What's in a Name? A Study of How Children Learn Common and Proper NamesErica Baker, John Macnamara1974-06-01articleChild Development405 citationsclosedNo readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.Language Development and DisordersReading and Literacy DevelopmentChild and Animal Learning DevelopmentAbstractYour use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available atCitations in this libraryStored only when both papers are in the corpus — 405 citations exist upstream.References1947Manual of Child Psychology1972Cognitive basis of language learning in infants.2005Language development in children.Cited by1991Ontological categories guide young children's inductions of word meaning: Object terms and substance terms1992Young children and adults use lexical principles to learn new nouns.2005PRIMIR: A Developmental Framework of Infant Speech Processing1990The importance of knowing a dodo is a bird: Categories and inferences in 2-year-old children.1984Cognitive Development1984Names for things : A study in human learning. By John Macnamara. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 273. $17.50.1999Carrot-Eaters and Creature-Believers: The Effects of Lexicalization on Children's Inferences About Social Categories1991The acquisition of gender: what Spanish children tell us