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The other way to learn the meaning of a word

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2002

Sam Scott
Sam Scott
Affiliation:
Cognitive Science Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, [email protected] http://www.chat.carleton.ca/~sscott2/sam
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Abstract

Bloom's book can be viewed as a long argument for an anti-Whorfian conclusion. According to Bloom, word learning is usually a process of mapping new words to pre-existing concepts. But an exception to this generalization – the learning of words from linguistic context – poses a problem for Bloom's anti-Whorfian argument.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 6 , December 2001 , pp. 1117 - 1118
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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