The course of early lexical development: A review and an interpretation1

Abstract

Some recent findings concerning the early acquisition of word meaning are reviewed. It is argued that these findings can best be interpreted by postulating that the very young child uses scripts in order to mentally represent events in his environment. The development of word meaning is then viewed as occurring through the partitioning of these scripts by the child into their constituent elements, with the prototypes that are disembedded from these scripts providing the ontogenetic source of the meanings of object names.

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