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From: rlw@philabs.philips.COM (Richard Wexelblat)
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Subject: Re: Natural Kinds
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It is amusing and instructive to study and speculate on children's language
and conceptualization.  (Wow! That construct's almost Swiftean!)  For those
who would read further in this domain, I recommend:

Brown, Roger
A First Language -- The Early Stages
Harvard Univ. Press, 1973

MacNamara, John
Names for Things -- A Study of Human Learning
MIT Press, 1984