Concept Development and the Development of Word Meaning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Concept Development and the Development of Word Meaning write by T. B. Seiler. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Concept Development and the Development of Word Meaning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume owes its existance to many different sources and influ ences. It is based on a meeting that took place from April 30 to May 2, 1982 at the University of Technology in Darmstadt. The idea for that meeting came while we were elaborating a research program on concept development and the development of word meaning; we were inspired by Werner Deutsch of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (The Netherlands) and by the Volkswagen Foundation in Hannover (Federal Republic of Germany) to organize an international conference on the same topic. We set out to invite a long list of colleagues, and we only regret that not all of them were able to attend. This volume should not be viewed as the proceedings of that conference. On the one hand, it does not include all of the papers presented there, and on the other hand, some of our colleagues who were unable to attend were nevertheless willing to write contributions. Furthermore, some who did pre sent papers at the conference revised and reformulated them or even submitted completely new ones for this book. We feel, however, that in the end we have arranged a valuable collection of work in the theory and research of a field that has occupied not only psychologists and linguists, but also philosophers, anthropologists, and many others for a long time.
The Development of Word Meaning
The Development of Word Meaning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Development of Word Meaning write by Stan Kuczaj. This book was released on 2012-12-06. The Development of Word Meaning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For some time now, the study of cognitive development has been far and away the most active discipline within developmental psychology. Although there would be much disagreement as to the exact proportion of papers published in develop mental journals that could be considered cognitive, 50% seems like a conserva tive estimate. Hence, a series of scholarly books devoted to work in cognitive development is especially appropriate at this time. The Springer Series in Cognitive Development contains two basic types of books, namely, edited collections of original chapters by several autbors, and original volumes written by one author or a small group of authors. The flagship for the Springer Series is a serial publication of the "advances" types, carrying the sub title Progress in Cognitive Development Research. Each volume in the Progress sequence is strongly thematic, in that it is limited to some well-defmed domain of cognitive-developmental research (e. g. , logical and mathematical development, development of learning). All Progress volumes will be edited collections. Editors of such collections, upon consultation with the Series Editor, may elect to have their books published either as contributions to the Progress sequence or as sepa rate volumes. All books written by one author or a small group of authors are being published as separate volumes within the series. A fairly broad defmition of cognitive development is being used in the selec tion of books for this series.
The Origin of Concepts
The Origin of Concepts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origin of Concepts write by Susan Carey. This book was released on 2011. The Origin of Concepts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New in paperback-- A transformative book on the way we think about the nature of concepts and the relations between language and thought.
The Big Book of Concepts
The Big Book of Concepts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Big Book of Concepts write by Gregory Murphy. This book was released on 2004-01-30. The Big Book of Concepts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Concepts embody our knowledge of the kinds of things there are in the world. Tying our past experiences to our present interactions with the environment, they enable us to recognize and understand new objects and events. Concepts are also relevant to understanding domains such as social situations, personality types, and even artistic styles. Yet like other phenomenologically simple cognitive processes such as walking or understanding speech, concept formation and use are maddeningly complex. Research since the 1970s and the decline of the "classical view" of concepts have greatly illuminated the psychology of concepts. But persistent theoretical disputes have sometimes obscured this progress. The Big Book of Concepts goes beyond those disputes to reveal the advances that have been made, focusing on the major empirical discoveries. By reviewing and evaluating research on diverse topics such as category learning, word meaning, conceptual development in infants and children, and the basic level of categorization, the book develops a much broader range of criteria than is usual for evaluating theories of concepts.
The Acquisition of Word Meanings
The Acquisition of Word Meanings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Acquisition of Word Meanings write by Heinz Werner (linguiste)). This book was released on 1952. The Acquisition of Word Meanings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The child acquires the meaning of words principally in two ways. One is by explicit reference either verbal or objective; he learns to understand verbal symbols through the adult's direct naming of objects or through verbal definition. The second way is through implicit or contextual reference; the meaning of a word is grasped in the course of conversation, i.e., it is inferred from the cues of the verbal context. The present study endeavors to investigate experimentally the processes underlying the acquisition of word meaning through verbal contexts. For this purpose the "Word-Context Test" (WCT) was designed. This test employs artificial words embedded in sentences. The subject going from one context to another is expected to arrive finally at the meaning of the word. Each of these artificial words signifies either an object or an action varying in degrees of concreteness. There are twelve series of six sentences each. The sentences in each series are, in general, ordered in such a way that, as a child moves from one sentence to the next, the clues increase in definiteness. The subjects considered in this investigation were children between the ages of 8 yrs, 6 mo and 13 yrs, 5 mo. The interquartile I.Q. range was from 101 to 111. In all, 125 children (60 boys and 65 girls) were tested; there were 25 children in each age group. The monograph is divided into three parts. Section I deals with a detailed qualitative and quantitative analysis of the results. Section II reviews synoptically the results reported in Section I and attempts to evaluate these results in terms of general laws of development. The third section relates the findings of the present study to other empirical and experimental investigations"--(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved).
