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- Title
Good intentions and bad words.
- Authors
Keil, Frank C.
- Abstract
Comments on the claims of Paul Bloom in his book 'How Children Learn the Meaning of Words' that word meaning acquisitions do not require a dedicated word learning system. Absence of a Word Acquisition Device in word meaning acquisitions; Disagreement of Bloom's conclusions against a dedicated language acquisition system for syntax, morphology and aspects of semantics; Questions on why word meaning should be different from other aspects of language in the course of acquisition.
- Subjects
LANGUAGE acquisition; WORD (Linguistics); PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2001, Vol 24, Issue 6, p1110
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X0129013X