Abstract
Publisher Summary Words are tools for expressing and interpreting meanings. They both signify external objects or events and symbolize interior meanings or concepts. Words are arbitrary and conventional. Their meanings are strictly determined by social agreement, not by any similarity between a word and what it represents. To study how children learn words, then, is to study how arbitrary vocal forms become associated with external referents and with related concepts in the course of social exchange. This chapter defines the concepts as mental representations that specify how one should group objects or events. It describes the process of concept formation and to describe when and how words are attached to concepts. Verbal concepts, or word meanings, are those concepts which are symbolized by words. However, one's set of word meanings is not necessarily equivalent to one's set of concepts.
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