Categorization and Naming in Children: Problems of Induction

by Ellen M. Markman

Book Overview

Very young children are surrounded by a huge array of objects, all unfamiliar; yet by the age of three, and despite their limited information processing abilities, children are remarkably capable of categorizing objects and learning object labels. In this landmark work on early conceptual and lexical development Ellen Markman challenges the fundamental assumptions of traditional theories of language acquisition and proposes a new notion of how children...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262132397
• ISBN13: 9780262132398
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.