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Fisher, Anna V.; Matlen, Bryan J.; Godwin, Karrie E. – Cognition, 2011
Prior research suggests that preschoolers can generalize object properties based on category information conveyed by semantically-similar labels. However, previous research did not control for co-occurrence probability of labels in natural speech. The current studies re-assessed children's generalization with semantically-similar labels.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Generalization, Probability, Inferences
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Breheny, Richard; Katsos, Napoleon; Williams, John – Cognition, 2006
Recent research in semantics and pragmatics has revived the debate about whether there are two cognitively distinct categories of conversational implicatures: generalised and particularised. Generalised conversational implicatures are so-called because they seem to arise more or less independently of contextual support. Particularised implicatures…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Inferences, Semantics, Pragmatics
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Bloom, Paul; Markson, Lori – Cognition, 2001
Notes young children's fast mapping ability for word and fact learning. Finds children's extension of a new word to novel objects from same category but lack of extension for new facts, as replicated by Waxman and Booth, unsurprising. Poses more interesting question: is word learning done solely through more general cognitive systems or through…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Mapping, Generalization, Learning Processes
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Gelman, Susan A.; Bloom, Paul – Cognition, 2000
Examined how 3- and 5-year-olds and adults extend names for human-made artifacts. Found that even 3-year-olds were more likely to provide artifact names (e.g., "knife") when they believed objects were intentionally created and to provide material-based descriptions (e.g., "plastic") when they believed objects were accidentally…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Generalization