Order of acquisition of subordinate-, basic-, and superordinate-level categories.

By Carolyn B. Mervis, M. A. Crisafi. 1982

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One cow does not an animal make: young children can extend novel words at the superordinate level. (2001, background): “These are among the earliest superordinate words children use (Anglin, 1977; Mc-Namara, 1982; Mervis & Crisafi, 1982 ).”
The role of theories in conceptual coherence. (1985, background): “It is known that young children have difficulty learning and using superordinate concepts (Horton & Markman, 1980; Mervis & Crisafi, 1982; Rosch et al., 1976), which is not surprising, given their loose structure.”
Infant's Inductive Generalization of Bodily, Motion, and Sensory Properties to Animals and People (2006, background): “E-mail: diane.poulindubois@concordia.ca contrast found at that level of inclusiveness (Mervis & Crisafi, 1982; Mervis & Rosch, 1981).”
A Bayesian framework for concept learning (1999, background): “…to all dogs, or all labradors, or all black labradors, or just Rover himself, etc.)Based on work by Brown (1958), Rosch et al. (1980), and Mervis & Crisa (1982),Markman (1989) suggested the even stronger constraint that children (and in general,151 adults, as well) assume a new word maps…”
The Ignorant Led by the Blind: A Hybrid Human–Machine Vision System for Fine-Grained Categorization (2014, background): “Fine-grained categorization, also known as subordinate categorization in psychology literature (Rosch 1999; Mervis and Crisafi 1982; Biederman et al. 1999), has emerged in recent years as a problem of great interest to the computer vision community, with applications including species…”
Measuring L2 Lexical Growth Using Hypernymic Relationships (2009, background): “These mean values demonstrate that L2 learners move from more concrete terms to more abstract terms in a manner similar to L1 learners (Berlin et al., 1974; Brown, 1958; Mervis & Crisafi, 1982; Murphy, 2004).”
Does object naming aid 12-month-olds' formation of novel object categories? (2006, methodology): “Stimuli included 14 different three-dimensional objects representing two different levels of category abstraction modelled after novel categories used by Mervis & Crisafi (1982).”