Ontological categories guide young children's inductions of word meaning: Object terms and substance terms☆
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The research reported here was part of the first author's doctoral dissertation in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. We thank Molly Potter, Sandy Waxman, Ned Block, Paul Bloom, Debbie Zaitchik, and Sandeep Prasada for their helpful discussion and comments on earlier drafts. We also thank three anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and criticisms. We appreciate the assistance of Laura Kotovsky, Jim Melton, Nancy Turner, Jean Piper, and Thomas Soja in the testing of subjects and the data analysis.