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Publication details [#31301]

Hall, D. Geoffrey. 1993. Basic-level individuals. Cognition 48 (3) : 199–221.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | cognition | interpretation | learning | object

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0010-0277 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.journals.elsevier.com/cognition

Annotation

This study suggests that young children assume reference to a basic-level rather than to a situation-restricted kind when they hear a count noun applied to an unfamiliar object in an ostensive definition.