GAIL M GOTTFRIED
Biographic Data
| ID | 9285334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | GAIL M GOTTFRIED |
| GIVEN NAMES | GAIL M |
| FAMILY NAME | GOTTFRIED |
| SIGNATURE | GOTTFRIED G M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Occidental College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Why is a pomegranate an apple ? The role of shape, taxonomic relatedness, and prior lexical knowledge in children's overextensions of apple and dog
Children's overextensions (e.g. referring to a pomegranate as apple ) raise intriguing questions regarding early word meanings. Specifically, how do object shape, taxonomic relatedness, and prior lexical knowledge influence children's overextensions? The present study sheds new light on this issue by presenting items that disentangle the three factors of shape, taxonomic category, and prior lexical knowledge, and by using a novel comprehension ta…
Comprehending compounds
Previous studies of children's comprehension of compound nouns show that three-year-olds can identify the appropriate referent for a compound when shown picture arrays that include salient distractors. The four studies presented here investigate comprehension of one kind of compound, metaphoric compounds (i.e. noun–noun compounds in which one noun expresses similarity to another object, as in catfish ). Forty-four three-year-olds, 45 five-year-ol…
Using metaphors as modifiers
Although much research has investigated children's use of metaphoric language, methodological concerns raise questions about the conclusions, and it remains unclear whether preschoolers can produce metaphors. These studies employed a new methodology to test children's ability to produce metaphors incorporated into metaphoric compounds. In two studies, 59 children aged 2;8–4;3, 63 children aged 4;4–6;1, and 34 adults participated in elicited produ…
Essentialist beliefs in children
In their first few years of life, children are making sense of the world at two levels at once: at the fine-grained level of everyday object categories (deciding which things are trees and which are dogs and which are cookies), and at a broader level that some have called commonsense “theories.” Both are remarkable achievements. First, consider categorization. If children's vocabulary is any indication, by the age of 6 they have carved up the wor…
No prominent works on this page.
Essentialist beliefs in children
In their first few years of life, children are making sense of the world at two levels at once: at the fine-grained level of everyday object categories (deciding which things are trees and which are dogs and which are cookies), and at a broader level that some have called commonsense “theories.” Both are remarkable achievements. First, consider categorization. If children's vocabulary is any indication, by the age of 6 they have carved up the wor…
Comprehending compounds
Previous studies of children's comprehension of compound nouns show that three-year-olds can identify the appropriate referent for a compound when shown picture arrays that include salient distractors. The four studies presented here investigate comprehension of one kind of compound, metaphoric compounds (i.e. noun–noun compounds in which one noun expresses similarity to another object, as in catfish ). Forty-four three-year-olds, 45 five-year-ol…
Using metaphors as modifiers
Although much research has investigated children's use of metaphoric language, methodological concerns raise questions about the conclusions, and it remains unclear whether preschoolers can produce metaphors. These studies employed a new methodology to test children's ability to produce metaphors incorporated into metaphoric compounds. In two studies, 59 children aged 2;8–4;3, 63 children aged 4;4–6;1, and 34 adults participated in elicited produ…
Why is a pomegranate an apple ? The role of shape, taxonomic relatedness, and prior lexical knowledge in children's overextensions of apple and dog
Children's overextensions (e.g. referring to a pomegranate as apple ) raise intriguing questions regarding early word meanings. Specifically, how do object shape, taxonomic relatedness, and prior lexical knowledge influence children's overextensions? The present study sheds new light on this issue by presenting items that disentangle the three factors of shape, taxonomic category, and prior lexical knowledge, and by using a novel comprehension ta…
Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Comprehension (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Noun (2 works)