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Fast-mapping children vs. slow-mapping adults: Assumptions about words and concepts in two literatures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2002

Gregory L. Murphy
Gregory L. Murphy
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, New York University, New York, NY 10003 Gregory.Murphy@NYU.edu
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Abstract

Research on children's and adults' concepts embodies very different assumptions of how concepts are structured, as reflected in their experimental designs. Developmental studies seem to assume that categories contain highly similar objects that can all be identified from one or two examples. If concepts are more like those tested in adult experiments, research on word learning may be misleading.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 6 , December 2001 , pp. 1112 - 1113
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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