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Srinivasan, Mahesh; Snedeker, Jesse – Language Learning and Development, 2014
How do children resolve the problem of indeterminacy when learning a new word? By one account, children adopt a "taxonomic assumption" and expect the word to denote only members of a particular taxonomic category. According to one version of this constraint, young children should represent polysemous words that label multiple kinds--for…
Descriptors: Classification, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Child Language