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The goal of this research is to clarify the development of metaphor by using structure-mapping theory to make distinctions among kinds of metaphors. In particular, it is proposed that children can understand metaphors based on shared ob...
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Semantic Constraints on Lexical Categories William Nagy and Dedre Gentner
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Children a re prodigious word learners . able to gain substantial information abou t a word's meaning o n the basis of even a single encounter with the word in context . T w o experiments a r e reported which test the hypothesis that th...
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Similarity Involving Attributes and Relations: Judgments of Similarity and Difference Are Not Inverses
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Conventional wisdom and previous research suggest that similarity judgments and difference judgments are inverses of one another. An exception to this rule arises when both relational similarity and attributional similarity are consider...
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