TY - JOUR
T1 - Acquiring new word meaning
T2 - What does it tell us about development
AU - Yussen, Steven R.
PY - 1984/6
Y1 - 1984/6
N2 - R. J. Sternberg (1984, Developmental Review, 4, 113-138) offers a thoughtful and provocative essay on how individuals acquire meanings for novel or unfamiliar nouns. The Sternberg essay, however, is incomplete on a number of grounds. By stressing general processes and specific knowledge as critical components in the acquisition of verbal concepts, for example, it overlooks two logically complementary categories-specific processes and general knowledge-and the role these play in the acquisitions in question. A second concern is that the paper blurs distinctions among development, short-term learning, and the origin/acquisition of individual differences. Finally, Sternberg is encouraged to frame the specific phenomenon described here within the context of a larger theory of intellectual development and to indicate what else this specific model can be used to explain.
AB - R. J. Sternberg (1984, Developmental Review, 4, 113-138) offers a thoughtful and provocative essay on how individuals acquire meanings for novel or unfamiliar nouns. The Sternberg essay, however, is incomplete on a number of grounds. By stressing general processes and specific knowledge as critical components in the acquisition of verbal concepts, for example, it overlooks two logically complementary categories-specific processes and general knowledge-and the role these play in the acquisitions in question. A second concern is that the paper blurs distinctions among development, short-term learning, and the origin/acquisition of individual differences. Finally, Sternberg is encouraged to frame the specific phenomenon described here within the context of a larger theory of intellectual development and to indicate what else this specific model can be used to explain.
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U2 - 10.1016/0273-2297(84)90002-9
DO - 10.1016/0273-2297(84)90002-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:48549108016
SN - 0273-2297
VL - 4
SP - 139
EP - 144
JO - Developmental Review
JF - Developmental Review
IS - 2
ER -