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Publication details [#31283]

Xu, Fei. 2002. The role of language in acquiring object kind concepts in infancy. Cognition 85 (3) : 223–250.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

baby talk | conceptualization | language and thought

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0010-0277 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.journals.elsevier.com/cognition

Annotation

This article suggests that language may be important in infant acquisition of object kind concepts, as words may serve as "essence placeholders", and discusses implications for the relationship between language and conceptual development.