Publications

Publication details [#2830]

Dromi, Esther. 1984. The word-context production strategy in the early acquisition of meaning. Proceedings of the International Congress for the Study of Child Language 2 (2) : 127–141.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

lexical meaning, L1-acquisition of | reference, L1-acquisition of | word, L1-acquisition of

Annotation

An empirical investigation, showing that words are applied by children as cover terms for whole situations, and are thus extended to objects, actions, and relations not sharing any identifiable semantic components, either with each other or with a prototypical referent.