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Concept Development and the Development of Word Meaning

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  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. Thomas B. Seiler

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

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  2. Wolfgang Wannenmacher

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

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Part of the book series: Springer Series in Language and Communication (SSLAN, volume 12)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  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
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Thomas B. Seiler, Wolfgang Wannenmacher

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Concept Development and the Development of Word Meaning

  • Editors: Thomas B. Seiler, Wolfgang Wannenmacher

  • Series Title: Springer Series in Language and Communication

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69000-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-69002-0Published: 07 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-69000-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0172-620X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 349

  • Topics: Psychology, general

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