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Innateness, abstract names, and syntactic cues in How Children Learn the Meanings of Words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2002

Heidi Harley  and
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
Heidi Harley
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, Douglass 200E, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0028 hharley@u.arizona.edu http://w3.arizona.edu/~ling/hh
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
Affiliation:
Cognitive Science Program, Communication 305, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Massimo@u.arizona.edu
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Abstract

Bloom masterfully captures the state-of-the-art in the study of lexical acquisition. He also exposes the extent of our ignorance about the learning of names for non-observables. HCLMW adopts an innatist position without adopting modularity of mind; however, it seems likely that modularity is needed to bridge the gap between object names and the rest of the lexicon.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 6 , December 2001 , pp. 1107 - 1108
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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