Coordinating perceptually grounded categories through language: A case study for colour

L Steels, T Belpaeme - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2005 - cambridge.org
coordinating perceptually grounded categories through language: a case study for colour Page
1 1. Introduction This target article considers how a perceptually grounded categorical repertoire …

Linking language and cognition in infancy

DR Perszyk, SR Waxman - Annual review of psychology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Human language, a signature of our species, derives its power from its links to human
cognition. For centuries, scholars have been captivated by this link between language and …

Making a silk purse out of two sow's ears: young children's use of comparison in category learning.

LL Namy, D Gentner - Journal of experimental psychology: General, 2002 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Comparison mechanisms have been implicated in the development of abstract,
relational thought, including object categorization. D. Gentner and LL Namy (1999) found …

[图书][B] Quantitative development in infancy and early childhood

KS Mix, J Huttenlocher, SC Levine - 2002 - books.google.com
The aim of this book is to define and discuss the key issues raised by new findings in the
study of quantitative development. One basic question addressed is how the abilities …

Seeing pink elephants: Fourteen-month-olds' interpretations of novel nouns and adjectives

SR Waxman, AE Booth - Cognitive psychology, 2001 - Elsevier
Words from different grammatical categories (eg, nouns and adjectives) highlight different
aspects of the same objects (eg, object categories and object properties). Two experiments …

Object names and object functions serve as cues to categories for infants.

AE Booth, S Waxman - Developmental psychology, 2002 - psycnet.apa.org
Can object names and functions act as cues to categories for infants? In Study 1, 14-and 18-
month-old infants were shown novel category exemplars along with a function, a name, or …

Cross-linguistic transfer in adjective–noun strings by preschool bilingual children

E Nicoladis - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2006 - cambridge.org
One hypothesis holds that bilingual children's cross-linguistic transfer occurs in spontaneous
production when there is structural overlap between the two languages and ambiguity in at …

[PDF][PDF] Early world learning

SR Waxman, JL Lidz - Handbook of …, 2007 - childdevelopment.northwestern.edu
Specificity of the Initial Link 307 LATER STEPS INTO WORD LEARNING: MORE SPECIFIC
LINKS BETWEEN KINDS OF WORDS AND KINDS OF CONCEPTS 309 The Acquisition of …

The role of comparison in the extension of novel adjectives.

SR Waxman, RS Klibanoff - Developmental psychology, 2000 - psycnet.apa.org
Previous research has documented that basic-level object categories provide an initial
foundation for mapping adjectives to object properties. Children ranging from 21 months to 3 …

What you learn is what you see: using eye movements to study infant cross‐situational word learning

C Yu, LB Smith - Developmental science, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies show that both adults and young children possess powerful statistical
learning capabilities to solve the word‐to‐world mapping problem. However, the underlying …