On Relational Meaning: The Acquisition of Verb Meaning

Dedre Gentner

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The acquisition of verb meaning is discussed and compared with the acquisition of simple noun meaning.Evidence presented from three experiments with children and adults indicates that (1) verbal meanings are relatively slow to be acquired; (2) the acquisition of verb meaning involves the gradual addition of semantic components; and (3) verbs are used by children and adults with greater breadth of application then are simple nouns.These findings are discussed in terms of the kinds of meaning conveyed ty nouns and verbs: simple nouns refer to real world entities and verbs convey relationships among entities.:ruthor/AA) #44#31g4g#31c**#########*#############*#######**444,4,444$#*###4#44*444444,314314

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1972Naming and Necessity 1976Basic objects in natural categories 1975Cognitive representations of semantic categories.2010The meaning of ‘meaning’1976Language and Perception 1963The Structure of a Semantic Theory 1973Structure and Strategy in Learning to Talk 1973ON THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF PERCEPTUAL AND SEMANTIC CATEGORIES11This research was supported in part by a grant to the author (under her former name, Eleanor Rosch Heider) from the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry # G67-392, in part by funds made available to the Child Study Center of Brown University from the Grant Foundation and from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Collaborative Project (Ph-43-68-13), and in part by research funds made available by the University of California at Berkeley (220 Grant #K9PF-429). I wish to thank Karl G. Heider for his help in the field in West Irian (Indonesian New Guinea), Dr. Robert Olton for assistance in carrying out Experiment 3, and Keith Burton, Randy Street, and Peter Lewitt who assisted with Experiment 4. Experiment 4 was performed with Dr. Richard Millward while the author was a research associate at Brown University.

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