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- Title
Word extension: A key to early word learning and domain-specificity.
- Authors
Waxman, Sandra R.
- Abstract
Augments and challenges the approach on word learning presented in the book 'How Children Learn the Meaning of Words,' by Paul Bloom. Significance of word extension for the question concerning the origin and evolution of the expectations of infants; Significance of word extension for the question concerning domain-specificity in word-learning.
- Subjects
VOCABULARY; LEARNING; HOW Children Learn the Meanings of Words (Book); BLOOM, Paul
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2001, Vol 24, Issue 6, p1121
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X01410132