Child-basic object categories and early lexical development.

By Carolyn B. Mervis. 1987

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF OBJECT CATEGORIZATION IN YOUNG CHILDREN: HIERARCHICAL INCLUSIVENESS, AGE, PERCEPTUAL ATTRIBUTE, AND GROUP VERSUS INDIVIDUAL ANALYSES (2010, background): “Children’s first lexical productions tend to be basic level nouns (Mervis, 1987).”
Object Naming and Later Lexical Development: From Baby Bottle to Beer Bottle. (2008, background): “For example, as long as children do not understand what the slot on top of the piggy bank is used for, they will continue to call the piggy bank ball (Mervis’, 1987).”
Semantic Cognition: A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach (2004, background): “Mervis (Mervis, 1987b; Mervis & Rosch, 1981; Mervis, Catlin, & Rosch, 1976) extended the prototype theory to account for data from lexical acquisition.”
Word meaning in minds and machines (2020, background): “The requirement to use words the way adults do can act as a stimulus for children to distinguish objects in the world a certain way (Mervis, 1987).”
Setters and samoyeds: the emergence of subordinate level categories as a basis for inductive inference in preschool-age children. (1997, result): “consistent with claims regarding the developmental primacy of basic level categories (Mervis, 1987; Rosch, Mervis, Gray, Johnson, & Boyes-Braem, 1976), and, with the position that al-”
Précis of Semantic Cognition: A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach (2008, background): “Mervis, 1987 ). The main support for this view stems from two sources.”
Two-year-olds will name artifacts by their functions. (2000, background): “It seems puzzling that young children should ignore this information in using artifact names, particularly when they are otherwise known to be highly attentive to how artifacts function (e.g., Corrigan & Schommer, 1984; Gentner, 1978; Mervis, 1987; Nelson, 1973).”
Looks Aren't Everything: 24-Month-Olds' Willingness to Accept Unexpected Labels (2007, background): “In fact, in diary data from her son’s first 2 years, Mervis (1987; Mervis, Pani, & Pani, 2003) found that he often ignored corrections from his parents, behaving as if “categories should not be formed on the basis of adult labeling patterns alone” (Mervis, 1987, p. 213).”
Kitchen Russian: Cross-linguistic differences and first-language object naming by Russian–English bilinguals* (2010, background): “Nelson, 1974), recent work suggests that some word meanings can broaden over time and others can narrow, depending on the complexity of the category and the features that must be attended to in order to master adult patterns of use (Ameel et al., 2008; Mervis, 1987).”
Separating the sheep from the goats: Differentiating global categories ☆ (1991, methodology): “The notion of function has sometimes been used as a bridging link (Mervis, 1987; Nelson, 1973).”