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Children's conceptions of dreams
(Elsevier, 1992)
Children's conceptions of dreams are an important component of their developing understanding of the mind. Although there is much that even adults do not understand about the nature of dreams, most adults in Western society ...
Inductions from novel categories: The role of language and conceptual structure
(Elsevier, 1990-04)
Young children expect members of a familiar category to share nonobvious properties. The present experiments were designed to determine whether children expect unfamiliar objects with the same novel label to share nonobvious ...
Conceptual and lexical hierarchies in young children
(Elsevier, 1989-10)
Linguistic form and conceptual level both play a role in the structure of adult lexical hierarchies. The present studies examined how these factors might affect acquisition. In their linguistic form, labels can be single ...