Names for Things
A Study in Human Learning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11117675 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John M Carroll (0000-0001-9166-2218), John Macnamara (0000-0003-1387-3882) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 636 |
| Publication date | 1984-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/414003 |
| OpenAlex | W2015549246 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 58 |
| References cited | 2 |
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.John Macnamara is a world-recognized developmental psychologist and Professor of Psychology at McGill University. An MIT Press/Bradford Book
Cognitive science · Linguistics · Communication · Philosophy · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
Linguistic Form and Function
Countability in Mandarin Chinese
The acquisition of event nominals and light verb constructions
Folkbiology doesn't Come from Folkpsychology
Language Experience Shapes the Development of the Mutual Exclusivity Bias
Pronoun acquisition in a Mandarin— English bilingual child
The transition from nominal to pronominal person reference in the early language of a Mandarin-English bilingual child
Learning-dependent changes of associations between unfamiliar words and perceptual features
Argument realization in Hindi caregiver-child discourse
Gender stereotyping in young children
Linguistic cues in the acquisition of number words
Counting nouns and verbs in the input
Knowing more than one can say
Pointing and interaction initiation
Singular or plural? Children's knowledge of the factors that determine the appropriate form of count nouns
Count/mass category acquisition
Language, procedures, and the non-perceptual origin of number word meanings
Children's use of information in word learning
The contrastive hypothesis for the acquisition of word meaning
Infants' ability to consult the speaker for clues to word reference
Nouns and verbs in Chintang
Personal pronoun usage in maternal input to infants at high vs. low risk for autism spectrum disorder
The child's knowledge of English kin terms
From lexical to functional categories
Properhood
The discovery of a miniature linguistic system
Language and World View
From a Phono-Logical Point of View
Sélection sémantique et sélection naturelle
Cognitive components of picture naming
Language acquisition in optimality theory
Spatial Components in the Use of Count Nouns Among English Speakers and Japanese Speakers of English as a Second Language
Cognitive Psychology and the Rejection of Brentano
Early referential understanding
Multiple Labels for Objects in Conversations With Young Children
Children's use of mutual exclusivity to learn labels for parts of objects
Sixteen- and 24-month-olds' use of mutual exclusivity as a default assumption in second-label learning
Count nouns, adjectives, and perceptual properties in children's novel word interpretations
A Twelve-Year Longitudinal Study of Science Concept Learning
Kinship and Cognition
Quantity judgments and individuation
Précis of Relevance
Children's use of mutual exclusivity to constrain the meanings of words
Categories and induction in young children
The Mutual Exclusivity Bias in Children's Word Learning
The Large‐Scale Structure of Semantic Networks
A cross-linguistic study of early word meaning
Meaningful learning
Vocabulary Development
Children’s Initial Understanding of the Related Meanings of Polysemous Noun-Verb Pairs
Distributional signatures of superordinate nouns
How words matter
Reconstructing Kinship, or, the Pragmatics of Kin Talk
Speaker perspective and reference in young children
The Nature of Folk-Botanical Life Forms
Spiders in and out of Court, or, 'the long legs of the law
A teoria subjacente aos mapas conceituais e como elabora-los e usa-los
A dynamic systems model of cognitive and language growth
| Unique citing works | 58 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,41 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2026 (42) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |