On the Evidence for Prelinguistic Concepts

Language acquisition is often said to be a process of mapping words into pre-existing concepts. If that is right, then we ought to be able to obtain experimental evidence for the existence of concepts in prelinguistic children, as intended in the work of Paul Quinn. This paper argues that Quinn'...

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Main Author: Christopher GAUKER
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Basque Country 2010-01-01
Series:Theoria
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Online Access:http://www.ehu.es/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/563