Black cloth hardback. Pp xii, 275. Ex university library copy with usual accompaniments but this is a square, tight, sound, clean copy with faded spine; contents crisp, bright and clean - no annotations etc. Image/further info. available upon request. [We welcome enquiries by e-mail - click on 'Ask Bookseller a Question'; or by 'phone - click on 'More Books from this Seller'].

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Title: Names for Things. a Study of Human Learning.
Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts / London England
Publication Date: 1981
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0262131692
ISBN 13: 9780262131698
Binding: Cloth Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good

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Four chapters in the book's first section, Matters Mainly Psychological, describe empirical observations that explore how a child copes with the fact that many different name-like words can be applied to a single object.

A second major section, Matters Mainly Linguistic, contains chapters on phonology, the learning of grammatical categories, the definite and indefinite articles, and the plural. A third section, Matters Mainly Philosophical, focuses entirely on the complex issues of reference and meaning. A final chapter reflects on the implications of the book for developmental psychology.

John Macnamara is a world-recognized developmental psychologist and Professor of Psychology at McGill University. An MIT Press/Bradford Book.

About the Author

John Macnamara is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science, McGill University.

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