Innateness, abstract names, and syntactic cues in How Children Learn the Meanings of Words
Bloom masterfully captures the state-of-the-art in the study of lexical acquisition. He also exposes the extent of our ignorance about the learning of names for non-observables. HCLMW adopts an innatist position without adopting modularity of mind; however, it seems likely that modularity is needed to bridge the gap between object names and the rest of the lexicon.
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Vol 32
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pp. 338-339
1989 ◽
Vol 28
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pp. 270-272
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