The Importance of Being Interpreted: Grounded Words and Children’s Relational Reasoning

Although young children typically have trouble reasoning relationally, they are aided by the presence of “relational” words (e.g., Gentner and Rattermann, 1991). They also reason well about commonly experienced event structures (e.g., Fivush, 1984). To explore what makes a word “relational” and ther...

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Main Authors: Son, Ji Y., Smith, Linda B., Goldstone, Robert L., Leslie, Michelle
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Research Foundation 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3296077/