Concept Development and the Development of Word Meaning

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction:Historical Trends of Research in Concept Development and the Development of Word Meaning

      • W. Wannenmacher, Th. B. Seiler

      Pages 1-14

3. General Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Word Meaning and Word Recognition

      • J. Engelkamp

      Pages 17-33

   3. The Acquisition of Word Knowledge: Gradual Learning or Sudden Reorganization?

      • R. F. Cromer

      Pages 34-53

   4. Cognitive Development: Schemata, Systems and the Structural Puzzle

      • H. Aebli

      Pages 54-64

4. Linguistic and Metalinguistic Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. Convention and Contrast in Acquiring the Lexicon

      • E. V. Clark

      Pages 67-89

   3. Meaningful or Meaningless: Children’s Judgments

      • J. Berthoud-Papandropoulou, A. Sinclair

      Pages 90-99

5. Conceptual Constraints

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. Semantic Inferences and the Acquisition of Word Meaning

      • F. C. Keil

      Pages 103-124

   3. Constraints on the Meanings of Natural Kind Terms

      • S. Carey

      Pages 126-143

6. An Epistemological Point of View in the Discussion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-146

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   2. Young Children and Social Knowledge

      • H. G. Furth

      Pages 147-156

   3. From “Outer” to “Inner” Reality: On the Meaning of Some Moral Words

      • G. Szagun

      Pages 157-172

   4. The Conceptual Basis for Language

      • K. Nelson

      Pages 173-188

7. Theory and Research on Action Words

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-190

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   2. The Early Acquisition and Development of the Meanings of Action-Related Words

      • M. D. Barrett

      Pages 191-209

   3. What Do Word Meanings Reveal About Conceptual Development?

      • J. Huttenlocher, P. Smiley, H. Ratner

      Pages 210-233

   4. Some Aspects of Verb Meaning

      • H. Hagendorf

      Pages 234-244

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.

• Development
• Semantik
• Sprachpsychologie
• anthropology
• cognition
• concept
• foundation
• idea
• linguistics
• organ
• psycholinguistics
• psychology
• psychology of language
• semantics
• time

• Institut für Psychologie der Technischen Hochschule Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Fed. Rep. of Germany

  Thomas B. Seiler, Wolfgang Wannenmacher

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