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Peer reviewedHirschfeld, Lawrence A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1989
Reconsiders the predominant views on the acquisition of kinship terms. Topics discussed include: (1) kinship and the ontogenesis of logic; (2) kinship and semantic development; (3) the language learner as naive theorist; (4) development and domain specificity; and (5) an alternative approach to kinship. (RJC)
Descriptors: Kinship Terminology, Language Acquisition, Piagetian Theory, Semantics
