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Clark, Eve V. 1976. Universal categories: On the semantics of classifiers and children's early word meanings. In Juilland, Alphonse, ed. Linguistic studies offered to Joseph Greenberg on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. In collaboration with A.M. Devine and Laurence D. Stephens. Anma Libri. pp. 449–462.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

categorization | classifier | language universal | lexical meaning, L1-acquisition of | mental faculty

Annotation

C. examines the resemblance between the semantics of classifier systems and the child's emerging knowledge of word meanings, and she argues that the categories identified by classifiers and by children are a reflection of certain basic cognitive capacities.