Publications

Publication details [#1663]

Bowerman, Melissa. 1978. The acquisition of word meaning: An investigation into some current conflicts. In Waterson, Natalie and Catherine E. Snow, eds. The development of communication. J. Wiley. pp. 263–287.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

early childhood | lexical meaning, L1-acquisition of | reference, L1-acquisition of

Annotation

What kinds of cues do children use as a basis for extending words to novel referents early in development? Do all the referents for which a child uses a particular word share one or more features or are words typically used 'complexively', such that no one feature is common to all referents? How do children organize and store word meanings?

Reprints

Johnson-Laird, Philip N. and P.C. Wason. 1977. In Johnson-Laird, Philip N. and P.C. Wason, eds. Thinking: Readings in cognitive science. Cambridge University Press. pp. 239–253.