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Pragmatic and prescriptive aspects of children's categorization

✍ Scribed by Charles W. Kalish


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
181 KB
Volume
2007
Category
Article
ISSN
1520-3247

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✦ Synopsis


Categorization judgments may be right or wrong and more or less useful. When a child calls a whale "a fish," is she making an error, or just describing an interesting similarity? This chapter explores the challenges children face in learning to conform to conventions governing categorization.


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