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The Role of Analogical Comparison in Theory of Mind Development

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Humans possess the ability to infer and track mental states, which allows for successful interaction in the social world. The collection of processes and representations that makes this possible is referred to as a theory-of-mind (ToM). A large body of work has examined how these abilities develop from infancy to...

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learning, social cognition, cognitive development, comparison, analogical reasoning, and theory of mind

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Psychology

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Christian Hosos

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

01/09/2019

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01/09/2019

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2017-01-01

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Dissertation
Learning about the Structure of Scales: Adverbial Modification and the Acquisition of the Semantics of Gradable Adjectives

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This work investigates children's early semantic representations of gradable adjectives (GAs) and proposes that infants perform a probabilistic analysis of the input to learn about abstract differences within this category. I first demonstrate that children as young as age three distinguish between relative (e.g., 'big', 'long'), maximum standard absolute (e.g.,...

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semantics, word learning, comparison, language acquisition, adjectives, and adverbs

Subject:

Linguistics

Creator:

Kristen L Syrett

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

08/14/2018

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08/14/2018

Date Created:

2007-08-22

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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