The challenge for students of cognitive development is to characterize how our young
accomplish the task of acquiring concepts they come to share with others and communicate …

Publisher Summary This chapter reexamines prototype theory and the evidences with which
it is associated. In general, the way in which prototype structure was demonstrated for a …

A general introduction to the area of theoretical linguistics known as cognitive linguistics, this
textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, including recent …

Research on ontology is becoming increasingly widespread in the computer science
community. While this term has been rather confined to the philosophical sphere in the past …

Oxford Cognitive Science Series General Editors: Martin Davies, Wilde Reader in Mental
Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK, James Higginbotham, Professor of General Linguistics …

This text presents state-of-the-art methods for developing concepts appropriate for nursing. It
offers a wide array of approaches to concept development, ranging from the classic to the …

The goal of this article is to make the case for a radical exemplar account of child language
acquisition, under which unwitnessed forms are produced and comprehended by on-the-fly …

Given the fundamental role that concepts play in theories of cognition, philosophers and
cognitive scientists have a common interest in concepts. Nonetheless, there is a great deal …

The two basic approaches to linguistics are the formalist and the functionalist approaches. In
this engaging monograph, Frederick J. Newmeyer, a formalist, argues that both approaches …

Most theories of concepts take concepts to be structured bodies of information used in
categorization and inference. This paper argues for a version of atomism, on which concepts …