In this paper, we explore the hypothesis that human vocabulary acquisition processes and
verbal short-term memory abilities utilize a common cognitive and neural system. We begin …

The question of what makes a concept coherent (what makes its members form a
comprehensible class) has received a variety of answers. In this article we review accounts …

How do children learn that the word" dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just
to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of …

In this landmark work on early conceptual and lexical development, Ellen Markman explores
the fascinating problem of how young children succeed at the task of inducing concepts …

For children to acquire vocabulary as rapidly as they do, they must be able to eliminate
many potential meanings of words. One way children may do this is to assume category …

Unlike many recent books on L2 vocabulary and processing, this volume does not set out to
offer a complex perspective of the L2 lexicon, but rather represents a sustained attempt to …

Nearly every recent account of children's word learning has addressed the claim that
children are biased to construct mutually exclusive extensions, that is, that they are disposed …

Many scientific theories and discoveries involve reasoning about extreme scales, removed
from human experience, such as time in geology and size in nanoscience. Thus …

Consistent with the direction the field of developmental psychology is heading—towards an
expanded vision that gives greater attention to individual differences and cultural variation …

The goal of this study was to gain a better understanding of the intuitive activity that
precedes the construction of quantity, in particular, to make inferences concerning …