Early Category and Concept Development: Making Sense of the Blooming, Buzzing Confusion

Contents......Page 21
Foreword: Categories, Cognitive Development, and Cognitive Science......Page 7
Preface......Page 15
Acknowledgments......Page 19
Contributors......Page 23
1. Issues in the Early Development of Concepts and Categories: An Introduction......Page 27
PART I: CONCEPTS AND CATEGORIES BEFORE THE EMERGENCE OF LANGUAGE......Page 49
2. Chunking Language Input to Find Patterns......Page 51
3. Concepts Are Not Just for Objects: Categorization of Spatial Relation Information by Infants......Page 74
4. Parsing Objects into Categories: Infants’ Perception and Use of Correlated Attributes......Page 101
5. Conceptual Categorization......Page 127
6. Principles of Developmental Change in Infants’ Category Formation......Page 156
7. Parts, Motion, and the Development of the Animate-Inanimate Distinction in Infancy......Page 183
8. Commentary on Part I: Unresolved Issues in Infant Categorization......Page 217
PART II: CONCEPTS AND CATEGORIES DURING EARLY LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT......Page 235
9. Links between Object Categorization and Naming: Origins and Emergence in Human Infants......Page 237
10. Transaction of Child Cognitive-Linguistic Abilities and Adult Input in the Acquisition of Lexical Categories at the Basic and Subordinate Levels......Page 266
11. Making an Ontology: Cross-linguistic Evidence......Page 299
12. Words, Kinds, and Causal Powers: A Theory Theory Perspective on Early Naming and Categorization......Page 327
13. Theory-Based Categorization in Early Childhood......Page 354
14. The Acquisition and Use of Implicit Categories in Early Development......Page 384
15. Commentary on Part II: Abilities and Assumptions Underlying Conceptual Development......Page 408
16. Final Commentary: Conceptual Development from Origins to Asymptotes......Page 427
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