Categorization and Naming in Children: Problems of InductionIn this landmark work on early conceptual and lexical development, Ellen Markman explores the fascinating problem of how young children succeed at the task of inducing concepts. Backed by extensive experimental results, she challenges the fundamental assumptions of traditional theories of language acquisition and proposes that a set of constraints or principles of induction allows children to efficiently integrate knowledge and to induce information about new examples of familiar categories. Ellen M. Markman is Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. |
Contents
Acquisition of Category Terms | 19 |
The Internal Structure of Categories | 39 |
Chapter 4 | 59 |
Natural Kinds | 87 |
Chapter 6 | 113 |
Chapter 7 | 137 |
Indirect Evidence for the Mutual | 161 |
Mutual Exclusivity | 187 |
Chapter 10 | 217 |
References | 235 |
Common terms and phrases
4-year-olds acquisition adults animals arbitrary categories argue assumption basic level categories basis Callanan cate category label category members category membership chapter chil child class-inclusion hierarchies class-inclusion relations classical view classification cognitive collective nouns common category concepts contrast count nouns criteria Cue validity defined dren egories evidence example exemplars experimental familiar object family resemblance structure form class Gelman and Markman given gories hoc categories hypothesis inclusion inductive inferences intensional definition interpret language language acquisition level of categorization mass nouns meaning Medin Mervis mutual exclusivity principle natural kind categories nouns and adjectives novel label novel object novel term object categories object labels organization ostensive definition part-whole perceptual similarity picture predicted proactive inhibition problem problem of induction procedure properties questions refer richly structured categories Rosch sort strategy subjects subordinate superordinate level task taxonomic thematic relations tion unfamiliar violate mutual exclusivity whole object young children