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1、HowChildrenLearntheMeaningsofWordsPaulBloomHowdochildrenlearnthattheword"dog"refersnottoallfour-leggedanimals,andnotjusttoRalph,buttoallmembersofaparticularspecies?Howdotheylearnthemeaningsofverbslike"think,"adjectiveslike"good,"andwordsforabstractentitiessuchas"mortgage"and"story"?T
2、heacquisitionofwordmeaningisoneofthefundamentalissuesinthestudyofmind.AccordingtoPaulBloom,childrenlearnwordsthroughsophisticatedcognitiveabilitiesthatexistforotherpurposes.Theseincludetheabilitytoinferothers'intentions,theabilitytoacquireconcepts,anappreciationofsyntacticstructure,a
3、ndcertaingenerallearningandmemoryabilities.Althoughotherresearchershaveassociatedwordlearningwithsomeofthesecapacities,Bloomisthefirsttoshowhowacompleteexplanationrequiresallofthem.Theacquisitionofevensimplenounsrequiresrichconceptual,social,andlinguisticcapacitiesinteractingincomple
4、xways.Thisbookrequiresnobackgroundinpsychologyorlinguisticsandiswritteninaclear,engagingstyle.Topicsincludetheeffectsoflanguageonspatialreasoning,theoriginofessentialistbeliefs,andtheyoungchild'sunderstandingofrepresentationalart.Thebookshouldappealtogeneralreadersinterestedinlanguag
5、eandcognitionaswellastoresearchersinthefield.SeriesForewordThisseriesinlearning,development,andconceptualchangeincludesstate-of-the-artreferenceworks,seminalbook-lengthmonographs,andtextsonthedevelopmentofconceptsandmentalstructures.Itspanslearninginalldomainsofknowledge,fromsyntaxto
6、geometrytothesocialworld,andisconcernedwithallphasesofdevelopment,frominfancythroughadulthood.Theseriesintendstoengagesuchfundamentalquestionsas:Thenatureandlimitsoflearningandmaturation:theinfluenceoftheenvironment,ofinitialstructures,andofmaturationalchangesinthenervoussystemonhuman
7、development;learnabilitytheory;theproblemofinduction;domain-specificconstraintsondevelopment.Thenatureofconceptualchange:conceptualorganizationandcon-ceptualchangeinchilddevelopment,intheacquisitionofexper-tise,andinthehistoryofscience.LilaGleitmanSusanCareyElissaNewportElizabethSpelk
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