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Learning from Words
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Jennifer Lackey
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-18 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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Testimony is an invaluable source of knowledge. We rely on the reports of those around us for everything from the ingredients in our food and medicine to the id
Learning from Words
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Jennifer Lackey
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-28 - Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

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Jennifer Lackey reshapes the vigorous current debate on testimony by showing that the standard view of the transmission of knowledge by testimony is fundamental
How Children Learn the Meanings of Words
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Paul Bloom
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-01-25 - Publisher: MIT Press

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How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they
Teaching Languages to Young Learners
Language: en
Pages: 16
Authors: Lynne Cameron
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-03-15 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book will develop readers' understanding of children are being taught a foreign language.
Words, Thoughts, and Theories
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Alison Gopnik
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-09-01 - Publisher: MIT Press

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Words, Thoughts, and Theories articulates and defends the "theory theory" of cognitive and semantic development, the idea that infants and young children, like