Concept acquisition and ostensive learning: A response to professor Stemmer

Behaviorism 17 (2):141-145 (1989)
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The alternative offered by Professor Stemmer to cognitivist theories of the process whereby general terms acquire their meaning is criticised in its turn on the grounds that it presents an oversimplified view of the complex processes involved in the acquisition of word meanings

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