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Names for Things: A Study in Human Learning

By John Macnamara

Book information

Publisher
MIT Press
Year
1984
ISBN
0262630923, 9780262630924
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10734351 bytes)
Pages
288\296
Library
archive.org
Time added
2021-05-10 20:52:56

Description

The book is concerned with the child's acquisition of names (by which is meant words that refer to objects - including proper names, common nouns in some uses, and pronouns in some uses). Four chapters in the book's first section, Matters Mainly Psychological, describe empirical observations that explore how a child copes with the fact that many different name-like words can be applied to a single object. A second major section, Matters Mainly Linguistic, contains chapters on phonology, the learning of grammatical categories, the definite and indefinite articles, and the plural. A third section, Matters Mainly Philosophical, focuses entirely on the complex issues of reference and meaning. A final chapter reflects on the implications of the book for developmental psychology.An MIT Press/Bradford Book.

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