acquire words to describe them, they take advantage of both perceptual and conceptual information, and relate this to both the (rudimentary) theories they hold and the statistics that they witness.
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- Waxman, S. R., & Gelman, S. A.
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-06
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 258-263
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2111080958
- Cited by
- 261
- References
- 57
- FWCI
- 5.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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