Names for Things: A Study in Human Learning

von John Macnamara

288 Seiten, Taschenbuch, ab 18 Jahre

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The book is concerned with the child's acquisition of names (by which is meant words that refer to objects - including proper names, common nouns in some uses, and pronouns in some uses). Four chapters in the book's first section, Matters Mainly Psychological, describe empirical observations that explore how a child copes with the fact that many different name-like words can be applied to a single object. A second major section, Matters Mainly Linguistic, contains chapters on phonology, the learning of grammatical categories, the definite and indefinite articles, and the plural. A third section, Matters Mainly Philosophical, focuses entirely on the complex issues of reference and meaning. A final chapter reflects on the implications of the book for developmental psychology.An MIT Press/Bradford Book.

• Reihe: Bradford Books
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Kognitive Psychologie
• ISBN: 9780262630924
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.1984
• Größe: 226 x 150 mm
• Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC
• Empf. Lesealter: ab 18 Jahre