A cross-linguistic study of early word meaning: universal ontology and linguistic influence

1997/02/01 by Mutsumi Imai, Dedre Gentner · 30 citations
Psychology · #Child and Animal Learning Development #Categorization, perception, and language #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

paper · doi:10.1016/s0010-0277(96)00784-6

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• Ontological categories guide young children's inductions of word meaning: Object terms and substance terms

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